not quite fun while it lasted
my lackluster Musical life (temporarily?) ended today seemingly…ya can’t play an electric guitar w/o an amp, right? I CAN play an acoustic guitar, but I prefer the electric…I’m just better at it; I enjoy it more, it doesn’t feel as much like work (which makes me sound lazy but f**k it) it’s just more FUN for me…A so-called friend of mine has told me at least once that “no one wants to be in a band with you”; It might be because I find it hard to tolerate Musicians who apparently can’t hear how mediocre they are…Another “friend” sez my standards are too high–and that’s bad because…why? His band isn’t so great, ever hear of something called HARMONY? Guess not…Speaking of which, the band I sat in with awhile back was pretty good except that (to me at least) 3 part harmony means 3 voices at work, duplicating parts sounds (to my ears) just plain bad…a rare case of TOO MUCH Harmony…Now in a recording studio 2 or more people singing the same parts can be blended in such a way that it sounds like a voice that otherwise wouldn’t exist…*I* don’t think that’s possible in the local bar, it just sounds like a mish mosh to me…The band I heard last weekend was not good at all IMO,the tempos were rushed and (again) the vocals were not what they could/should have been…but they have a gig, *I* don’t…and *I* would suggest to any band trying to play the studio arrangement of SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL by the Rolling Stones, DON’T…play the live version (Get Yer Ya-yas Out) instead…I haven’t said any of this on Facebook yet…most of what I’ve said here has stayed here…BTW, this retirement wasn’t completely my idea, I sold the amp to raise money to pay some bills…and now I can…which almost kinda sorta in a way makes me nearly happy…