With our bass player leaving and the hum drum of finding a replacement the more I think about it the less I really want to put myself through this. I have been leading this band for 5 years. I mean I was doing everything required to further a project. The last time I took a break was 1997. Part of me wants to continue if I were to find the right bass player for this project or find another band with musicians that are as dedicated as I am. My thinking is I have been through enough with this project (although I have managed to build a name recognition). We have had a revolving door for musicians in this band and it is effecting the quality of the music. My recording equipment has been collecting dust for some time now as this band requires 100% of my time. I am thinking about just not booking anymore gigs, our last gig is at the end of July, and just let this thing wind down and put a note on the website that the band is taking a break. All the while I can keep an ear to the ground looking for that next project and record some new originals and just enjoy life for the rest of the year unless of coarse I found the next project sooner than I thought I would. What do you guy's think.
We haven't spoken I don't think before? (Apologies).
In my humble experience. When someone is running everything, booking, hiring, sorting out the multitude of stuff that needs sorting out then others just take a day off because you have in essence become too familiar, almost mother-like.
The simple truth remains that most people are just too damned lazy and want everything on a plate, served hot and with side dishes too.
I think you will find that as soon as you throw the towel in and make your feelings known you'll suddenly find things happening again and may even find the person you are looking for perhaps?
That said I've read many of your posts and they seem to suggest just as you have said, that you need a break from it, need to get some energy from somewhere and then and only when you feel ready for it, start again. I've been in your shoes one or two times in my life as regards music and many times in other areas. At the end of the day it is about you and you are way more important to yourself than constraints placed upon you by circumstances.
I would say. Go write your stuff, chill out a while.
Life's just too short to get bogged down isn't it?
Best of luck Haley.
Chippy
J-HALEY wrote:With our bass player leaving and the hum drum of finding a replacement the more I think about it the less I really want to put myself through this. I have been leading this band for 5 years. I mean I was doing everything required to further a project. The last time I took a break was 1997. Part of me wants to continue if I were to find the right bass player for this project or find another band with musicians that are as dedicated as I am. My thinking is I have been through enough with this project (although I have managed to build a name recognition). We have had a revolving door for musicians in this band and it is effecting the quality of the music. My recording equipment has been collecting dust for some time now as this band requires 100% of my time. I am thinking about just not booking anymore gigs, our last gig is at the end of July, and just let this thing wind down and put a note on the website that the band is taking a break. All the while I can keep an ear to the ground looking for that next project and record some new originals and just enjoy life for the rest of the year unless of coarse I found the next project sooner than I thought I would. What do you guy's think.