Amazing Stories

[saxitoxin]

My new musical is called "AMAZING STORIES" and is based on the iconic magazine of the early 20th century Amazing Stories. After working on this forever, AI has finally allowed me to orchestrate and choralize it.

In 1947 New York, pulp magazine editor Ray Palmer gets a letter from a man named Richard Shaver. Shaver claims he has discovered a hidden language embedded in ancient tongues that reveals a terrifying truth. He insists that beneath the Earth dwell the "Deros," degenerate descendants of a forgotten super-civilization, who use ancient machines to torment surface humans. In major cities like Chicago and New York, elevators in skyscrapers descend into the inner Earth and the realm of the Deros.

Taking a chance, Palmer publishes Shaver's letter as a story in the next issue. The popularity of this tale, and its sequels, catapults Amazing Stories to the top selling pulp magazine on American newsstands. But there are some who believe The Shaver Mystery is not fiction ... including Shaver himself.

Here's the (unfinished) storyboard of the first song:

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In Scene 2, Palmer drives to Pennsylvania to visit Shaver in his home.

[jonesthecurl]

When does Mount Shasta come into it?

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When does Mount Shasta come into it?

Well, interesting you should ask. It is obliquely mentioned once by a character named Major Conklin from the Army. In ACT II, Major Conklin is introduced and reveals to Palmer that the Shaver Mystery is REAL! His song is still be worked on ... this is where it is so far --



Later, towards the end, Amazing Stories is attacked by Deros technology --- Palmer realizes they must discontinue publishing the Shaver Mystery and revert to fiction so that the forces battling the Deros can continue to do so in secret ... this is also not finished ...



The problem with the AI is it sometimes veers off lyrics ... like the lyrics here are supposed to be "caught in webs I do not weave," but it sings "caught in webs I do believe."

[saxitoxin]

WHAT JACKASS IS LEAVING COMMENTS ON MY SONGS?????

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I WANT NAMES.