Garry Sharp
Lost Cause
Well, yes, I'm kind of wondering myself..... not the easiest time at the moment, but you'll find a way forward and so will we. I wonder where we'll be a year from now?
Garry Sharp said:Reading through this thread again (thanks mrx for nice words by the way ) it occurs to me that I have a slightly different approach, which doesn't centre around "absolute" levels of "good" or "bad", but whether I am learning and improving. I have just broken up my band (so I really empathise with mrx's starting again), parting with the drummer and guitarist not because they weren't "good" enough - they were OK, and anyway I really liked them as people - but there were no signs of improvement over the last few months' rehearsals. We just weren't getting anywhere new; we weren't producing anything that stood out. I learnt a huge amount from putting together, and gigging, an originals band but diminishing returns had set in.
So for what it's worth my view is that it helps more to ask "Is this better - tighter, more original, interesting, arresting etc., than what i was doing a year ago?" than to say "Is this better than x?"
Anyway, a contribution to the debate rather than an emphatic point.
Garry Sharp said:I wonder where we'll be a year from now?
Garry Sharp said:I wonder where we'll be a year from now?
eg Lou Read is not the world's most powerful singer, but hasn't stopped him having a career because his voice is distinctive and he writes FOR his own voice. Bob Dylan's another example.
Garry Sharp said:Anyway, how are you getting on mrx?
mrx said:'my god, why doesn't his wife stop him...' (Kind of sounds like karaoke...)