What kinds of ups and downs have you had in your musical lifestyle?
Do you wish you even had a musical lifestyle?
Are there times when the music makes you really happy or really sad?
Tell us about it (if you feel like it)...
Personally,
Some of the biggest ups and downs I experienced in my musical life:
1) 2 buddies of mine taught me a lot of musical tricks and shared their DAW hardware with me. We lived and breathed music all the time with jokes and sharing tracks and remixing each others stuff and sharing jukebox tunes.
2) Then they got caught up in drugs (I didn't know about it at the time) and one of them got murdered during a drug deal and the other one confessed a serious crime of a different nature to me. So I lost both friends, one due to death, and the other because it was no longer safe nor pleasurable for me to hang around with him. That was a huge loss.
Both of them were extremely talented musicians and didn't need to be caught up that kind of drama. It was a lpersonal loss for me because they'd been friends and taught me so much about hands-on music. They had jointly bought some really fancy music gear, but they were generous when they let me use it. They taught me a lot of performance and overdubbing tricks too. I probably taught them a few things too.
3) Going to sound engineering school was a big perk. It was easy passing classes because I was totally interested in the class material all of the time, even when I was at home. I also had a lot of subscriptions to electronic music magazines to keep my mind busy. At that time, I was reading....
Electronic Musician
Computer Music
Sound On Sound
Keyboard Magazine
Mix Magazine
EQ Magazine
College Monthly Journal (CMJ)
Future Music
And sometimes I peeked at URB, Punk Planet or Billboard Magazine.
It was a great time to be learning (the 1990s). That was one of the up times.
Music Lifestyle Ups and Downs
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- KVRian
- 991 posts since 24 May, 2024
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- KVRian
- 843 posts since 23 Feb, 2023
You sound like you are about 50 years old then, just a guess... I am quite a bit older so I played bass from 1975-1984 all thru HS including upright... Tried at one time to join air force jazz band but my sight reading was not good enough (fast enough) so failed... Was in many bands that went nowhere, you know, slingblade sorta porch-garage bands... Can't say I miss it much... What a pain to haul the equipment around, the shitty cords & buzzing pick-ups whilst the piccolo player had a case not much bigger than an eyeglass case (HS Band)... Then having to deal with personalities-gripes in the various bands or other musicians being better or worse than you...
In one instance was in a band that was playing some AWB tunes & the guitarist & singer started arguing over a passage so the drummer started farting around on his setup then all-of-a-sudden just leaped-smashed thru his set ruining a number of his equipment then thrashing all over makin' it worse... We were freaked so called an ambulance but he was an epileptic & had not taken required medication... Got the argument stopped though..
Back in high school we were on a bus to go do a state competition in band in which I played upright & sometimes timpani... Going up a mountain pass the bus started missing then broke down completely, one of the students had to hitchike back to a payphone, in the meantime we all had to stay on the bus but someone in the back yelled out "HEY!! There's MONEY out there!!!"" & tried as hard the Band teacher to keep us in we just all blew past him... Bigger than shit there was over $800 in various bills off the side of road in the ravine & down in the swampy area, nope I didn't find any!... Alotta dough for 1979...
In one instance was in a band that was playing some AWB tunes & the guitarist & singer started arguing over a passage so the drummer started farting around on his setup then all-of-a-sudden just leaped-smashed thru his set ruining a number of his equipment then thrashing all over makin' it worse... We were freaked so called an ambulance but he was an epileptic & had not taken required medication... Got the argument stopped though..
Back in high school we were on a bus to go do a state competition in band in which I played upright & sometimes timpani... Going up a mountain pass the bus started missing then broke down completely, one of the students had to hitchike back to a payphone, in the meantime we all had to stay on the bus but someone in the back yelled out "HEY!! There's MONEY out there!!!"" & tried as hard the Band teacher to keep us in we just all blew past him... Bigger than shit there was over $800 in various bills off the side of road in the ravine & down in the swampy area, nope I didn't find any!... Alotta dough for 1979...
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 991 posts since 24 May, 2024
heh interesting.
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- KVRian
- 843 posts since 23 Feb, 2023
Ok let's throw this in then...
Back in 1973-4 before I went whole-hog into music my Mother used to go to a small church & was befriended by a guy who we would have over for lunch on occasion... His name was either Walter or Victor Willis... Well he invited us over to his place for lunch & when we got there apologizing for his son 'beating on his drums' a bit later his son came up for air & greeted us in pleasant fashion looking just like his dad (short maybe 5'6") but with long hair... Afterward his dad lamented how his son would not get a job 'at the mill', etc..
A year or two later learned his son had gone to San Franshithole to go to sound engineering school then basically starved after that, ended up as drummer in a band called Seafood Mama which then became later the band QuarterFlash & sure enough there he was in the MTV videos drumming away - Brian Willis...
Back in 1973-4 before I went whole-hog into music my Mother used to go to a small church & was befriended by a guy who we would have over for lunch on occasion... His name was either Walter or Victor Willis... Well he invited us over to his place for lunch & when we got there apologizing for his son 'beating on his drums' a bit later his son came up for air & greeted us in pleasant fashion looking just like his dad (short maybe 5'6") but with long hair... Afterward his dad lamented how his son would not get a job 'at the mill', etc..
A year or two later learned his son had gone to San Franshithole to go to sound engineering school then basically starved after that, ended up as drummer in a band called Seafood Mama which then became later the band QuarterFlash & sure enough there he was in the MTV videos drumming away - Brian Willis...