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Adam Neely

@adamneely.bsky.social

Bassist, musician, creator ™️

5,210 Followers  |  25 Following  |  72 Posts  |  Joined: 29.08.2023  |  1.9009

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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.

28.07.2025 06:38 — 👍 25    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

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.

28.07.2025 06:37 — 👍 21    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

I find it all just so sad, really.

28.07.2025 05:46 — 👍 84    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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.

28.07.2025 05:45 — 👍 184    🔁 19    💬 8    📌 5
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if you like nerds in pajamas playing electro fusion I have just the video clip for you

22.07.2025 18:47 — 👍 60    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

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.

22.07.2025 18:42 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

fuck it, sungazer is a blues band now

05.07.2025 18:57 — 👍 64    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0

I peaked with that one tbh

14.06.2025 19:48 — 👍 46    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

heretics

07.06.2025 03:21 — 👍 61    🔁 2    💬 3    📌 0

I am very smart, and like many chord sequences.

-Dave Weigel

31.05.2025 03:55 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I have an EP coming out June 13th with Lau Noah - presave it here!

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23.05.2025 02:02 — 👍 73    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 1
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Canada tour vlog up now on YouTube/nebula

Watch me learn swear words in Québécois

13.05.2025 17:38 — 👍 73    🔁 0    💬 4    📌 0
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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!

12.05.2025 02:21 — 👍 103    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1

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

12.05.2025 02:20 — 👍 25    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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

29.04.2025 19:12 — 👍 47    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

100 tenor sax players at the smalls jam vs a gorilla

29.04.2025 16:25 — 👍 113    🔁 4    💬 7    📌 1
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Shredding across the UK/Ireland this summer with Maddie Ashman

25.04.2025 16:13 — 👍 29    🔁 2    💬 3    📌 1

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.

23.04.2025 22:05 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

want

19.04.2025 03:30 — 👍 60    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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We’re playing some gigs in China and Japan

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

17.04.2025 22:10 — 👍 76    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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We’re Sungazer. We’re here to play time signatures at you. We’re sorry.

04.04.2025 18:25 — 👍 57    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

Trump:
las malvinas son argentinas

02.04.2025 21:41 — 👍 30    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks for coming!

02.04.2025 08:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Source?

01.04.2025 17:13 — 👍 23    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

Kraftwerk is just 4 guys standing there in front of podiums for an hour and a half and it was AWESOME.

13.03.2025 18:50 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

I never liked the fact that the industry was supported by alcohol sales, but that was a big factor.

07.03.2025 02:45 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It’s a confluence of a lot of factors, no easy solution.

High transportation/lodging costs is a big one.

Another is that people don’t drink as much alcohol post-pandemic, so businesses recoup operating expenses through ticket sales instead (cutting into band income).

07.03.2025 02:43 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Yes, the same way that you expect business owners to make their employees sleep in their cars so they don’t have to spend money on lodging and can save the business money.

07.03.2025 02:36 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Looks very reasonable.

Guarantee/walkout looks pretty normal for Ireland for venues of that size.

The decision to do all ages was a huge $$ expense, and IMO carnets aren’t worth the hassle (we just rent the backline), but expenses were reasonable too.

Music is expensive as fuck.

07.03.2025 00:21 — 👍 17    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Seen, 12tone saying quartal chord

14.02.2025 21:31 — 👍 22    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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