""Oh, gosh, I've got tons of stuff," he responded (as transcribed by Blabbermouth)."Since we finished the last Sabbath show [at 'Back to the Beginning' in July], I've just been going through all the stuff that I've written since the '80s onwards and updating everything. And what held me back before, I didn't have a singer when I'm at home, but AI came along. [laughs] 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.' [Laughs] 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.""
""With Sabbath, we'd sit down in a room together and just jam and jam and jam until somebody came up with something that we could work with. Once we had a good riff to write to, we'd finish the music part of it. Ozzy [Osbourne] would sing his vocal line, then I'd write the lyrics. So, it mainly came from jamming.""
Geezer Butler has updated numerous songs he wrote since the 1980s and is using an AI singer to render vocal demos for his upcoming solo album. He can now generate vocal presentations at home and take them to real vocalists so they understand the desired delivery and lyrics. Previously he could only play bass riffs for singers and ask them to improvise vocals. Butler says producing full AI demos in the studio streamlines the process and allows proper musicians to take over. He acknowledges some people view the practice as cheating. His Black Sabbath songwriting originated from group jam sessions, riff development, Ozzy providing vocal lines, and Butler writing lyrics.
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