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This is me.
I should not...
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I mean, I didn't even start music lessons until three months ago.
ficelles
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There are lessons?
Jim C
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Recently I was thinking about an old leather coat I had and how many times I had slept in it.
Hotel floors, road cases, friends coach, band van, remote truck. All squeaky clean and healthy!
Hotel floors, road cases, friends coach, band van, remote truck. All squeaky clean and healthy!
soulman
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Hell, they are the best place ever for my grandpa naps. Zzzzzzz
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I should not...
Buy another damn guitar because dammit Jim, I'm a bassist not a guitarist but damn......
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Well, I'm in my 60's and I don't think this, but I do think it's a fun little exercise to see just how much fun I can have with it now that I'm retired and back to playing music. In six years or so I kissed a lot of frogs but I'm enjoying most of what I do now. I'm still a long way from anything like a career in music but I don't really want that.
A friend of mine is about five years younger and he tried to get out of it entirely about four years ago. Now he's playing with an act that has records on the Billboard charts, and I could not be more happy for him. You just never know. In his case I have to think that letting go of his own ideas about what he ought to be doing created an opening in his own head for something different and better.
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I got hired for one band I'm in when the old bass player kept insisting they put a couch in the rehearsal space. BL didn't want him sleeping in the studio so out he went and I got the call.
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The area where I live has beautiful countryside but musically speaking is almost entirely populated by frogs, none of whom I feel much like kissing. A small and very cliquey music scene dominated by male singer-songwriters all armed with acoustic guitars and an earnest set of songs about their youth. Which to me is the musical equivalent of being waterboarded.
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Yep, I'd feel about the same. The talent pool here is pretty shallow, but I've managed to make the best of it, I think. If I really wanted to get more serious about it I'd have to move to the bay area (San Francisco) or be willing to commute that way, which is around 90 minutes. It would not be the end of the world to do that but the payoff would have to be very good.
My friend moved there; ironically his band rehearses here.
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ponchonlefty
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now things are making sense. me, never touch the stuff..... honest.That's cute.
A number of us have posted here WAY past that limit.
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Don't you mean 3 six-packs?
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I have, but I have a tendency to get really stupid really fast.That's cute.
A number of us have posted here WAY past that limit.
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That was the old Jared. These days I try and keep alcohol at arms length and limit it to one or two days a week.
Jim C
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So I'm not the only one with this problem.
I met this really smart woman who had the same issue. She said that now during a work meeting when someone says something ultra stupid / impossible / unlikely / etc. she asks herself:
Does it really need to be said?
Does it need to be said now?
Does it need to be said by me?
That helped me a lot when I was in corporate jobs.
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The first thing to learn is that you don't have to say anything, although when I was very junior in my current career I used to butt heads with a superior over this. She would tell me that I needed to speak up in the weekly meeting so that people know I'm there. I said I'd hold my tongue until it was my turn, or unless I had something worthy of everyone's time.
These are helpful rules but sometimes tricky to apply in the moment (e.g., what is the bar for "need"?). My quick-and-easy filter is "Would it move the conversation forward?"
Different rules may apply in a brainstorming session, but that's very rare in my work these days. So in general, backwards is a no-no, and sideways issues are better handled offline.
These are helpful rules but sometimes tricky to apply in the moment (e.g., what is the bar for "need"?). My quick-and-easy filter is "Would it move the conversation forward?"
Different rules may apply in a brainstorming session, but that's very rare in my work these days. So in general, backwards is a no-no, and sideways issues are better handled offline.
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