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- mg330
It's funny, lately, in terms of my band and being a musician, I have this problem with tricking myself into thinking I'm already too old for all this. But then I punch myself in the face.
I thought about it last night, trying to get my band motivated, really work hard at it this year, make a good new album, get good shows and press, and so on. And I hit on something - I'm jealous of the early 20s kids in bands that just have it all in front of them, that innocence of making music with so little pretension and so little sense of "this is the way it must be done," that open drive of just making a song and loving it and not worrying about what follows.
In contrast though, being 31, there's a ton I've learned about all this, things I and we can do that they couldn't, more money available, more smarts for making decisions and plotting a course, being tactful. I'm the planner of our band and like plenty of other musicians I wake up every day wishing I could figure out the perfect way to get as far as possible with it - give up my working life, play to huge crowds, see the world, etc.
So I thought last night - keep doing it this way - but do so in the mindset of late teens/early 20s again with that blistering enthusiasm for just making a song and loving to play it over and over and over and feed off of how great it is to get in a room or on a stage and hear a song come to life. Figure out how to tell the stories I could have told back then if I were a singer and lyric writer (I only played guitar at that age). Tap into that THING that just makes it perfect for me.
- "that innocence of making music with so little pretension "? Huh. I find pretension is rampant at that age. You lose the pretension s you age...TheBlueOne
- the pretension as you get older.TheBlueOne
- thats what i was thinking.moth
- I can't think of a band of teenagers that i've ever liked.moth