Following the bouncing musical note has never been the focus of any true conspiracy-minded truther. We know that when the narrative reaches the masses, their plan is already in place.

So what’s really happening with the release of all these files. Some organic anomaly?

Not a chance. Which leaves two possible scenarios.

A) (and this would be preferred, but not likely) Trump is setting out to do exactly what he promised to do, draining the swamp. The one thing many of his staunch supporters didn’t anticipate is that they’d be thrown under the bus to prove he’s just another player and has abandoned MAGA.

In the film Donny Brasco, they’d have never been able to take down the Bonanno Crime family from the outside, or went at them head-on. They had agent Brasco pose as an insider. This often meant confusing the hell out of his allies, his family… So again, this would be preferred, but not likely.

B) This is the great reset they’ve been talking/warning us about for years. I’ve been wondering, ‘how will they do it?’, but that blurry mystery is coming into focus with the Epstein Files.  By making everyone lose trust in everything, lose 100% faith in our system, our government, our institutions and world leaders, this assimilates into public consciousness where the outcome is fairly predictable. Good people will want to stop paying taxes to these criminals. This is what they want, for it would surely shut down the economy and pave way for a UBI, (Universal Basic Income) Digital Currency, and Digital ID… and Tada! So these new Tales from the Crypt, coupled with a 38 trillion dollar national debt are their new smart weapons… paving way to Smart cities, 100% 24 hr. surveillance, and a holy host of new characters to ‘lead’… making our old ‘leaders’ look saintly by comparison. Same owners, different avatars, new prison.

In the beginning of my career as songwriter, I had four tools: a pencil, notebook, cassette deck and of course, guitar.  That was it.  I’d go to the library for inspiration.  Moon Martin taught me his trick of writing down lines that you hear, read, or come to mind… so I started doing this.  Larry McMurtry to Stephen King to John Fante, William Shakespeare to Anne Sexton and Langston Hughes.  It didn’t matter who, my mind would read with a little headlamp on in search of lines that stood out to work in song.

Making records was another school inadvertently taught.  In 1983 I joined a very brief band of LA session musicians… let’s see it was Mike Baird-drums, Alan Pasqua-keyboards, Dennis Belfield-bass, Kevin Dukes-lead guitar and myself as lead vocalist and guitarist.  Alan and I were the main songwriters, but the band all had much more experience than I at making the actual records.  It became apparent to me very quickly that, in deciding studio parts, arguing for them or against them,  you didn’t get away with saying things like ‘i don’t know… i just don’t like it’.  There had to be a comprehensive explanation for why it didn’t work.  I have to say that taught me a lot about the democratic process and about record-making in general.

A couple of weeks ago, after forgetting I had subscribed to Suno a month or two previous, I turned it on and began diving in.  Having worked for years in Logic Pro, Pro Tools, and Digital Performer, Suno made little sense to me.  It was cryptic… a video game for a beginner, not an avid pro!  But I watched a couple of videos and learned at the very least what to do with finished, undemo’d songs.

I have to say, after my fourth completed song, it is the single most important tool I’ve used since the pencil and paper.

Songs I’ve had for many years, and would have never seen the light of day now have a life.  To go the old route, i’d have had to book a studio in Nashville, hire 5 musicians, at least 2 singers, one for lead and another for background vocals, a recording engineer who would likely mix as well.  I’d have needed a hotel room for 3-5 days, a plane roundtrip from Los Angeles.  Approximate total cost?  about 10-15k for 3 songs.

This is why the songs were doomed an abandoned life in a box until someone sent them to the eternal dumpster.  Why?  Because I wasn’t confident they were good enough!

The one I will share with you I spent a few days on.  It was intended to be a pop/neo soul track.  I have dozens of Suno versions of it this way that I may put up for fun…  But… frustrated in not getting the exact right performance desired, I took it in another direction.

It’s amazing to me how parallel country music and soul/r&b are.  They have identical structures, breakdowns, lyric sensibilities.  So this one transformed into country much nicer than I would have believed.  For my ears, it’s a hit song, … and believe me I can be my own worst critic, but this sounds like a follow-up single to Ella Langley’s ‘Choosin’ Texas’.

And regardless of whether I’m right about that part, the fact is that it lives now.  It’s not an aborted piece of cassette tape living in a trash heap somewhere with all the unrealized potential.  Suno made this possible.  The drum sound alone… I would have had to hire an expert drummer to get this performance and sound, as well as pay a mixer to bring it home.

Now, I do understand there’s a level of this app that non-musicians and half-writers can use to get AI as kind of a co-writer.  I’m not interested in any of that.  That’s for pussies.  I’m just so excited to get my demos finished I can die a happy man.  So I’m trying to decide how to display them.  To add to soundcloud, like I have this one, showing the multiple genres made, the original demo given to Suno etc.?  I’m not sure yet.  But I am sure of one thing-

It’s fun AF.  I can take the stems now into logic, and with the multiple performances chosen, make a pretty solid demonstration of what was in my head to begin with.  Only now has something like this ever been possible.  So use it as a glorified interactive radio if you like, but to the serious songwriter it’s another tool, but one that’s blasted past the rest in light speed.

Jude

Ella Langley – Choosin’ Texas

I won’t go too deep dissecting this record because the magic honestly lies in the simplicity of the song, (written by Ella Langley, Luke Dick, Miranda Lambert and Joybeth Taylor) it’s production (Ella Langley and Ben West), and the honesty of the artist’s voice and performance.  Suffice to say it’s a perfect record.