No-one knows why music works better after midnight but it doesn't matter much to me as I'm just glad I can do it again now. There's something of a psychic hurricane that blows all day but it diminishes as the night gets deeper and that's when the music can come. Since there are people awake all the time somewhere around the world, I have no good explanation for why it should diminish at night but so it goes.
Playing just now felt like a real guitar guy and even the piano was feeling good. I disconnected the second synth from the guitar and that seems to have solved a mysterious distortion problem so it was a very good midnight vibe.
Doing the way I do it is very difficult and it's almost impossible until you get to the point of accepting that you're always going to hate everything you ever recorded. It doesn't go this way with everyone but for some it does and, after all this time, I'm accustomed to it. Getting accustomed to it can be painful.
The whole objective is to make up a song list like the big kids and then tour around playing those songs that people now love and then angels fly you into Music Heaven.
Maybe that's the whole objective ... or not. If it is your objective then it's no problem as you're probably already writing the songs to do it and hopefully they work. I hope it's a good flight.
If it's not your objective and you don't really grasp that yet then it's hard to find what you ought to be doing. You try making stuff but wind up hating it and keep thinking, man, what the hell am I doing wrong.
You're not doing anything wrong. This is what drives you to make new stuff as it's the only way for people like us to be satisfied. It's the same thing that drove you to play in the first place in that you hated it that you couldn't. Maybe it sucks that it will always be this way but the other side is that it means you will always be playing something new.
It will take a bit to get used to playing again at night but it's definitely going to be good.
Playing just now felt like a real guitar guy and even the piano was feeling good. I disconnected the second synth from the guitar and that seems to have solved a mysterious distortion problem so it was a very good midnight vibe.
Doing the way I do it is very difficult and it's almost impossible until you get to the point of accepting that you're always going to hate everything you ever recorded. It doesn't go this way with everyone but for some it does and, after all this time, I'm accustomed to it. Getting accustomed to it can be painful.
The whole objective is to make up a song list like the big kids and then tour around playing those songs that people now love and then angels fly you into Music Heaven.
Maybe that's the whole objective ... or not. If it is your objective then it's no problem as you're probably already writing the songs to do it and hopefully they work. I hope it's a good flight.
If it's not your objective and you don't really grasp that yet then it's hard to find what you ought to be doing. You try making stuff but wind up hating it and keep thinking, man, what the hell am I doing wrong.
You're not doing anything wrong. This is what drives you to make new stuff as it's the only way for people like us to be satisfied. It's the same thing that drove you to play in the first place in that you hated it that you couldn't. Maybe it sucks that it will always be this way but the other side is that it means you will always be playing something new.
It will take a bit to get used to playing again at night but it's definitely going to be good.
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