Midnite Zephyr
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This quote came from Jim in the Random Thoughts thread, but it got me to thinking...
Maybe you all have some thoughts to share on this subject on why you are all so anxious to gig?
Quote:
Originally Posted by JimFiore View Post
Today's random thought:
Very often musicians will inidicate that they carefully and continuously practice their instrument so that they will have the skill to "say something" with it. I think that's a lovely sentiment. My question is, how many of us "say something" other than "Look at me!"?
I can relate to this. We are trying to develop our music to really "say something", other than what is normal, in our approach to songwriting, but there is always this constant need and desire by the bassist and one guitar player to play on a stage and tell the world "look at me". Rather than just focusing on the music, serving the music and trying make it more awesome, their main motivation lies in playing on a stage and "sharing" it and trying to make money, and network, and blah blah blah.
That stuff is necessary, but it has its time and place. Now we're talking about bringing in another drummer again, maybe. We still don't have a permanant keys player yet, and all these guys want to do is play a gig no matter what we will sound like.
It's really starting to tick me off, and I'm not sure I want to play with guys like that. They seem incompatible with what we are trying to accomplish musically because they don't see the importance of putting in the time it takes to develop our music properly.
I can see their point in a way. Time is not something we give up so easily to others, I would even go so far as to say that it is even more precious to people than money. But, then again, time is money.
Maybe you all have some thoughts to share on this subject on why you are all so anxious to gig?
Quote:
Originally Posted by JimFiore View Post
Today's random thought:
Very often musicians will inidicate that they carefully and continuously practice their instrument so that they will have the skill to "say something" with it. I think that's a lovely sentiment. My question is, how many of us "say something" other than "Look at me!"?
I can relate to this. We are trying to develop our music to really "say something", other than what is normal, in our approach to songwriting, but there is always this constant need and desire by the bassist and one guitar player to play on a stage and tell the world "look at me". Rather than just focusing on the music, serving the music and trying make it more awesome, their main motivation lies in playing on a stage and "sharing" it and trying to make money, and network, and blah blah blah.
That stuff is necessary, but it has its time and place. Now we're talking about bringing in another drummer again, maybe. We still don't have a permanant keys player yet, and all these guys want to do is play a gig no matter what we will sound like.
It's really starting to tick me off, and I'm not sure I want to play with guys like that. They seem incompatible with what we are trying to accomplish musically because they don't see the importance of putting in the time it takes to develop our music properly.
I can see their point in a way. Time is not something we give up so easily to others, I would even go so far as to say that it is even more precious to people than money. But, then again, time is money.