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Why do you like to play?
- Thread starter Joe Louvar
- Start date
Many years ago this really hurt our local 292 - and youre hinting on my next poll (in due time).
Playing and writing music is it for me. It's nice to make a few bucks on the side and if it goes somewhere, great! But if it doesn't ill be playing in my room years from now just coming up with cool stuff to play. I always wanted to write stuff that gave people goodebumps. Wanted to make people feel the way I do when I hear music. A goal would be to get out and play for as many people as is possible to get it out there too. But again, if I can't or it doesn't get that far, so be it. I'll always love playing and writing. Me and my band get to play to people now in a small sense, maybe it'll become bigger one day, but if it doesn't I won't ever stop playing.
NOTE: "Because you like making music as a hobby" has been added. This is for those who don’t preform/gig.
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Out of curiosity, I was wondering what the TB majority thinks, so here's a poll ~
What’s "MOST" important to you - being on stage, making money, or playing music you like? Also please feel free to comment but please respect everyone opinion/comments/etc. Thanks
I'll start - Originally for me is was the music, then the money, and now the music again - but I'm not saying money doesn't talk.
EDIT: I know there are many other reason - I just picked what I thought might be the 3 biggest IE, some just play for themselves, etc.
Wow- the thread start before I even finished posting the poll, lol - thanks
I liked playing because I thought I'd have a shot at showing something new in songs. However....most people want to sound like bands that wanted to sound like other groups of bands that attempted to sound like other bands.....
Freekmagnet
Commercial User
I do it because I think I can do something that most people cannot. If someone who can do it is in the room, they still can't do it the way I do. Every interpretation is different. You can watch ten bands play the same song and every time it comes out differently. That's the beauty of what we do. I don't have to be the best in the room, I just have to do it my way.
We are currently living out what feels like the perfect storm of this trend. Modern music is the pinnacle of garbage: no talent, no technicality, created in an anti-intellectual culture, purely for profit.
Unless something changes, it does seem as this is so (w/some exceptions) - and maybe the very trail end too?
Please keep the votes/comments coming everyone - thank you.
Well... hate to be cynical sounding, but it's always been this way. Ever since the invention of the 'tard and the drummer gigging started to lose its fun
.I'm in the simply-like-to-play camp myself. I hate:
- beer bottles everywhere
- cocaine everywhere
- drug dealers
- drunks
- police (breaking up the gig/rehearsal/etc anyway)
- studio owners
- band leaders
- no one at the gig
- some moron coming up on stage and running the band off after 3 songs (who the #### is that guy? He's at every gig...).
- everything turned up to 11/ 155db minimum volume at all times.
Once I realized this wasn't really what I had in mind for how I wanted to make music, I quit playing as a performing artist. After that is when I saw the biggest delta in my skills as a player and general interest in music. I'm perfectly OK as a living-room warrior now - I can play with my amp on "2", everyone's clean, sober and cooperative, and I don't have to deal with the local police department ever.
The other thing is, as a DIY player, I don't have to play music I'm not interested in anymore if I don't want to.
The only drawback I can think of is the lack of direct input from other (clean, sober, well-behaved) musicians. That kind of goes with the territory of electric instruments and modern commercial music, though, so I have to DIY a lot more than I'd like.
Apart from that, I still muchly prefer DIY....
LS
First post. Its my birthday and I'm fixin to say something. Music is a language. Bass players speak a dialect of the music language. I speak bass. I got stuff to say.
For me it's a passion that needs to be expressed to others, money and stage high are just byproducts 
SirMjac28
Patiently Waiting For The Next British Invasion
I love to just play along to my favorite songs I think you actually listen to the songs differently once you start playing along with them for me it never gets old.
Amen brother. I really dig doing the same thing. I know when I first started playing bass I started listening to music in a completely different way. I started breaking all the parts down and dissecting the song. Still do. It's a lot of fun. I'd go insane without my bass, an amp and my music. Life just wouldn't be fair at all.
You're right. It completely changes the way you hear the song. You no longer listen to music the way non-musicians do.
When I was little kid I use to listen to the radio and 45 records with my older brother, and I use to hear the music as a whole - it wasn’t until I was taught music and how to play before I could hear each instrument individually - and then it took a while to train my ear/brain how to listen either way - as a whole and or separate instruments/audio voicing. Ear training is good.
Thanks for the comments and for voting.
Thanks for the comments and for voting.
