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I play because I'd be really boring if I didn't.
I don't even know if I like it any more, so I guess I'm partly doing it to see if I can ever answer that question.
And also...when I'm playing on stage, there's so much volume that the "noise" of the world goes away if you see what I mean, but it's still controlled and relatively predictable. Very few places I can go for that.
It's all about me, y'see.
Given that I'm in an originals band, that's not often far from the truth
Step two was to do it again, partly because it was good fun, partly because I needed the money. (Would I have played the same gigs for nothing? Mostly, yes. Would I have shoveled manure on the same nights if that was the way to get the money? You bet! I was skint.)
Step three (which has been in place for all the many years since then) is that I feel no desire to repeat any of it. It was good at the time, this is a different time. Looking back, what was the best part? Just getting it right and watching the dance floor fill up.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
There's also an absolute pleasure to be had from getting onstage with some really good fellow musicians. You could take the audience away and there's still a buzz form playing and reacting together onstage.
Some of the original artists I work for are oblivious to the idea that if they were more entertaining then more people would listen to their message.
Nobody owes you a living, or even a hearing.
It has at various time since then been about other things.
Now I do it mainly because I love music and how the music itself (not the performing) makes me feel. I love the moment when everything drops into place as a band and you can feel the connection with the audience. There’s some magic involved in music……I do it for those moments of magic.
I know myself well enough to realise that I'd lose my love of playing the guitar if I started doing 3 gigs a week playing covers in front of happy audiences looking to be entertained. That's what happened to my love of motorcycling when teaching people to ride was my job. It took a couple of years for that love to return once I stopped.
All the lock downs knocked the stuffing out of me a bit. I didn’t do much practicing and now I feel I’m back to square one! Sigh. Must find my muse again….
As Rowby1 said…. MAGIC
My originals days are long behind me so these days it’s just about covers.
At the heart of it I think that I do it because I need to perform, I need to be the centre of attention.
Regarding musical choice, I don’t want to play stuff that I hate just because it pleases the audience but equally I don’t play stuff that I like but the audience doesn’t. I joined a second band who have, so far, done a handful of gigs at the end of 2021 / start 22. In a couple of weeks’ time we’ll be out again and we’re throwing out several songs that we enjoyed playing but which haven’t gone down as well as we would have liked. There’s an almost limitless number of songs out there from which to choose so no point in flogging any dead horses.
I think on some level I'm afraid that they'll be forgotten if people don't go out and play them.
Weird! Never really thought about it before.
The three corners are Money, Enjoyment, Acclaim/Merit.
It doesn't matter where you are in the triangle as long as you're happy.
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I think true quan is when you do it with your own material but then there's all the other promotion stuff I can't be arsed with (I've covered this here many times before).
Solutions to that are either a silent environment with very few sources of visual and auditory input, or an incredibly loud environment where one source drowns out all others.
Hence...gigs
I sometimes dread getting ready and the loading/setting up but once on stage the joy of the music makes that all fade, at least until it’s time to strike the stage! I think I might have too many toys er… I mean tools on stage.
I know that's not what you were asking but I think there are a few on here like this.