None of the poll options are the most important reason why I like play.
Unless you want me to vote as which of those particular options are most important to me, despite the fact that it's not the most important.
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Why do you like to play?
- Thread starter Joe Louvar
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None of the poll options are the most important reason why I like play.
Unless you want me to vote as which of those particular options are most important to me, despite the fact that it's not the most important.
I'll be gigging on my 65th birthday so there must be something to it. I'll be making money while I'm doing it. I'll be playing with people I like. I'll be playing music I like. I've been gigging on and off for 45 years so I must like it. I hope I'm still doing it when I'm 75. Playing out makes me feel 20 years younger. Schlepping my bass amp makes me feel 10 years older. All and all I think I enjoy it.
I voted high from being on stage but there is more to it than that....cause I've also experienced some lows on stage also....'nother thread maybe.
For me it's playing with other people, preferably in performance but not necessarily, rehearsal is good too. It's those times when you are in the flow with the band and everything becomes effortless and the music is tight and every one is grooving off each other. When you are finished the song or the set everybody just looks at each other like "wow". You don't want it to end. That's why I play. For those moments.
For me it's playing with other people, preferably in performance but not necessarily, rehearsal is good too. It's those times when you are in the flow with the band and everything becomes effortless and the music is tight and every one is grooving off each other. When you are finished the song or the set everybody just looks at each other like "wow". You don't want it to end. That's why I play. For those moments.
For me, performing music that I like in front of a good crowd for money is the reason I do it. I can't really separate those factors, they're all important to me and I couldn't pick one over the others, except maybe to say that I wouldn't enjoy performing stuff I didn't like. Luckily I like a wide range of stuff and so all sorts of gigs meet my needs in that respect.
I play because I love music. I play what I can. I make as much as I can. Over the past few years I've let myself play some gigs where the music has no commercial potential, but is enjoyable for the band and for a small but supportive audience.
I play music for the sheer love of the natural high I get from being on stage playing music.
Since my career is civil engineering and I have a very healthy income from that, I don't care at all about money from playing music. And I always want it to stay that way. I don't ever want playing music to turn into a "job" per se. That would be a turn-off for me. I want it to just be fun, and it is!
I recognize that my situation and viewpoint differs from many others, which is fine. We are all different.
Since my career is civil engineering and I have a very healthy income from that, I don't care at all about money from playing music. And I always want it to stay that way. I don't ever want playing music to turn into a "job" per se. That would be a turn-off for me. I want it to just be fun, and it is!
I recognize that my situation and viewpoint differs from many others, which is fine. We are all different.
I thought about it seriously, and the options just don't work for me. I love to play live music that people enjoy with a group I enjoy playing with, and getting paid for it. So I guess all three rolled into one??? No one single element is more important than the others, they're all interconnected.
I play 3 days a week at the Blue Ridge Music Center with a 78 year old fiddler, a 72 year old banjo player, a 68 year old guitarist and a 64 year old mando player. At 63 I am the baby of the group.
This. If I get to play ay church...GREAT, but I am content just playing away for a few hours a nite alone.
I love being stupid in front of large groups of people. It turns out I'm so good at being stupid in front of large groups of people, that other people will pay me money to be stupid in front on large groups of people that are buying food and beverages from the other people that hired me.
I guess my creativity expresses itself in finding ways to be stupid in front of large groups of people........
I guess my creativity expresses itself in finding ways to be stupid in front of large groups of people........
Well, these days I take less crap than I used to. I really don't need the money. But I still won't play for less than $200 out of principle.
It's about all three.
Playing live is kind of a high, but not from a "Look at me I'm cool" standpoint. It's more of a ten thousand things could go wrong in front of this audience, but we will make it work anyway kind of thing.
It's about making and keeping friends.
It's about the money.
In no particular order or rank, it really is about all three.
It's about all three.
Playing live is kind of a high, but not from a "Look at me I'm cool" standpoint. It's more of a ten thousand things could go wrong in front of this audience, but we will make it work anyway kind of thing.
It's about making and keeping friends.
It's about the money.
In no particular order or rank, it really is about all three.
It's kind of an alter ego thing. I'm really kind of shy, and don't mind solitude.
I voted, BTW, but 2 of the options would sum it up.
I voted, BTW, but 2 of the options would sum it up.
Because as a teen it kept me away from drugs, I have something to do/learn in which I could express myself etc. So I devoted a lot of years and countless hours doing scales, exercise, theory, harmony, solfege, history and of course learn to play and reproduce what is on the sheet infront of me.
I like so much to just practice and see that I improve.
I like so much to just practice and see that I improve.
You mean IN PRIVATE you're like some kind of Einstein?
I knew it! I just knew it! All along.
