I don't know what I was thinking...Used to think I was a pretty good musician "back in the day". Vocals, guitar, lots of bands, lots of arranging, lots of jobs.
Over the weekend I found a couple of cassette tapes from "back in the day". Man! I sucked!!!
I am devastated!!
If I fooled myself before, I can damn well do it again. All I can say for sure is that I wished I had recorded more back then and actually listened to it. I think I would have learned a lot.
Perhaps that's the problem. You didn't have enough fun.Music was pretty serious business back then so the word fun didn't exactly come up that often.
It was as fun as learning brain surgery.
Perhaps that's the problem. You didn't have enough fun.
Well, I guess one or both of us missed the others point
The "business" of music is almost always a buzzkill. The music itself should be the fun part - especially rock and pop. That was the spirit in which it was originally spawned, afterall. All that death metal, grind core, hard core rap, grunge, emo shoe gazing, etc of the last couple decades kinda killed the fun, maybe, just a thought, but it seems to be coming around to a don't-take-yourself-to-seriously vibe again. I guess brain surgery could be made fun if the surgeon played an ukulele in the O.R.Music was pretty serious business back then so the word fun didn't exactly come up that often. There was a lot of study, education, hard work, practice and lugging equipment around. Looking for jobs and audiences, fighting to get paid for the ones you got to play. Sounding fun yet?
It was an attempt to become a professional which now seems self deluding when you hear what the actual product was sounding like.
It was as fun as learning brain surgery.
It holds up pretty well as you said.
