What have you had to sacrifice for music?

(b)Assman · #1 02-10-2009, 11:33 AM

Just curious. I'm sure some people have quit their jobs, had divorces, moved, lost hobbies etc. etc.

Phalex · #2 02-10-2009, 11:43 AM

Only my soul, but it was pretty dark and dingy looking anyway.

bambambass · #3 02-10-2009, 12:50 PM

I've sacrificed my Friday nights for four years. Pretty small stuff if you compare it to a soul, even if it was dark and dingy looking.

knarleybass · #4 02-10-2009, 12:51 PM

Every weekend of my life and my dignity, the guys I play with treat me like I am an idiot.

MatticusMania · #5 02-10-2009, 01:50 PM

I was at the point, after my band broke up, to where my wife was keeping me from seriously getting another band together. I told her music lasts an eternity, but her boobs would probably be gone in a few years...

ok, I didnt really say that, but I did leave her to focus on my music. (and for a sleu of other reasons)

(b)Assman · #6 02-10-2009, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by MatticusMania

I was at the point, after my band broke up, to where my wife was keeping me from seriously getting another band together. I told her music lasts an eternity, but her boobs would probably be gone in a few years...

ok, I didnt really say that, but I did leave her to focus on my music. (and for a sleu of other reasons)

roffles

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Originally Posted by knarleybass

Every weekend of my life and my dignity, the guys I play with treat me like I am an idiot.

methinks you need to find another band??

Phalex · #7 02-10-2009, 01:58 PM

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Originally Posted by (b)Assman

methinks you need to find another band??

If you do, have the guys you're with now call me!

Jefenator · #8 02-10-2009, 02:07 PM

Cozy middle class existence.

Hoover · #9 02-11-2009, 10:04 AM

A lot of sleep, a few relationships, and any semblence of being "understood" by laypeople.

DumpsterDave · #10 02-11-2009, 11:40 AM

Relationships, regularly sleeping in my bed, nutrition........on the positive side though, I gave up smoking cigs.

Kimpini · #11 02-11-2009, 06:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Phalex

Only my soul, but it was pretty dark and dingy looking anyway.

Dang it! You beat me to it.

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Rattman · #12 02-11-2009, 06:39 PM

Hmmm.. what have I "sacrificed" for love of playing music?? Pretty much what the others have already offered: TIME.. and apparently lots of it. For example.. I'll start a "minor" tweaking project, or some component and wiring upgrade on whatever instrument I feel needs it... when I finally look up to see if it's time to sleep, it might be 2:00 a.m. already...sheesh!!!

brianrost · #13 02-12-2009, 07:35 AM

-- I used to go backpacking a lot, no more.
-- I've cut way down on the amount of bicycling I do.
-- I hardly ever go out to hear music, worse is when I'd like to go hear someone but I have a gig

-- I've had rough patches in my family situation over the years because of gigging.
-- I take shorter vacations so I'll be home on weekends for gigs.

The_Ox · #14 02-12-2009, 07:58 AM

A little bit of my hearing

But I've gained more than I've sacrificed.

MaxRossell · #15 02-12-2009, 08:10 AM

Every job I've ever had, pretty much. I've either quit them because they were stepping all over my music time, or I got sacked from them because I was too distracted by music to do them properly, or too tired from the previous night's gig to come in on time. I even walked out of a job once because a manager was about to chew me out, starting with the line, "look, I don't mind you having whatever hobbies in your spare time..." and I felt so insulted by his referring to music as a "hobby" that I had to leave before I decked him.