Sometimes I forget how much work goes into capturing recordings.
 
Last night, I left all that stuff at home and had an absolutely great time!

Hi,
 
I've always said that, just like my writing, sometimes you have to tell yourself ... I'm not recording and I'm just letting loose.
 
And it has to be "thrown" away, so that you learn to "let go" of ideas, and also teach yourself to concentrate on the important parts and details that help you "turn on" and just have some fun! When you match that to what you do, you will be a Road Runner, amidst a bunch of Willbe E. Coyote's!

Kinda like......
 
Well I won't go there but yeah.... it's such a great thing.  Very "freeing" musically.

A lot of work goes into doing your own recordings, and playing live with others is just liberating......one is all work and the other is all play?  

All my best playing goes completely unrecorded (and unheard by anyone but me) 

sharke
All my best playing goes completely unrecorded (and unheard by anyone but me) 

BS. You are not the best judge for your own material, because, just like all of us creative folks, we're our own worst enemy and critics. As Pogo said ... "We's met dah en'my. It's us!"
 
From a writing perspective, this is important. It takes away the idea that one moment you can and the next you can't. And it helps develop the idea of the whole piece together, and you learn to see it for what it is and how you relate to it.
 
I have, a lot of small bits and pieces of poetry, like 3 or 4 lines, kinda just standing there, but they never show up anywhere else, until the minute I erase them and send them on their way back to the inventory line for creativity. Almost like clockwork, the next day, those set of words, sometimes just a verb moved, shows up somewhere else ... I end up feeling that we're not machines, and our internal and creative process can not be taken as some kind of mechanical exercise, because that will generally hurt it, not help it.

Moshkito

sharke
All my best playing goes completely unrecorded (and unheard by anyone but me) 

BS. You are not the best judge for your own material, because, just like all of us creative folks, we're our own worst enemy and critics. As Pogo said ... "We's met dah en'my. It's us!"
 
From a writing perspective, this is important. It takes away the idea that one moment you can and the next you can't. And it helps develop the idea of the whole piece together, and you learn to see it for what it is and how you relate to it.
 
I have, a lot of small bits and pieces of poetry, like 3 or 4 lines, kinda just standing there, but they never show up anywhere else, until the minute I erase them and send them on their way back to the inventory line for creativity. Almost like clockwork, the next day, those set of words, sometimes just a verb moved, shows up somewhere else ... I end up feeling that we're not machines, and our internal and creative process can not be taken as some kind of mechanical exercise, because that will generally hurt it, not help it.

*Bzzzzzt!!!*
 
Wrong again!
 
With all due respect, you really need to learn context Pedro.  (I'll ignore how you took a fun line posted in a musician forum, which actually applies to me too, and redirected it to be about writing and your works.  You really should consider starting your own writing and review forum me thinks!)

Moshkito

sharke
All my best playing goes completely unrecorded (and unheard by anyone but me) 

BS. You are not the best judge for your own material, because, just like all of us creative folks, we're our own worst enemy and critics. As Pogo said ... "We's met dah en'my. It's us!"
 
From a writing perspective, this is important. It takes away the idea that one moment you can and the next you can't. And it helps develop the idea of the whole piece together, and you learn to see it for what it is and how you relate to it.
 
I have, a lot of small bits and pieces of poetry, like 3 or 4 lines, kinda just standing there, but they never show up anywhere else, until the minute I erase them and send them on their way back to the inventory line for creativity. Almost like clockwork, the next day, those set of words, sometimes just a verb moved, shows up somewhere else ... I end up feeling that we're not machines, and our internal and creative process can not be taken as some kind of mechanical exercise, because that will generally hurt it, not help it.

Moshkito is definitely incorrect here.  :D:D  J.D. Salinger used to spend HOURS laboring over just a few turns of phrase, or certain words.  You could say that the garbage disposal was part of the process I guess.  And as we all know...he wrote a bunch of stuff that he wanted published posthumously, suggesting as Moshkito denies that the creator not the audience is the best judge (or worst judge in the best sense of the phrase.)  Being painfully perfectionistic can be hard on one's mental health, but it's very good for the oeuvre.  No I'm not saying to be painfully perfectionistic about eggs.
 
This leaves the question of whether it's necessary to be painfully perfectionistic over the details of production viz creation in music.  In this forum alot of people seem to sweat a few db's here and a few mhz there.  Is this really necessary?  When I read SOS and other magazines, it seems most of the professional engineers laugh at that.
 
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However it can be good to get correct feedback, as long as it's from the right people.  You can get steered wrong from folks who are evil.  We all know that the forums have many evil people. :D:D  If you can surround yourself with people from whom an opinion matters, then you're in good shape.  

Moshkito

sharke
All my best playing goes completely unrecorded (and unheard by anyone but me) 

BS. You are not the best judge for your own material, because, just like all of us creative folks, we're our own worst enemy and critics. As Pogo said ... "We's met dah en'my. It's us!"
 
From a writing perspective, this is important. It takes away the idea that one moment you can and the next you can't. And it helps develop the idea of the whole piece together, and you learn to see it for what it is and how you relate to it.
 
 
I have, a lot of small bits and pieces of poetry, like 3 or 4 lines, kinda just standing there, but they never show up anywhere else, until the minute I erase them and send them on their way back to the inventory line for creativity. Almost like clockwork, the next day, those set of words, sometimes just a verb moved, shows up somewhere else ...
 
I end up feeling that we're not machines, and our internal and creative process can not be taken as some kind of mechanical exercise, because that will generally hurt it, not help it.

Pedro - do you post any of this stuff on poetry or creative writing forums? I'd love to read the responses.
 

 
It's incredibly liberating to create something that you know will cease to exist the moment you do.