General Music Chat

Never take a check for a performance. I just don't trust the folks there.

Never take a check for a performance. I just don't trust the folks there.

Hmmm...what is hell like for rock musicians?

A country bar.

Ooh, ooh! I got one. I had a dream one night that I was playing in front a monster audience. Just as I go on stage, the sound system craps out. Then, it floods and there is this muddy, sewer like moat going around the stage. Finally, just when I think the bugs are worked out, I get ready to play-and my bass turns into a loaf of bread. I'm hammering away at it, trying to get some sound out of it, and it just starts falling apart-and into the sewage water. I'm fishing around for a slice here and there, slaspping my fingers down on each soggy one, trying to get it to sound like a bass. Next thing I know, I look up and the audience has left-without me ever getting to play a note.


Wish I was making that up.

Ooh, ooh! I got one. I had a dream one night that I was playing in front a monster audience. Just as I go on stage, the sound system craps out. Then, it floods and there is this muddy, sewer like moat going around the stage. Finally, just when I think the bugs are worked out, I get ready to play-and my bass turns into a loaf of bread. I'm hammering away at it, trying to get some sound out of it, and it just starts falling apart-and into the sewage water. I'm fishing around for a slice here and there, slaspping my fingers down on each soggy one, trying to get it to sound like a bass. Next thing I know, I look up and the audience has left-without me ever getting to play a note.


Wish I was making that up.

Wow! Tell me more about this dream... When did you have it?

Eh, it's been a month or so ago. I don't remember too much more about it (I'm pretty sure we were supposed to open up with "Sweet Home Alabama").

You know that dream that people have where they are naked in front of a group of people? I often have dreams (I'm not naked), that I am playing with big name acts...and I never know the GD songs! Even when, in reality, I've played the songs. I'm pretty sure that's my low self-esteem (believe it or not) kicking me in the jewels. I worry so much about being unprepared that I've developed MAJOR OCD habits. I write out lists constantly. Nothing sucks worse than to work your a$$ off and have your own brain tell you that you are a failure...


Okay, I'll get off the shrink's couch now...

Eh, it's been a month or so ago. I don't remember too much more about it (I'm pretty sure we were supposed to open up with "Sweet Home Alabama").

You know that dream that people have where they are naked in front of a group of people? I often have dreams (I'm not naked), that I am playing with big name acts...and I never know the GD songs! Even when, in reality, I've played the songs. I'm pretty sure that's my low self-esteem (believe it or not) kicking me in the jewels. I worry so much about being unprepared that I've developed MAJOR OCD habits. I write out lists constantly. Nothing sucks worse than to work your a$$ off and have your own brain tell you that you are a failure...


Okay, I'll get off the shrink's couch now...

Hey Bro, nothing to be ashamed of there... I believe that dreams are the seeds of perspective , which help us process a lot of stuff in our heads...both real or imagined...

Years ago, I dabbled a little bit in the study of dream interpretation... What I remember was that 'Water' often depicts our own sense of Self-Efficacy, and level of ego (esteem wise). When you described the rising moats , I though about the water.... Many Years ago, I had a recurring dream, where I was on the beach and a damn tidal wave of epic size kept rolling over me...

Like your dream, the feeling of being consumed became overwhelming. After a lot of thought, I relate mine back to the military, and the false pride they instilled in me... (every feat is a grandiose and heroic event...even filling out government paperwork correctly) ... I had to get humble to abate that dream...

Clarity/purity and level of the water, can often describe to us our own sense of 'confidence' in some major facet of life. The murkier, un-cleanliness fashion could be construed as the distracting force , which clouds our confidence...(Our otherwise serene pool).

Then we feel threatened and consumed by it...
In your dream, the bread is interesting... Consider the substance of bread... Its soft, limpy, of no 'real' strength or durability in it.... I'm gonna go on a limb here... If that bread is falling into (and with) that sewage... could the mind be saying somethig, like... 'my confidence is clouded by insubstantial matter... or more to the point, is there a possibility that we are quite the good musician, but our own ideas against that might be holding us at bay from experiencing the successes we yearn to reach?

Cleo, stepping down now... (getting out that tarot deck)

I think that's a very interesting take, PD. While I don't always get the symbolism, I know very well where the theme comes from. It's getting much worse, too, now that I seem to be going through a mid-life crisis...

get out yer screwdiver and fix it

F*cking robot stole my line! I'll f*cking sue!

Soap getting in yer eyes from the bubble machine while Lawrence Welk keeps telling you to smile, and Perry Como keeps waking you up. Meanwhile the Lennon Sisters are really drag queens, and Bobby and Sissy are Siamese twins. The only costumes left are hand me downs from the Champagne lady who is now Liberace. All the Champagne you can drink provided you don't mind it is non-alcoholic.

Country Music Hell would be more appalling even though the house band features greats like Jimi Hendrix, Jerry Garcia, Keith Moon, Janis Jopln, and Johny Rotten. They can only play and sing Arabic disco music. No drugs or alcoholic beverages allowed!