General Music Chat

Sold my big pa to a church, gave my boy a pa and a drum kit, and most of my lights
gave my grandson a pa and a nice Ibanez RG (real good), guitar and amp rig and
some lights. Really emptied out my house, trying to get the pile down to just the
old upright, still got a lot of sh*t to sell.

Am I less a musician?

You know I didn't lose a studio, but gained a dining room, and a study, and a garage.

Watching PG and JHaley play out convinces me I don't want to play out again.
You guys rockon Mr Haley watching you play The Chair, I payed a guy at the
guitar store 3dollars to show me how to play it and the lick

Man I want to garden and work on my tan and pound my old piano

Ancient ... I wish you all the very best. Changes are coming. Most do not percieve them and many morer are unprepared for them.

There are two reasons to do something....

Because you HAVE TO ...

Or because of your love for it and the joy it brings you.

You play music, you're a musician.

You play music, you're a musician.

FIRST PLUCKING THING YOU HAVE SAID THAT MAKES ANY SENSE!!!!!

You play music, you're a musician.

FIRST PLUCKING THING YOU HAVE SAID THAT MAKES ANY SENSE!!!!!

I hope you choke on a crouton, Maggot.

Planet Guy ... well stated. It is "Holy Week" here now ... the worst time of the year regarding Tourists ... even worse than Spring Break. Banda Bands are rife and Tubas are farting everywhere ... it is like we are living in a cartoon land of some sort ... hmm that actually can apply all year round.

You play music, you're a musician.

FIRST PLUCKING THING YOU HAVE SAID THAT MAKES ANY SENSE!!!!!

I hope you choke on a crouton, Maggot.

That's not nice.
I still wish you a long and healthy life.

Your right PG, guess I have to do it, this is the 3rd try I've made to reach a level
with a band, that was comparable to the big band of the 80s. While I think on
this last try to success, I was the best player I'd ever been, we just couldn't find
the "high" paying "good" jobs, we made way less then we did in the 80s, and it
wasn't nearly as fun. So I have to step my musical ambitions way down ( I love
that old upright), and remodel my house, back from studio and into home.

When I have to do something PG I tend to go overboard, my New Years resolution
this year was to quit listening to the same old tired crap I'd listened to all my life.
To me everybody's stuff sounds the same from the Beatles to Planet Jazz, you know
different words, and chordings, and melodies but all real similar, (That doesn't
include you Scmed your stuff is unique), after 58 years of listening to it, and being
a bad influence on me (Oh it has, it wasn't all my fault), I'm done. My Pandora is
set to the Bach channel, my vehicles have all been tuned to classical and talk radio,
occasionally I listen to some 70s or 80s electronic music. I had to do it, I cut all the
rock and country out of my diet. Classical has let me hear and see the notes working
together, without an agenda, flowing on the page, in my head, and thru my fingers.

Honestly I think I peaked in 1971, when we won the Fairborn, OH elementary talent contest,
twice, once for the students, and once in the evening for the adults. We were a 7 to 9 piece
band of frinds who put on a lip sync play acting band to Joy to the World, we rocked, and
had the whole rockstar thing down pat. It's been all down hill since. Damn we were a good
play acting band, and we sounded good.

I play music but I don't practice 10 hours a day anymore, like you have to, if you want to
be any good. It takes a lot to hit the fast move smooth ( you know wrappin on 2,3, or 4 notes,
to make it sound even more?). I am less of a musician, but I don't care.

Gear doesn't MAKE the musician. But if you're getting no happiness/joy either from listening or playing, sometimes its good to "take a break" from it. Life's too short, enjoy every day, every piece of pie, every sandwich.

Now after us being head to head, over other stuff...
You are showing much wisdom. Thank you!

AND NO...IN THIS CASE I AM NOT BEING SARCASTIC.

When I have to do something PG I tend to go overboard, my New Years resolution
this year was to quit listening to the same old tired crap I'd listened to all my life.
To me everybody's stuff sounds the same from the Beatles to Planet Jazz, you know
different words, and chordings, and melodies but all real similar, .

fair enough. our mission statement w PLANET JAZZ has never been to reinvent the wheel but instead play hard bop standards and our originals in that style.

a while back i tossed out a chord progression here on BM w the purpose that those interested might take the chord chart and come up with THEIR own version of a tune with it, record it, and share it it w the purpose of seeing how we all might come up something very different from one another using the same blueprint. I did a few different versions w different approaches/feels and others like gtr mike, schmed, and jookeyman came up w their own takes on the progression that we all shared w one another.

everyone had something cool and interesting about their's, but Jook's approach was most different and creative. i thought you might find his "different approach" interesting. and i'm gonna include it for you to check out.

for reference.....i'll give you one of my "straight" versions of the tune w me on gtr/mando/bass.
https://soundcloud.com/planetguy-1/em7bbm7-gypsy-like

jook recorded his take on acoustic gtr and asked me to overdub something on it. i did one take on bass and another on vibes (they were both "first takes"...hit record and play. no 'fixes").

here are those two takes....perhaps this might satisfy your sweet tooth for something different.

https://soundcloud.com/planetguy-1/jooks-blues-for-mex-w-overdubbed-bass

https://soundcloud.com/planetguy-1/jooks-blues-for-mex-w-overdubbed-vibes

I am less of a musician, but I don't care.

That's BS man. You're just going through another season where priorities are different. You can't stop being a musician no matter how hard you try.

If you want to be immediately downgraded as a musician, post your music here and crazy Glenny can pretend to listen to it and tell you "your music sucks and you need to get a job".

Problem solved!