You may be a musician if...

Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if...
From: Cool Beans
Date: 15 May 03 - 12:40 PM

You have a favorite chord. Mine's B7 (on the guitar).

Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if...
From: denise:^)
Date: 15 May 03 - 04:18 PM

You try to 'sneak' an instrument "upgrade" into the house when no one's home, hoping that the family won't notice it's not the same one you've had all along...

Denise:^)

Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if...
From: Thomas the Rhymer
Date: 15 May 03 - 06:24 PM

You take a lot of crap from people who 'subtly' imply whenever possible, that you are semi worthless, and can't be helped because your practicing takes up so much of your time... then saying that you ought to spend more energy trying to "make it" or be a "one hit wonder".

How many ways are there to be sucessful?

ttr

Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if...
From: Cluin
Date: 15 May 03 - 08:57 PM

Just one, Tom. Be yourself. You cain't hardly fail then, sez I.

Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if...
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 May 03 - 10:07 PM

MY favorite chord is that lost one....

Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if...
From: denise:^)
Date: 15 May 03 - 11:37 PM

If your family suggests (or implies) to you that you might be able to get some friends, if you weren't always hanging around with those MUSICIANS, playing music!!

(A friend of mine's family told him that. His response--"Huh?")

Denise:^)

Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if...
From: GUEST
Date: 16 May 03 - 08:05 AM

...your musical obsession has led to at least one wrecked marriage and more than a few wrecked relationships.

Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if...
From: *daylia*
Date: 16 May 03 - 08:15 AM

... your obsession with marriage and other close relationships has stalled at least one musical career.

Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if...
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 16 May 03 - 10:13 AM

You start a thread about music and call it a "BS" thread because it's not seriously about music.

Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if...
From: Mooh
Date: 16 May 03 - 10:21 AM

...you repeatedly blow off your day job (if you're either lucky enough to have one, or unfortunate enough to need one) to take gigs, even unpaid ones.

...you attend the day job with discman on and mostly unaware of your surroundings.

...you forget to go to that day job on occassion.

...unlike the statistical norm, you surf the internet at work for music not porn.

...the only reason for a day job is to work the least number of hours and still qualify for the benefit plan.

Holy Moly Molly...this thread hit close to home!

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if...
From: katlaughing
Date: 16 May 03 - 10:36 AM

Adding to khandu's way up there at the top:

when your friend and you figure out what key the cat sings in so you can pitch a song in its range, record it, and mix it in...

you don't write letters to your dad, just send him lyric sheets and printed out Mudcat threads with scribbled "I love you's" on the margins..

You know your SO is finally becoming one, too, instead of just an appreciative listener when you hear him sing for the first time in your 24 years together and it's his own made up songs for the dog!

all of your well-meaning family and friends, who don't really understand what music it is you're *into*, tell you about every possible concert, venue, gig, karaoke, etc. there is, expecting you to run right out tho them all...

Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if...
From: GUEST,Dave
Date: 16 May 03 - 08:39 PM

If you've got callouses on your fingers you're doing it all wrong.
other than that,i can say that pursuing music as a profession has brought me nothing but debt,poverty and the company of idiots.
still better than a 9-5 though.
good luck!

Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if...
From: *daylia*
Date: 17 May 03 - 09:41 AM

" other than that,i can say that pursuing music as a profession has brought me nothing but debt,poverty and the company of idiots."

Dave, maybe try marketing yourself as a "Boy Toy". You know - teach your lips the pucker-pout, bat your eyelashes, wear a little spandex (as little as possible without risking arrest), bare your navel, stick out your chest enough to throw your vertebrae out of alignment, wave your butt enticingly, practice navigating your newly-transformed and *oh-so-sexy* self around the stage in 10-inch heels etc.

Might help out with the money thing (just ask Madonna!), and as far as the company goes - if you can't beat 'em, join 'em!   

;)    daylia

Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if...
From: Ely
Date: 17 May 03 - 09:51 PM

You buy a car based on whether or not it will accomodate a bass fiddle (I had a friend who did this).




You can't tolerate people with trult awful taste. I'm about ready to strangle my Jimmy Buffett-obsessed boss--how many times can I listen to "Why Don't We Get Drunk and [Spoon]" (he has the bowdlerized radio version)? What saves me is that one of the other veterinarians is a guitarist so we hole up in surgery with Etta Baker, Norman Blake, and Doc Watson and ignore everyone else.

Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if...
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 18 May 03 - 08:12 PM

...you start singing along with recorded music and don't even know you're doing it for a while. (I do this.)

Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if...
From: Gloredhel
Date: 19 May 03 - 12:42 AM

You buy a car because it you can fit your harp in it. The harp, which was ten years old, cost as much as the car, which was new.

You're singing hymns in church, and mentally doing the Roman-numeral analysis.

Non-musicians don't want to date you because, even though you're nice and good-looking, they don't know what you're talking about most of the time.

You consider buying a book of pieces for four-hand piano because sightreading them would be a fun date with your s.o.

You lust after someone who's not good looking and is thirty years your senior, because he plays really well.

You and your music friends don't even have to start singing when someone inadvertantly uses a phrase that reminds you of a song; you just look at each other and smile.

Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if...
From: denise:^)
Date: 19 May 03 - 04:36 PM

...you are single and drive a minivan, so that you, your 3 autoharps, your 88-key digital piano, and your hammered dulcimer (not to mention various stands, seats, cords, bags 'o music, etc...) can all fit relatively comfortably...

This one came up at a band rehearsal the other night:
...if you carry around a spare music stand in your car, "just in case." (two of us do!)

Denise:^)

Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if...
From: GUEST,Egal
Date: 19 May 03 - 07:57 PM

You keep on going to (web) advertised venues only to find they have been discontinued and still retain hope!

Land o' cakes Manchester tonight for one.

Subject: RE: BS: You may be a musician if...
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Jan 04 - 08:14 AM

his d*** major satisfies her v*** minora. get it..got..it..good god!!!. give me not good accord but good chords..luv to who knows..not to whose nose.end.