A funny question

Yesterday a buddy came over... he plays rock guitar. My wife grabbed the bass, and I played drums. We played a blues and a bossa nova.

It was 45 minutes of pure bliss. :-)

Working by myself in a cave isn't nearly as fun. :-(

Funny how musicians deal with time and how it can slip away...yes I'm that weird Janet.

Yes, we are that wierd

people talk about doing music for fun. for me its actually
quit hard and challenging. the end result is what is fun. i think many
of us are actually very in tune with things rather than unusual.
if i spend time on having fun so to speak when its over its over.

when i spend time writing and recording i have a "tangable product"
my ex wife was a singer and of all the people you would think she
would appreciate the time i spent writing. she came home from
work and watched tv.

i came home and wrote. one day she said i dont spend enough time
with her. i said ok tommorow well do something together what would
you like to do? she said watch tv together. i said ok.

next day i came home and we did that. soon after "being together"
i said something about a funny part or something on a sitcom.
SHE GOT MAD at me! and said something like "dont bother me".

?????? in my mind.

i know what it is. music was meaningfull to me and she even
being a musician herself did not have that. she has since given up
on music and im still at it. some of my other freinds in music have too


its proven that music stimulates the brain. "as long as it aint noise"
if i were a spouse and new this id praise my other for doing this.
1 hour of prechouse time together is worth more than a week of
of "just being there"

many people just burn time. if thats what they want im ok with that.
but im not one of them no more than they are like me. im into
music and motorcycles. others are into untangable things.

we arent crazy and not even differrent in that term. its a part of
who we are. some musicians "or should i say many" dont even
write.

so even they dont see it the way we do. id rather see a child
spend a lot of time writing or playing rather than doing some other
things if thats what they wanted. so its no less with a freind or
spouse either.

sure beats watching tv eating junk food.

my neighbers have been asking me lately how my music is going.
and ill say im happy. they say thats "good"

i think that says it all

jimmy

ORIGINAL: Mamabear

I spent a very nice (and actually productive for a change!) 3 hours in my studio last night, which is not too unusual for me for the last 18 months. But last night my husband asked me 'do you really ENJOY working on music that much?' I wasn't quite sure how to answer that pretty obvious question, so after himming and hawing and considering a few smart retorts, I just said, 'well, when I'm not enjoying it anymore, I quit.'

We're not really THAT weird, are we?

OK, so maybe we are. But isn't everybody in their own way?

I do it because I have to.

Yeah we are weird, Come to think of it though, I'm just about as weird with other things, I just love total immersion into something, and then you could do a lot worse.

Butterflies. Stamps. Watches.

I love the studio time.... Just me and the music... to me it's relaxing to be playing music and doing this.....

from time to time... I need a break...so I go to work.

Working alone with computers and technology sucks when it comes to music. Music is meant to be a collaborative art form. That's why so many people think that the "next big thing" in technology will give them that psychic goodness they can really only get from being a part of a musical ensemble.