Gerald Rabus

On Sept. 27, our world was shattered by Hurricane Helene. Many angels protected us that day. We watched in horror as our neighbors house fell forward and disappeared in the raging waters. We were trapped as a portion of roof fell across our bridge. Sadly, our friend perished.

@joekellynash I feel his pain

@shooterjennings One thing we know for sure. Algorithms don’t know what a broken heart feels like or what meeting the love of your life feels like or any other kind of emotion. Words without feeling are only words.

I’m sorry to keep it up with AI discussions but I’m genuinely intrigued at the moment. I think it’s very interesting that most of the responses to my posts about this go one of two ways: 1. I agree, I hope AI doesn’t become the only way art is made, I love real music written and played by real people and humans should continue to learn instruments (and/or this will be great for live concert ticket sales) 2. You’re just mad because, now, everyone can make music and your time as a musician in a real studio is running out There is a #3 which is generally neutral (AI is a tool but shouldn’t be the only tool) but this is far less. Everyone is entitled to their position… but it is worth saying that when I inspect the profile of most of the #2 responses they are full of AI generated songs… which makes sense in regards to their response. They’re defending their new found ability to make art with AI when they previously couldn’t. Assuming all the #2 aren’t AI bot accounts, it would seem two sides of the art wall are forming. I wonder where this will take us next…

@KellyCline86 She just had to say it

The first thing my mom said when she saw my bad haircut was “I hope you didn’t have to pay for that.”

@wlgolden @WKRN @oakridgeboys @CountryMusic @opry @countrymusichof @Nashville The whole story is amazing, and new artists could learn important things from it as an example for their own music journeys. Particularly when it comes to the fans. Without fans, may as well just cut grass for a living.

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@KellyCline86 At least pretzels aren’t as bad for you as other crunchy snacks.

Hello, my name is Kelly, and I’m addicted to these. The first step is to admit you have a problem, right?!

@shooterjennings AI will help you write songs based on current trends, so without creativity, you’ll be at the mercy of whatever sources it uses. I feel bad for the people like photographers, writers and engineers, printers, musicians and artists who might be made obsolete.

I was shocked this last week to start to realize that AI’s use in music is much more pervasive than I thought. I’ve seen a lot of people making acoustic demos of songs they wrote and then feeding them into Suno or other models to make full band demos. I guess I’m more isolated from it on the daily in the studio as it’s never used when we record… so this revelation came as a shock of sorts. I don’t have a problem with AI being used as a tool at all, I’m using it to help me convert a game I programmed in another language to one that will work on phones. It has great use… But to see how commonplace it is to lean on it through multiple layers of the artistic creative and conjuration process made me concerned. Time to double down if you’re doing it the old way, I guess! Signed, the old man

@KellyCline86 @doc_1029 youtu.be/Ge2fw0tJJlE?si…

@doc_1029 One day at a time, brother. It does get better and easier.

My life is about to change and I am not even going to lie, I am sad. I feel so sad today. I can't seem to get myself out of this funk.

@KellyCline86 I’m fortunate to not have to do that regularly anymore.

One more day to set an alarm this week….

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