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BLACK Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler says he’s using an AI vocalist to help him prepare for an upcoming solo album.
Butler, 76, was interviewed by Twisted Sister singer Dee Snider at the Steel Town Convention in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, and explained how he is preparing for his own record and how he has also been invited to appear on a project by his Sabbath band-mate Tony Iommi.
“What held me back before: I didn’t have a singer when I’m at home,” Butler said.
“But AI came along. So all my songs now, I’ve updated them all and I’m using an AI singer to bring all the lyrics out.
“So now I can take it to singers that I’m gonna be working with and go ‘this is what I want on the album,’ so they’ve got a better idea. Before I was just, like, playing them a bass riff or something, going ‘can you sing to this?’ And they’d be going ‘yeah.’
“But it’s so much better now, ’cause you can sit in your studio and do everything on AI and then take it to proper musicians and let them take over. It’s really helped me. A lot of people think it’s cheating.”
Geography may prevent Butler working with Iommi on the other album, however.
“Tony’s got this great album that he’s doing right at the moment,” Butler said. “I think he’s in the process of mixing it right now, so it should be out sometime [soon].
“He’s got this great singer from Sweden on it. And he wanted me to do three bass tracks – but he wanted me to do them in England, and I can’t go to England until June. So if he can hang on that long, I might collaborate with him in June.”
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