When I take the train into the office and deboard in downtown Seattle, I generally have my earbuds in and am listening to "Old Man Down the Road" by John Gogarty. It kind of makes me feel like being an old bearded man can be cool especially if he plays a guitar, wears and old hat and is in a swamp. So I asked ChatGPT to create an image of me that evoked the "Old Man Down the Road" song. In the first try it gave me this.
I liked it but I wanted more of a swamp rock vibe.
I would have been satisfied with this version though I know my wife would freak out if I grew my hair out and looked like I just wandered out of the swamp. I said something about it looking like an old man who had just stepped out of guarding his still in the swamp and ChatGPT interpreted that as a request (it is like a genii that way).
I'm not sure why, but I do kind of like the look. You can imagine me uttering some slurred words like, "You best turn around quickly and git, and I suggest running in a zig zag pattern outta here."
But I'm a guitar man, not a gun toter. So I asked for a version of this image with me holding a guitar standing in the middle of a dirt road in the middle of a swamp.
That led to the album cover version at the top of this post. Now if I could only sing worth crap and could record a song. Wouldn't even need to have a record label. I would just go the Tik Tok route. There are uglier old men on there than me.
Now I just need to get an old slouch type hat.
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