Greetings, Friends, Family, Associates, Acquaintances, Comrades, Accomplices & Total Strangers!
Just for kicks and perhaps a little laziness, I asked ChatGPT to write a one paragraph blurb in several different voices, including Hunter S. Thompson and Nat Hentoff and although initially impressed, I was then left with a feeling of sickness (or maybe it was fear).
Then after a few moments to reflect, I thought what if this, AI, is the beginning of a transcendence? Because, really, aren't words a rather primitive and extremely overused tool anyway? What if this is our opportunity to ascend to another level of expression and communication?
Just a thought.
Wiki: Ian Moore (born August 8, 1968, in Berkeley, California, United States) is an American guitarist and singer-songwriter from Austin, Texas.
Me: Ian is absolutely on fire here. If you know about Ian then you know, and if you don't, it may be because he wanted it that way. Ian has never been one to accept a pigeonhole or remain in one artistic box for very long. Over his long career he has challenged his fans to come along for the ride which has included; the Joe Ely band, opening for The Rolling Stones and being dubbed the "next Stevie Ray" (a friend of Ian's and a title he was never interested in, which ultimately lead him to relocate to Seattle) to multiple record deals and being a master songwriter sensei. This track is so obviously an offering at the altar of the electric blues church that there is not a lot that I feel the need to say or that ChatGPT could perhaps even say better so, in the words of Joe Perry, let the music do the talkin'. Enjoy!
Just for kicks and perhaps a little laziness, I asked ChatGPT to write a one paragraph blurb in several different voices, including Hunter S. Thompson and Nat Hentoff and although initially impressed, I was then left with a feeling of sickness (or maybe it was fear).
Then after a few moments to reflect, I thought what if this, AI, is the beginning of a transcendence? Because, really, aren't words a rather primitive and extremely overused tool anyway? What if this is our opportunity to ascend to another level of expression and communication?
Just a thought.
Wiki: Ian Moore (born August 8, 1968, in Berkeley, California, United States) is an American guitarist and singer-songwriter from Austin, Texas.
Me: Ian is absolutely on fire here. If you know about Ian then you know, and if you don't, it may be because he wanted it that way. Ian has never been one to accept a pigeonhole or remain in one artistic box for very long. Over his long career he has challenged his fans to come along for the ride which has included; the Joe Ely band, opening for The Rolling Stones and being dubbed the "next Stevie Ray" (a friend of Ian's and a title he was never interested in, which ultimately lead him to relocate to Seattle) to multiple record deals and being a master songwriter sensei. This track is so obviously an offering at the altar of the electric blues church that there is not a lot that I feel the need to say or that ChatGPT could perhaps even say better so, in the words of Joe Perry, let the music do the talkin'. Enjoy!
The backing band on this track is my Bay Area neighbor and buddy, Scott Amendola, (Nels Cline, Charlie Hunter) bangin' on the drums, myself on bass, and a new edition to the Record Crew, Les Izmore on some seething rhythm guitar. Mellifluously mixed and mastered by the infamous F-Bomb at NTA Studio, South San Francisco.
