Whether you like it or not, AI will change things, and to survive, you need to adapt to the changes.

The then future Mrs. Notes and I were in a 5-piece band. We had personnel problems and the cost of living was going, but band pay wasn't. So we decided to be a duo.

Being that I play sax, flute, guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, and eventually wind synth, I made backing tracks on a Teac, 4 channel, reel-to-reel tape recorder. We mixed to cassettes and brought a lot of them to the gig. One song per cassette, on a dual cassette deck so I could go from song to song quickly.

Older musicians said I was putting other musicians out of work, and I responded that I was putting two musicians to work. We were playing smaller rooms, and making more per-person than we were in the 5 piece. Plus, we had no personnel problems.

Smaller, better sounding PA gear, MIDI, sequencers, DAWs, mp3s and quite a few other things came and went along the way. Some of the things I tried turned out to be rejects, others keepers.

Survival doesn't strictly go to the fittest, it goes to those who can adapt to the changes.

If I was in the songwriting business, I'd be studying AI. If AI ever invades the live performance arena, I'll jump on it.


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