Music
Music is where my creative journey began. As a child I had always loved listening to music, but I would never have guessed at that point I would end up writing songs and making records for ten years from 1965-1975. What I didn’t realize at the time was that music was just the first of my many sojourns into creative storytelling. I look back on that time as a golden age of experimentation and emergence. The sixties revolution was in full swing and music was the soundtrack for those changes. And everything was new. Nothing had been tried and the variety of blues, rock and roll, classical, jazz and folk approaches that emerged during that time set the tone for all that was to come.
I have always said that I was a good but not great guitar player and a good but not great singer. The reason I could hang out with really talented, genius musicians all those years is that I could write. It began as simple comments on what was happening in my life and ended up being my first expressions in story form of my observations on the world. As I listen to all the albums now I can hear the three or four songs on each album that got close to that goal. I also heard a continuity of thought and sound that is easy to see now but at the time escaped me.
I also produced a timeline that featured the bands and the commercial singles and special commissions I wrote and produced.
Lastly, many years latter triggered by the events of 9-11 I began writing again. I did not have any fantasy about going back into the music business. These stories were for me, the way it had begun all those years ago just me and my guitar. You can find that collection below titled "Wolf Tales." These simple demos sat in the files for 20+years until I rediscovered them when I began assembling this tome. I was fine with what I found originally, but the Kosmos was not going to leave it there.
This is a longer story that I will go into later but needless to say I was introduced to the SUNO AI Music Creation Platform by a friend. For fun I uploaded "The Prayer" (just me and my guitar) Suno asked a few questions about the structure and tone I was looking for and then whirled away for about 3 minutes and then spit out a record quality track, fully rendered with full instrumentation and my voice never sounding better. All I can say it was a "perfect" version of the song that I had never been able to get to with my human limitations. Suno AI on the other hand was unlimited in possibilities and conditions emerging from its neural net structure.
The gift of being given access to the essence of what these songs represented to me as the writer was unmeasurable in my old age with one foot out the door into the subtle realm. Wolf Tales has been transformed into a collection of the best of my songwriting and more. The 'lost tapes" of Sweet Pain fully restored using Suno are also below.
I will let the songs speak for themselves in whatever form you want to access them. Enjoy…