Adam Neely

Haha, not so literally, but the idea of music connecting to you to history and community resonated with me.

We end every set with a jazz fusion cover for that reason

Just saw sinners.

That movie’s pretty good, huh?

Photo of Jim McNeely

Fare thee well, Jim McNeely.

Jim McNeely (and the Don Ellis/Mel Lewis story)

sadly expected news iverson.substack.com/p/jim-mcneely

new tune with Lau Noah called “Bones” 🏜️

musician pronouncing it sol-er

sad

That guy sucks, but the sad thing is that 10 years ago, his band was putting out great blog posts on indie touring and booking as a jazz band in markets that don’t do jazz (deep south, etc)

Inspiring stuff, abandoned the second he discovered ragebait dopamine addiction

On Instagram, there is a NYC jazz bassist who is very aggressively promoting his “BassGPT” LLM app.

I admit, I didn’t see the jazz pdf-seller to AI grifter pipeline coming, but in retrospect, it was inevitable.

I just can’t imagine people in early hip hop or jazz or EDM or whatever caring AT ALL. The main goal of nascent musical movements was to make the coolest shit, and nothing but the coolest shit.

That certainly is not the goal or the result of GenAI.

I don’t really care what they’re called. I’m just fascinated that the result of a year of this tech being out there is a community deeply anxious about the value of their work.

I find it all just so sad, really.

The sheer number of “I’m a real musician, I swear!” posts on the r/Suno subreddit is pretty sad, honestly.

Other music-related subreddits are just people sharing tips on how to make dope beats, but the main effect of making AI music seems to be deep existential anxiety of the value of your work.

if you like nerds in pajamas playing electro fusion I have just the video clip for you

The band is counting in/playing to click. The beat is being produced in a DAW. “One” is practice, not just analysis.

This kind of article is like 20 steps removed from anybody actually making music.

fuck it, sungazer is a blues band now

I peaked with that one tbh

heretics

I am very smart, and like many chord sequences.

-Dave Weigel

I have an EP coming out June 13th with Lau Noah - presave it here!

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Canada tour vlog up now on YouTube/nebula

Watch me learn swear words in Québécois

I will be doing some very fun things this summer including

1. opening for snarky puppy
2. touring east asia
3. doing 3 nights at the blue note

Come hang!

you could also say it’s pronounced like shredder Nili Brosh, touring guitarist for Deathklok, I think she’s a better reference

(there’s no way the gorilla isn’t falling asleep)

100 tenor sax players at the smalls jam vs a gorilla

Shredding across the UK/Ireland this summer with Maddie Ashman

We’re on the lineup! Sorry if that was confusing. As of right now, I don’t know if Domi/JD Beck are on it, but we will be there.

want

We’re playing some gigs in China and Japan

I hope they like notes over there, because we sure have a lot of them

We’re Sungazer. We’re here to play time signatures at you. We’re sorry.