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Do you ever put yourself to sleep?

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Gundybass

May 16, 2019
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Minnesota
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I grew up in the 60's and 70's - In 2019 I'm still slightly growing. Late at night when my wife is asleep and my son is playing xbox -- I grab one of my basses and plug into the Ampeg Rocket. For some reason I always have to play some of Dazed and Confused - The Ocean - and Pink Floyd Money. Then I start creating my own incredible riffs and runs. As I slip into tiredness I think that I really should be recording this because it is really quite good and I will never remember it tomorrow. Then I get drowsy - my bass gets heavy - and I go to bed. I repeat this over and over - I dub myself the Groundhogs Day Bass Player. Do any of you experience this? I'm considering afternoon caffeine.
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Gundybass said:
I grew up in the 60's and 70's - In 2019 I'm still slightly growing. Late at night when my wife is asleep and my son is playing xbox -- I grab one of my basses and plug into the Ampeg Rocket. For some reason I always have to play some of Dazed and Confused - The Ocean - and Pink Floyd Money. Then I start creating my own incredible riffs and runs. As I slip into tiredness I think that I really should be recording this because it is really quite good and I will never remember it tomorrow. Then I get drowsy - my bass gets heavy - and I go to bed. I repeat this over and over - I dub myself the Groundhogs Day Bass Player. Do any of you experience this? I'm considering afternoon caffeine.
Gundybass
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No, I'm kind of an insomniac and my practice amp is right next to the bed and my wife is also asleep for some reason, bass at 12-1 am bothers her when she's sleeping, not sure why?
 
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TolerancEJ said:
Not everyone shares my sense of humor, but I would find it quite amusing if you post this exact thread every day.
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I grew up in the 60's and 70's - In 2019 I'm still slightly growing. Late at night when my wife is asleep and my son is playing xbox -- I grab one of my basses and plug into the Ampeg Rocket. For some reason I always have to play some of Dazed and Confused - The Ocean - and Pink Floyd Money. Then I start creating my own incredible riffs and runs. As I slip into tiredness I think that I really should be recording this because it is really quite good and I will never remember it tomorrow. Then I get drowsy - my bass gets heavy - and I go to bed. I repeat this over and over - I dub myself the Groundhogs Day Bass Player. Do any of you experience this? I'm considering afternoon caffeine.
Gundybass

And -- if I get several likes each time I post it I will soon be one of the most likeable guys on TB.:)
 
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Not quite my experience. I often play my bass just before retiring for the day. And as I get drowsy I find I come up with some really nice riffs. I force myself to stop and write them down. Then I go to bed. The next morning I wake up anxious to try out those riffs again - I pull out my notes and........


They're JUNK! Seemed so good last night, but they are trite, derivative junk. Maybe tonight.....
 
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UNICORN BASS said:
I have vivid dreams of creating and playing incredible bass lines, sometimes not even on basses. Then i wake up.
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I've been there! Playing in dreams, I'm almost always in the zone- I can hear everything around me, anticipate what's coming up, improvise beautifully on the fly... IRL? Not so much. I mean, it happens, but it's fleeting. I like it when I'm there, though!
 
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Not quite my experience. I often play my bass just before retiring for the day. And as I get drowsy I find I come up with some really nice riffs. I force myself to stop and write them down. Then I go to bed. The next morning I wake up anxious to try out those riffs again - I pull out my notes and........


They're JUNK! Seemed so good last night, but they are trite, derivative junk. Maybe tonight.....
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I am always amazed at the beautiful simplicity of a good riff.

Every time listen to the 1st few Black Sabbath albums I think "holy crap! I should be able to come up with something like that"
 
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Gundybass said:
I grew up in the 60's and 70's - In 2019 I'm still slightly growing. Late at night when my wife is asleep and my son is playing xbox -- I grab one of my basses and plug into the Ampeg Rocket. For some reason I always have to play some of Dazed and Confused - The Ocean - and Pink Floyd Money. Then I start creating my own incredible riffs and runs. As I slip into tiredness I think that I really should be recording this because it is really quite good and I will never remember it tomorrow. Then I get drowsy - my bass gets heavy - and I go to bed. I repeat this over and over - I dub myself the Groundhogs Day Bass Player. Do any of you experience this? I'm considering afternoon caffeine.
Gundybass

And -- if I get several likes each time I post it I will soon be one of the most likeable guys on TB.:)
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This one was posted 2 hrs 33 minutes early though. What's up with that?

I play myself to sleep pretty often. At least a handful of times I have managed to just barely catch the bass and stop it from falling onto the floor as I was startled awake by the sensation of slumping over and dropping the bass.
 
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I remember More or less falling asleep at a recording studio while tracking a song. It was about the umpteenth run through of The song, on the mellow side for my band so I was seated, about 2AM, and I was drifting into a bit of a dream state. Kept playing. It was that state where you aren't sure that what's going on is happening, or your dreaming, etc.
 
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Happens to me all the time. I get a riff or melodic idea, or some lyrics in my head, while I’m driving or doing something where I just can’t stop; or I’ll have trouble sleeping and plug in and things will really take off, most which I’ll forget shortly after I’ve played them.

It used to bother me. A lot.

But then, one day I realized that if that was what was constantly happening with me…then there must be plenty more where that came from. Hmm…

After that I stopped worrying about the ones that got away. Creativity isn’t something we only have a finite supply of. The more you exercise it, the healthier and more prolific it gets.

My feeling about my own creative bursts is that it’s not like they're the last starship departing Earth. They're more like the Metro. You miss the first train out, you just hang a bit and catch the next one.

Like the Kiki Dee song so famously said:

Feel funky!
Feel good!
Gonna tell ya
I'm in the neighborhood.

Gonna fly like a bird on the wing
Hold on to your hat honey,
Sing, sing, sing, sing.

I heat up, I cool down
I got words in my head so I say them.
Don't let life get me down
I catch a hold of my blues and just play them.

I got the music in me…
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Yep. That last line sounds just about right to me. :)
 
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