were you destined to play music?

pyroponic · #1 02-02-2011, 08:21 AM

Just wondering how common it is for people to have a dreamlike experience at a very young age, <5 years old. In which you are shown or experience playing a musical instrument or singing or something similar. And then years later, 10 even 15 years later it all comes rushing back the moment you first play that particular instrument or piece of music? Anybody have anything like this happen in their life?

*completely serious question*

NKUSigEp · #2 02-02-2011, 08:24 AM

No. I was destined to play major league baseball but I got sidetracked with football and somehow ended up playing bass. I don't know what happened...

HeadyVan Halen · #3 02-02-2011, 08:25 AM

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Originally Posted by NKUSigEp

No. I was destined to play major league baseball but I got sidetracked with football and somehow ended up playing bass. I don't know what happened...

Are you me?

plangentmusic · #4 02-02-2011, 08:29 AM

Nobody is. Some people think they are. That doesn't mean they're special. Some of the most dedicated musicians I know are pretty untalented.

I know I was destined to do something artistic. That's just me. I was an art major who got into music and later in life did acting, writing and producing.

Sometimes I think it's just because I think working a real job sucks.

NKUSigEp · #5 02-02-2011, 08:40 AM

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Originally Posted by HeadyVan Halen

Are you me?

I don't know. I could be.

rockstarbassist · #6 02-02-2011, 08:44 AM

I started piano at 4, so basically yeah LOL. I've never taken a break from formal playing though in the last 25+ years though.

Cannabass · #7 02-02-2011, 09:22 AM

yeah ya know just fulfilling my destiny..

tangentmusic · #8 02-02-2011, 09:31 AM

I dont think so. I do know as a kid I really loved the Beatles (as millions did). They got me wanting to play music at an early age (as millions did!)

djaydjay · #9 02-02-2011, 09:35 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0_vu
sorry

I actually did read something way more interesting (and scientific) than what wikipedia has to offer, but it is in a book and not available on the net.

snyderz · #10 02-02-2011, 09:47 AM

Raised by a professional musician. Music played in the house daily. Of course I rebelled. Didn't really get serious about music until in my 30s. Took up bass in my 50s. Play in a gigging band the last 4 years, and couldn't live without it.

AcidFripp · #11 02-02-2011, 10:12 AM

>Implying destiny exists

chad.planet · #12 02-02-2011, 10:25 AM

Your mother was meant so play music in my pants

electracoyote · #13 02-02-2011, 10:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pyroponic

Just wondering how common it is for people to have a dreamlike experience at a very young age, <5 years old. In which you are shown or experience playing a musical instrument or singing or something similar. And then years later, 10 even 15 years later it all comes rushing back the moment you first play that particular instrument or piece of music? Anybody have anything like this happen in their life?

*completely serious question*

Yep. My earliest childhood memories are a fascination with music and a desire to make music and be a performer/entertainer.

Since then, it has been a struggle to maintain a steady outlet of musical expression in my life, the "real world" has a way of trying to stomp out our fires and passions. Ten years ago, I retired from public education and have been doing music full-time ever since.

Never say never, and dreams do not have expiration dates. And I'm just getting warmed up.

Completely serious answer.

pgolliher · #14 02-02-2011, 10:36 AM

There were two other neighborhood kids that I had a "air" band with when we were pretty young. We would steal our older brother's records and turn on a blinking emergency road light in a dark room for our "concerts". We called ourselves "Klam", not out of some sort of derogatory reference, but quite simply because Styx was popular then and we were so young and naive that we thought that they were misspelling "Sticks" and Clam with a "K" was the only thing we could come up with. We would rock out to Rush "Fly By Night" (Bytor and the Snow Dog was our big closer). Even back then I knew that I wanted to play bass and that it was different than guitar. Years later whan I was in my early twenties we had Christmas dinner with our family friends in the old neighborhood and sure enough the boy that I was friends with grew up to be a drummer. We walked down the street to grab our third member who grew up to play guitar. Luckily, the drummer's band had all their gear at his house, so that night after over ten years in the making "Klam" got to finally play for real. I wouldn't say that we were destined to play music, but I definitely feel that the exposure and awareness we had as kids to music really drew all three of us to it.

EdHunter · #15 02-02-2011, 10:41 AM

Yep...

CannyBusDriver · #16 02-02-2011, 10:46 AM

its called too much mescaline (not that there is such thing)

onosson · #17 02-02-2011, 10:55 AM

I do think I was destined to play music - not in either the "I'm so talented" or the "I love it so much" ways, though.

I was put in keyboard lessons when I was 5. Most of the kids I grew up with played music - I mean like easily 2/3 of my friends in jr. high and high school. I've been in bands since starting bass at age 14 - after playing organ, tenor sax, guitar and briefly trying drums. I've made my living since I was 18 from gigging, at least 80% anyways (I did take a year off from it when my daughter was born). I've supported my family on it - my kids turn 10 & 6 this year.

But, I've never felt that "music is my dream" feeling that people talk about. I never decided to be a musician, or seek a career in music. It just happened that way - in fact I often (half)-joke that I've been quitting the music business for 10 years! So I guess that I'm destined to be a musician, since I can't seem to stop...

dalkowski · #18 02-02-2011, 11:06 AM

I've always enjoyed playing. Does that count?

Jhengsman · #19 02-02-2011, 01:25 PM

As a child I thought I was destined to play basketball for UCLA. Music came because in the 7th grade and again in the 10th grade I was put in a beginning woodwinds class and not an art class.

meatwad · #20 02-02-2011, 01:34 PM

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Originally Posted by onosson

I guess that I'm destined to be a musician, since I can't seem to stop...

+1

That kinda sums it up for me. People around me wouldn't let me quit, even when I wanted to. At times it has felt like a curse rather than destiny, but deep inside I always know that playing bass has been a blessing in my life.