Those who wanted to keep your music as hobby, what are your musical hobby goals?

[PatchAdamz]

that reminds me, i need to order some fake eyelashes

What, I thought those were fake eyelashes, lovely....

[vurt]

that reminds me, i need to order some fake eyelashes

What, I thought those were fake eyelashes, lovely....

i actually get that a lot. my missus is jealous of my eyelashes as not only are they long, they have a natural curl.

they annoy the shit out of me, looking like spiders legs against me glasses

the false, are for comicon. i need one for my droogpool costume

[Googly Smythe]

Short read:
I write/compose/produce to amaze.

Long read:
I've been actively listening to music since I was about 6 or 7. During school holidays I would be left on my own for about an hour in the morning and I would play the records other members of the family had bought. That would be around 1960-61. The first single I ever bought was when I was ten, House Of The Rising Sun by The Animals - I'd heard on it Ready Steady Go (1964).
When I was 13 I injured my foot, just in time for the Easter holidays, and was house bound, I couldn't walk. I spent all day listening to Radio London. (1967.) I bought Sgt Pepper in the autumn, when I'd managed to save up the 32/6 it cost. Christmas, I bought Days Of Future Past and Piper At The Gates Of Dawn. 1968, I bought In Search Of The Lost Chord and A Saucerful Of Secrets. 1969 it was In The Court Of The Crimson King, Ummagumma and Ars Longa Vita Brevis.
&tc, &tc, &tc.
Why all this flim flam?
Because each these singles and albums blew my socks off, they absolutely amazed me. I was gobsmacked then and I am still gobsmacked when I listen to them today, even after 50+ years.
1969 I came home from a holiday in Spain with an accoustic guitar - it was bloody awful, but to me it was a doorway into a world where I could make my own music that would amaze. Turned out it wasn't so easy.
2022 and I'm still trying to make music that captures that feeling of amazement that that younger me felt. How successful I am, is for others to judge.
Thank you for your attention.

[BONES]

My experience is quite different to that. The music I was exposed to growing up did absolutely nothing for me. I had a few singles and a couple of albums but music basically meant nothing to me at all.

Then, at the end of 1978 when I was home on leave from the Army, my uni student friends dragged me along to see some band from the UK they said were amazing and that I'd like. They had no f**king idea how that one night would completely change my life. The UK band was The Stranglers and it connected to me instantly, like nothing I had ever experienced before in my life. It opened up a whole world that had previously been invisible to me, the most profound thing that has ever happened in my life by several orders of magnitude.

[Hink]

that's pretty cool BONES...

[vurt]

Short read:
I write/compose/produce to amaze.

Long read:
I've been actively listening to music since I was about 6 or 7. During school holidays I would be left on my own for about an hour in the morning and I would play the records other members of the family had bought. That would be around 1960-61. The first single I ever bought was when I was ten, House Of The Rising Sun by The Animals - I'd heard on it Ready Steady Go (1964).
When I was 13 I injured my foot, just in time for the Easter holidays, and was house bound, I couldn't walk. I spent all day listening to Radio London. (1967.) I bought Sgt Pepper in the autumn, when I'd managed to save up the 32/6 it cost. Christmas, I bought Days Of Future Past and Piper At The Gates Of Dawn. 1968, I bought In Search Of The Lost Chord and A Saucerful Of Secrets. 1969 it was In The Court Of The Crimson King, Ummagumma and Ars Longa Vita Brevis.
&tc, &tc, &tc.
Why all this flim flam?
Because each these singles and albums blew my socks off, they absolutely amazed me. I was gobsmacked then and I am still gobsmacked when I listen to them today, even after 50+ years.
1969 I came home from a holiday in Spain with an accoustic guitar - it was bloody awful, but to me it was a doorway into a world where I could make my own music that would amaze. Turned out it wasn't so easy.
2022 and I'm still trying to make music that captures that feeling of amazement that that younger me felt. How successful I am, is for others to judge.
Thank you for your attention.

same here, although a few years later, born in 74.
i have a large family of aunts and uncles, who me and my mum lived with from i was 2.
they were all twenties to teens, and my granddad had been buying records since the end of his service in the army, where he actually fought in a war the big one.
there was an old radiogram and 3 walls of records in the listening room.

when i wasn't outside playing, we would be sat in the listening room, me and granddad, and he would play all kinds of music for me (too young to be allowed to use the machine myself).
while he had his own favourites, he also enjoyed listening to all the "new modern" at the time, music my aunt's and uncles would bring home, as he always told me, you don't know what you don't like or like till you've heard it.

one of the things that saddens me, he was taken from us, not long before i joined my first band
would have loved to have played in front of him, to say thanks for the education

[melomood]

I'm kind of similar. When I was around 6 I had already established that I loved music (heard 'I Hear a Symphony' when I was god knows how young, so the song & cover of that record has been emblazoned on my memory since) My uncle,who was actually drafted and served in Vietnam, gave me a stack of his old Motown records. That was all she wrote.

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[raiderpdog]

I was lucky to come from a music loving home, as the youngest kid I absorbed everything from my parents and older siblings. My older sisters always had the pop hits of the day playing as well as disco and some rock. My older brother always had heavy rock, classic rock, and early punk and new wave. My parents had oldies, easy listening, jazz, classical, pop hits, old R+B , standards, etc. Nothing was off-limits for the kids, my parents gave us our freedom and were actually interested in trying to learn about the new music of the day, because they loved music. Even my grandparents and other relatives were deep music lovers, so whenever we visited someone, music was always a part of things.

I loved pretty much all of it, actually. I was a sponge, and whomever was driving wherever we were going, I would hear their stuff. At home, mom always had music in the kitchen, and the kids always had stuff blasting in their rooms. Wonderful memories.
For me, the new wave era/early MTV time was when I found my own music that clicked with me as a young guy, but still love all the stuff I was exposed to.

[BertKoor]

. I'm going to have a nightmare tonight where I'm forced to attend a concert where Hayzee Fantayzee opens for Frank Zappa who opens for Rush who opens for Tool and the entire time not only will I not be able to just leave,

Nightmare you say? 2nd & 3rd act I've paid good money to watch and represent a substantial portion of my cd collection.

but, I'm going to have to listen to that one vegan ex-girlfriend go on and on and on and on and on and f**king on about the lyrics.

Been there, done that. And while she closes her eyes, submerged in the lyrics, I take the opportunity to shamelessly but unpunished gaze at her boobs in that tight black tank top

[BONES]

one of the things that saddens me, he was taken from us, not long before i joined my first band
would have loved to have played in front of him, to say thanks for the education

None of my friends or family have ever seen me perform, other than the friends I've made through music. I think some of my school friends might have come to my first Sydney gig, in 1986, but that's it. It's not something I would expect any of them to be interested in. Maybe if I ever get off my arse and do the 80s thing live, I might see if my brother wants to come along, but that's as far as I'd go.

[vurt]

one of the things that saddens me, he was taken from us, not long before i joined my first band
would have loved to have played in front of him, to say thanks for the education

None of my friends or family have ever seen me perform, other than the friends I've made through music. I think some of my school friends might have come to my first Sydney gig, in 1986, but that's it. It's not something I would expect any of them to be interested in. Maybe if I ever get off my arse and do the 80s thing live, I might see if my brother wants to come along, but that's as far as I'd go.

none of my other family members aside from one uncle who drove the van for us, ever have either. and i wouldn't expect them to or to want to.
but i know my granddad would have.

[ATS]

to continue to improve and learn, push myself to try new things.

[BertKoor]

My band for 20 years played original songs only. It was for our fun only, getting together with the boys each week. We did have a regular gig schema: once a year. Listening to the songs now, it's a bit of a surprise there still were people in the venue after 3 songs.

[ghettosynth]

Been there, done that. And while she closes her eyes, submerged in the lyrics, I take the opportunity to shamelessly but unpunished gaze at her boobs in that tight black tank top

It's the small things in life.

[The Chase]

I tell people that I make music mostly therapeutically, which is true. It has become a private aspiration in itself since it is such an important part of my life, with a specific emotional function. Similar to journaling, but art.

My goal is technically still what my goal was when I was a teenager still with dreams of being a successful DJ-producer. To become good enough for "release quality" or to surpass the bar for production in my favorite genres. But once I got there my aspirations for a career disappeared. Not to mention half my friends are professional full-timers and their relationship with music seems less satisfying.

Of course ego still exists; people will ask about your ambitions/success if you mention music as a hobby, and we apparently need an answer that doesn't just say "I couldn't cut it" or whatever. Since there's this idea that people who make music, yet aren't musically successful, must be failures. So I always fire off about DJ residencies I had and helping this or that artist along the way, studio work making samples for sample packs, etc. A modest resume; but I make it clear: my music is for me. Outside of my Soundcloud tracks I made right out of high school, the only music the world has heard is from competitions. Maybe when I die some random random data archive nerd will come across the rest.