Photographs For (AI) Music

A late-60s "period" piece generated by AI. It's amazing how including an organ in a prompt results in this. The part is too rudimentary to be Keith Emerson or Jon Lord. The photo is a self-portrait by Lee Friedlander, probably late 60's so it goes right with it. 

 

In the out-takes, the first track immediately reminded me of early Yes with Tony Kaye on keyboards and Peter Banks om guitar, and before Jon Anderson joined.

 

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It’s only later in your life when you have access to both the side streets and the highways in your life. If you were born in the 1960s and an adolescent in the 70s, those are the side streets of your life. Then there’s the highway of the 1960s.            

I didn’t access the highway of the 1960s until the late 1970s, at which time I was “on the road” with the other generations that have been on those roads for a long time, including the highway of the 1950s and 1940s. It wasn’t until the mid-1980s that I actually started to be influenced by the 1960s when I started to write music.  

Decade highways
The side streets
And the highways in your life

Life's a constant motion
Past valleys lush and deep
Flowing to an ocean
As the final release

Beneath an endless sky
Roads that twist and bend
Staying on a road
A means to the end

Decade highways
The side streets
And the highways in your life