The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #41909   Message #608252
Posted By: Jerry Rasmussen
12-Dec-01 - 07:42 AM
Thread Name: Your best musical advice in one post!
Subject: RE: Your best musical advice in one post!
Marty D: Rick did say, "Ahh, maybe two or three." I'd just like to say a word for people who love to play, and will never be any good. These posts seem to be very performance oriented, and that's fine. I had a friend of mine in college who really wanted to play guitar and sing, but had no ear and a terrible voice. He could clear a neighborhood of dogs with one line of a song. But, he really wanted to learn to play guitar. He asked me if it was stupid of him to want to play for his own enjoyment. We all should be playing for our OWN enjoyment, First. I not only encouraged him to buy a guitar, I gave him lessons so that he could play it. He made Alfalfa sound like Pavarotti, but he had such fun playing and singing! And, he was a good man... he never shared his "talent" with others. And never got any better.

This post is for all who will never be good enough to stand in front of an audience. Jerry