scottburrow
Fractal Fanatic
I can't believe I'm saying this out loud. I have Ben playing churches for over twenty years, that's all I have ever done. But a good friend and drummer texted me last asking if I wanted to join. So now I'm in the process of learning songs for the next couple weeks. I'm extremely excited to play covers, because I have never really done it before in a bar band situation. I hear everyone complain of what a complete waste of time it is and how the scene isn't the same and how the music is boring, or if I play that song one more time, I'm going to kill someone.
see, I've never had the opportunity to have those feelings, so sometimes I feel like I haven't paid my dues. Now granted I played in front of 20,000 people every other weekend for years, but never had the opportunity, to do it to 20 uninterested people in a bar. I know it sounds silly, but I'm done making excuses, on why I'm too good for that.
so this is what happend, I searched google the other day if Christian musicians should play secular music, and iI got to a site where the guy was kind of saying no in a way or I was reading it as if he was being kind of legalistic about the thing, so after much care, I wrote back to. This is what I said.
"I always heard that there wasn't a thing called Christian music, but Christian lyrics, the last I remembered a-g was just a music thing. I have always planned to play bars at some point in my life, as the people I play for are already taken care of supposedly, I need to hangout where the streets are. No preaching, no legalistic crap, just play and be me."
I said a lot more, but I'm not telling you to preach to you either. That site was a Christian musician site, so I went on for awhile.
so the very next day, not thinking much about what I wrote, I get a text from a buddy.
"Scott, you want to join a band"
When I get this, I start freaking out, ok the man upstairs is calling me out because of what I wrote on a national website, he's like you wrote it, now its time to step up to the plate.
so I texted back.
"what's wrong with your current guitar player"
See, I'm already trying to get out of it some how.
he says
"he's a drunk and becoming non interested"
trying to get out of it again.
"you know they have conselors for this kind of thing, maybe he needs help"
he says
"We need you"
crap, I didn't want to hear that.
So I go and check them out, this past friday with their current guitar player, and you know what this guy is pretty good and I actually remember when I was in high school, he was good back then too.
anyway, some observations of being on the outside for so long. What's happened to the music scene. There where maybe at most 5 people interested in the music, about 10 others huddled around the tv watching sports, a few people at the pool tables and the last few playing darts.
dead, dead, dead, I guess that's the point above where you start to hate this stuff after awhile. The lethargic state of the business of music. It's like the music is all around us, so why should they pay attention to it, when its being played by live musicians in the room. At least at church, they have to get through me, before they get to the preacher. A commanding audience.
so long story short, I'm learning songs and in a few weeks I'll hook up with them and start getting this thing off the ground. I'm extremely excited, because I can't remember the last time I played to 5 people.
see, I've never had the opportunity to have those feelings, so sometimes I feel like I haven't paid my dues. Now granted I played in front of 20,000 people every other weekend for years, but never had the opportunity, to do it to 20 uninterested people in a bar. I know it sounds silly, but I'm done making excuses, on why I'm too good for that.
so this is what happend, I searched google the other day if Christian musicians should play secular music, and iI got to a site where the guy was kind of saying no in a way or I was reading it as if he was being kind of legalistic about the thing, so after much care, I wrote back to. This is what I said.
"I always heard that there wasn't a thing called Christian music, but Christian lyrics, the last I remembered a-g was just a music thing. I have always planned to play bars at some point in my life, as the people I play for are already taken care of supposedly, I need to hangout where the streets are. No preaching, no legalistic crap, just play and be me."
I said a lot more, but I'm not telling you to preach to you either. That site was a Christian musician site, so I went on for awhile.
so the very next day, not thinking much about what I wrote, I get a text from a buddy.
"Scott, you want to join a band"
When I get this, I start freaking out, ok the man upstairs is calling me out because of what I wrote on a national website, he's like you wrote it, now its time to step up to the plate.
so I texted back.
"what's wrong with your current guitar player"
See, I'm already trying to get out of it some how.
he says
"he's a drunk and becoming non interested"
trying to get out of it again.
"you know they have conselors for this kind of thing, maybe he needs help"
he says
"We need you"
crap, I didn't want to hear that.
So I go and check them out, this past friday with their current guitar player, and you know what this guy is pretty good and I actually remember when I was in high school, he was good back then too.
anyway, some observations of being on the outside for so long. What's happened to the music scene. There where maybe at most 5 people interested in the music, about 10 others huddled around the tv watching sports, a few people at the pool tables and the last few playing darts.
dead, dead, dead, I guess that's the point above where you start to hate this stuff after awhile. The lethargic state of the business of music. It's like the music is all around us, so why should they pay attention to it, when its being played by live musicians in the room. At least at church, they have to get through me, before they get to the preacher. A commanding audience.
so long story short, I'm learning songs and in a few weeks I'll hook up with them and start getting this thing off the ground. I'm extremely excited, because I can't remember the last time I played to 5 people.
