There won't be a report this morning as I will only post positive ones even if some I have posted lately weren't regarded by some as all that positive (laughs). I thought they were and there won't ever be any malice in what I write about them as I like to spend my time in front of a microphone too and I don't need the mindless juvenile backbiting in Second Life any more than anyone else.
Cat hatte Gewittern in Deutschland / Cat had thunderstorms in Germany ... but she did arrive and we danced:
However, last evening I did work up some stuff of my own as I have one part of "MuFOFu" in the looper and I like the chords. It needs a second part and I hope to play with that today but I need to go into Pyrgos this morning for some victuals and maybe some video in traffic.
Here's what's been hot on the blog in the last twenty-four hours:
Evolution of Eohippus (Horse) - Smackdown of Creationist 'science' but not a smackdown of spirituality.
Thrill Riding at Night in Greece (video) - This is the one that got me busted with Cat for reckless driving and rightly so. It's still fun to watch, tho (laughs).
The Hazard in Feeding the Cats (video) - This one is funny and features Simon's Cat.
Demon Cat (picture) - Yah, a cat picture of one of the ones outside. I run cat pics too! Ha!
"X Japan" - Yoshiki (video) - This one has been out there for a while and X Japan is only one of the best rock bands in the world.
Cat hatte Gewittern in Deutschland / Cat had thunderstorms in Germany ... but she did arrive and we danced:
However, last evening I did work up some stuff of my own as I have one part of "MuFOFu" in the looper and I like the chords. It needs a second part and I hope to play with that today but I need to go into Pyrgos this morning for some victuals and maybe some video in traffic.
Here's what's been hot on the blog in the last twenty-four hours:
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Jan 25, 2013
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Feb 25, 2013
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Feb 12, 2013, 2 comments
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Evolution of Eohippus (Horse) - Smackdown of Creationist 'science' but not a smackdown of spirituality.
Thrill Riding at Night in Greece (video) - This is the one that got me busted with Cat for reckless driving and rightly so. It's still fun to watch, tho (laughs).
The Hazard in Feeding the Cats (video) - This one is funny and features Simon's Cat.
Demon Cat (picture) - Yah, a cat picture of one of the ones outside. I run cat pics too! Ha!
"X Japan" - Yoshiki (video) - This one has been out there for a while and X Japan is only one of the best rock bands in the world.
2 comments:
I appreciate your music reports on the circus and while I don't comment I read them all. I personally have no trouble with you writing about me, but I guess after the fourth or fifth show there's only so many new things to write without repeating yourself. Admitedly as it takes me a lot of time to learn covers and even longer to have the inspiration to write originals, my pool of things to play isn't nearly as large as a singer who strums chords or an improviser and my shows do sound the same after a while.
I've never been a fan of rating and comparing musicians such as the website Second Rater, or the flawed SL awards ceremonies which are based on popularity alone (but I guess are fun for the sake of dressing up and having an event). The good thing I saw about the Second Life music scene is that no matter what standard you are there is always an audience ready for them. It ranges from professional world touring musicians down to those with no musical training who are interested and brave enough to start singing in public at karaoke open mic events.
It's kind of a double edged sword as your choice to not write a report if it wasn't going to be positive makes me wonder if my show was too bad for words to describe, hehe. Aside from the usual areas to improve on I think it was better than other recent shows I have done at the circus. Having seen in SL how other musicians thrive while I flounder, I'm well aware of my inabilities to be the full package of a musician. Being very introverted, unable to relate to people well and my own worst critic has led to me now only performing in SL and not outside of my bedroom. One day maybe I have dreams of being able to live with my SL and RL partner who is across the pond and we'd be able to work together to make even small RL shows a possibility. My plans to move nearer to my local city in England when I can support myself will help with that too.
Thank you and I really do appreciate it as I have no idea who reads this stuff! I see numbers but Mark Twain told us a long time that there are lies, damned lies, and statistics!
For my taste, I will get behind originals a lot more easily than cover songs unless they're radically different from the original version of the song. Cat's tastes are quite similar and I'm sure it's no surprise that we talk about music quite a bit. I'm old and I've forgotten more of my songs than I remember but your list still grows over time. I wouldn't worry about that at all.
I strongly believe that rating musicians is a horrendous thing to do and staging these mock competitions is insulting to everyone involved. I also believe that it's destructive when individuals do it as I'm sure you want to sound like James Corachea and not sound like someone else. You have developed years developing your style and, in my view, it undermines your work when someone says, oh, that sounds like so-and-so.
No, of course I didn't think your show was too bad for words but I didn't think you were as much on top of your set as I had previously heard you. I didn't have any constructive way to say that so I thought best to say nothing. I'm very clear that my perception of the music may be flawed so that as well is why I thought it best to say nothing.
Something I can tell you definitely is that I have been incredibly shy in my life and it was quite a few years before I would ever let anyone hear me play. If anyone came into the room I would immediately stop. Second Life was one of the biggest aids in getting past that as, by then, it wasn't as bad as it had been when I was young but Second Life nevertheless gave a huge boost to my confidence, my stage presence, and my willingness to try out things for an audience I knew would appreciate what I was doing.
What I strongly recommend is to try to be more engaging with the audience in chatting them up a little bit between songs. You will find that the same people will come back to your shows and everyone likes to be recognized. That doesn't mean you have to stroke anyone but saying hello isn't a bad thing at all and I suspect you will be surprised at how enjoyable it is to do it when you get comfortable with it. I got to doing it so much that people would tell me to shut up and play but it was all fun by that point. Second Life is an excellent way to develop the stage presence that will help you enormously when you break out into the real world and, sure as hell, you will do it! Eventually I broke out and did a big hall solo show in Cincinnati a few years back and I never dreamed I would do such a thing but it was massive fun. Dream big, it just might happen!
At the risk of going on too long, one of the biggest differences between SL and an RL gig is that you can easily tell who is in the virtual audience but the lights make it almost impossible to tell who is out there in an RL show. That kind of intimacy is quite a wonderful thing! I wish you the best of luck and I admire your courage in stepping out with a style of music that goes far apart from the incredibly cheesy pop culture. That's a beautiful thing and I do hope you will continue with it.
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