<\/p>\n\u201cYes, I\u2019ve got about 350… 450 pieces of music. Now, a lot of it is probably terrible,\u201d Townsend admitted. \u201cI\u2019ve managed to wade through about half of it. I don\u2019t know what to do with it.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cI\u2019m also quite interested in AI,\u201d he revealed. \u201cI\u2019m interested in getting some of my old… the songs that didn\u2019t quite work because I didn\u2019t get them quite right first time round and put them up onto Suno or some AI music machine and see what it can make of it. There might be some hits.\u201d<\/p>\n
If the guitarist did go down this route, it wouldn\u2019t be a complete surprise. Townshend has never been afraid of using new technology, whether that be synthesizers on Who\u2019s Next, or the quadrophonic sound he originally envisaged for, well, the Quadrophenia album.<\/p>\n
Then there is the small matter of him predicting the Internet in the Lifehouse project \u2013 for what is \u2018the grid\u2019 in the plot of that abandoned concept album, but the World Wide Web itself?<\/p>\n
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