[atlantaprog] Re: (No Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 18:44:37 +0000

I wrote:

After all, *it beats working'*, right?

and Allen Welty-Green, repasentin' the Judicious (if you know your Myers-Briggs or David Keirsey), issued the challenge:

Well, does it?

whereupon Wade S, being upstanding for the Perceptive (see above), shot back with:

For me it sure as hell does.

If the music is good enough, I guess. Some music I don't think I'd ever grow truly to like. I've pretty much made my peace with the music of the band I'm in now; like I think I said, it's pretty good music for its type. And more importantly, I can still make my own music on my own time. If you have something in you that needs to get out, as far as I'm concerned, that ought to take priority; just don't put so much time into the music you make to pay the bills that you've got none left for the music that's the reason you make music. I honestly don't enjoy PLAYING that much; it's just that if I don't play, the music doesn't get made, eh?

Playing it as a day job killed his love of playing. It wasn't fun, or artistically rewarding. It was drudgery.

It sounds like he just wasn't cut out for the road. "On the road weeks on end, playing pedal steel every night" - that sounds like what I had always imagined success would be like in an original band (well, if you switch "pedal steel" with "bass").

Yeah. I have to ask, Allen, what music would your friend's dad have preferred to play?

...if you truly love music, then play the music you love.

On the other hand: if you truly love music, try having an open mind about music you don't love. Try playing something you don't like and see what happens.

Fair enough. But don't forget to reserve your right to keep not liking it if that's what happens. Just take care of the music you love first. In other words: For some, truly loving music means not playing just any old music.

OTOH, I've sung "White Wedding" and "Light My Fire" at Metalsome Monday, and the experience increased my respect and taste for both of those tunes. Not that I'll ever be knocked out by either one, but at least I can get something out of them now. (If you're wondering, "Light My Fire" is, for me, the superior tune. That cheesy Farfisa organ tends to make people forget what a talented keyboardist Ray Manzarek is, at least considering that he played the bass line, too. Try playing the intro with the bass and see what I mean.)

With that said, come check out our lame-ass, sell-out cover band online at www.RadioCult.com or feel free to come out to a show to point and laugh at us in person! 

Are you playing Atlanta anytime soon?  :)

The thing about Radio Cult is that you seem to be determined to have as good a time as you possibly can with it. You know, "lemonade" and all that. Again, fair enough.

For what it's worth, golucky will be playing the Ten High on (I believe) July 6.

http://www.myspace.com/goluckymusic

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