Robboman
Fractal Fanatic
Maybe it depends how you define "playing". Does picking up a guitar and noodling for 5 to 10 min count? Because I do that many times daily, even in down periods where I go months without actually writing or recording.
I haven't gigged or had a band practice since March 2020, but all this working from home from my studio DAW PC while surrounded by guitars has my noodling at an all-time high frequency. I'm ashamed to admit this here, but even though my FM3 is right beside me, more often than not I'll grab a guitar off the wall and noodle unplugged.
I've been in local weekend bands for 30 years, but never fulltime as a career. In 2018/19 I was in 3 different bands with each one trying to practice or gig weekly. Was back down to focus on one band in 2020 up until Covid. At the beginning I thought I would go crazy missing band activities, but I really didn't. I just kind of settled into the new routine.
Now the 3rd wave of Covid has only recently peaked up here (Canada is way behind the US in vaccinations). Gigs could be possible again by summer and you'd think I'd be chomping at the bit, but... I'm really not so much. Besides It seems like most of the venues have shut down permanently over the past year, and honestly it was not that great a scene before. At least not for aging local guitar bands.
Hmm.. maybe I AM just about done "playing"? We'll see. For sure though, I'll never stop owning guitars and noodling every day. NEVAHHH!
I haven't gigged or had a band practice since March 2020, but all this working from home from my studio DAW PC while surrounded by guitars has my noodling at an all-time high frequency. I'm ashamed to admit this here, but even though my FM3 is right beside me, more often than not I'll grab a guitar off the wall and noodle unplugged.
I've been in local weekend bands for 30 years, but never fulltime as a career. In 2018/19 I was in 3 different bands with each one trying to practice or gig weekly. Was back down to focus on one band in 2020 up until Covid. At the beginning I thought I would go crazy missing band activities, but I really didn't. I just kind of settled into the new routine.
Now the 3rd wave of Covid has only recently peaked up here (Canada is way behind the US in vaccinations). Gigs could be possible again by summer and you'd think I'd be chomping at the bit, but... I'm really not so much. Besides It seems like most of the venues have shut down permanently over the past year, and honestly it was not that great a scene before. At least not for aging local guitar bands.
Hmm.. maybe I AM just about done "playing"? We'll see. For sure though, I'll never stop owning guitars and noodling every day. NEVAHHH!