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Termyn8or -> RE: Forty-five years already? Wow. Tempus fugit (2/10/2009 5:35:15 PM)
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You get out what you put in. Those years of practice made it possible to have fun, When you get together and it sounds good, that's GREAT. Been there done that.
Unfortunately I have turned down the last couple of jam sessions because I am simply not in the mood. I am over here listening to Hank and George (Williams and Jones) and they want me to come and grind an axe like Judas Priest.
The other problem is our pianist moved to east bumfuct somewhere and can't make it, and I am the one with the piano and I don't like to move it. Actually that wasn't an issue because I left it over there, that is until I heard he had a broad moving in with kids. I picked it up quite quickly. While it was there though, and we had Chris (the pianist who actually looks quite a bit like you HK) would come and did some direction, and played quite well, although we had to amplify the piano with a half a thousand watts to keep up with this insane drummer.........Sometimes we sounded really good.
Thing is, if music is your work you go do it whether you're in the mood or not. Music is not my work so I do it when I feel like it. That's the best time. I'm sure it will happen again, just not right now. It's like sex, in our twenties we were never "not in the mood for it" but now things change.
Y'know it's a shame, years ago I had the creativity to do something. I invented a few things, and actually built some of them. Now I have the means to build just about anything but the ideas are lacking. Life is not fair.
As for the Beatles, whom you seem to adore, they kept on going. Look at many of the groups from like the 1970s, their first album was the best. The rest may have been OK, but they can't top themselves. After many discussions on the subject, the conclusion is that the first album, it took them all their lives to do it. Now they are under contract to come up with an album every one or two years at the least.
Basically they turned play into work. I find some difficulty in thinking that's a good thing.
T
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