Exodus bassist Jack Gibson sat down with Danielle Bloom for a new interview. The bassist shared his thoughts on the music industry and said there wasn’t one anymore. He explained:
“There’s no business. Once they started giving the music away, there’s no business. We don’t sell shit for records. If we don’t go out and sell t-shirts, we don’t make money. I’m a t-shirt salesman. I’m not a musician. I’m literally a traveling tchotchke seller. That’s what we do. We play music to try to get people to the store and sell them our f*ckin’ stuff with stuff printed on it. That’s the business.”
Gibson also shared his concerns about AI and how it might cause musicians to lose their jobs in the future:
“If you can’t fill up a room, 50,000 units moved on the Internet, then they don’t wanna talk to you. And any day now, we’re all gonna lose our jobs to these f*ckin’ robots. Once the A.I. figures out how to actually make music that people enjoy, they’re not gonna pay us to do sh*t.”
People ‘Won’t Know The Difference’
In the same interview, the host shared her belief that people would still go to see live shows even if AI took over. In response, the bassist said:
“Well, that’s true. But at this point in time, most of the music business isn’t that; most of it is licensing and commercial jingles and music editing and music recording. All that’s gonna just disappear. There’s gonna be 50 people out there who make music that people are interested in that can’t be reproduced. And then the rest of it…”
Gibson also stated his that nobody would be able to tell the difference between a product made by AI and one made by humans in the future:
“Like, who’s gonna pay somebody to write music for a movie? Or pay an orchestra, pay 60 people to come in and perform it when one guy can just go [punch a few commands into a computer] and it comes out. And we’re not gonna know the f*cking difference. Things are changing so fast that I don’t really know what to say.”
Exodus is set to launch their ‘The Battle Of ’24’ North American tour this fall. It’s the band’s first headlining run in years and will include support from Havok, Candy, and Dead Heat. The tour begins on November 2 in Tampa, Florida, and ends on December 7 in Los Angeles, California.
You can listen to the interview down below.
