BS: Give up?

Subject: Give up?
From: GUEST,Guest...Brian
Date: 29 Mar 01 - 12:04 PM

ever get so frustrated with your playing/singing/etc. that you've contemplated giving it up once and for all?

I have, but I just can't help but keep on playin' good or awful...

Subject: RE: BS: Give up?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 29 Mar 01 - 12:09 PM

Absolutely not!

Subject: RE: BS: Give up?
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 29 Mar 01 - 12:13 PM

Sometimes, but after a break I'm usually able to try again. The fallow time is useful, too.

Subject: RE: BS: Give up?
From: chip a
Date: 29 Mar 01 - 12:53 PM

Sure! I get in a rut & nothing I play seems good or fresh. That's a good time to go listen to someone else play. Gives me new inspiration & new desire. I can't lay the banjo down for long. It starts calling me from the corner of the room...kinda' like hearing voices only they don't make drugs for it. Do you play more than one instrument? If so, try picking up the other for a while. I do that with autoharp & it helps to change the musical scenery.

Keep picking,

Chip

Subject: RE: BS: Give up?
From: Kim C
Date: 29 Mar 01 - 01:02 PM

No but I do have those practice sessions where nothing sounds right and I can't seem to do anything to suit myself. It's downright aggravating.

Subject: RE: BS: Give up?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 29 Mar 01 - 02:30 PM

"Stop me before I play again..." Cry for help of the hapless serial tune-killer through the ages...

Subject: RE: BS: Give up?
From: Amos
Date: 29 Mar 01 - 02:53 PM

Thar was bloooood on the capo!
Thar was blooood on my rings
And drops of blood drying
On mah silk-on-steel strings
Ah found "Strawberry Roan"
Lying in the gore
An' I won't be performin'
Thet song any more!

Serial Tune Killer Blues....

Subject: RE: BS: Give up?
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 29 Mar 01 - 03:05 PM

LOL Amos!! That's exactly what it feels like!! I finally learned a Leadbelly blues lick to accompany my kids, but every time I tried it, it just got worse and worse. But today was the day the kids were to perform their own 12-bar blues songs, and I had to accompany- I took no prisoners, I left my performance dead and bloody on the ground. But the kids didn't seem to notice- they were too full of their cleverness ("I got the music class blues, I just don't wanna sing, I got the music class blues, I just don't wanna sing- I don't wanna dance, I don't wanna do anything!")

Subject: RE: BS: Give up?
From: gnu
Date: 29 Mar 01 - 03:12 PM

Amos... Serial Tune Killer Blues... excellent. I looked for the lyrics in the Digitrad so I could send it to my buddy in Iqaluit, a picker and singer of fine tunes, but to no avail. May I impose upon your kind favour to direct me ?

gnu

Subject: RE: BS: Give up?
From: LR Mole
Date: 29 Mar 01 - 03:22 PM

No, man, although sometimes I play more in my head than in my hands. It's a comfort.
"Never does grow impatient for the changes I don't know, no,
, if he can't go to heaven, baby, I don't want to go."--J. Taylor.

Subject: RE: BS: Give up?
From: Bert
Date: 29 Mar 01 - 03:25 PM

No never, I don't care how much you beg and plead.

Subject: RE: BS: Give up?
From: radriano
Date: 29 Mar 01 - 04:46 PM

People keep trying to get me to give up but as my grandpappy used to say - "Never giv 'em what they wants."

Subject: RE: BS: Give up?
From: Dave Wynn
Date: 29 Mar 01 - 05:49 PM

Yes.

Subject: RE: BS: Give up?
From: John Hardly
Date: 29 Mar 01 - 07:10 PM

never make a life altering decision on a shitty day.

--JH

Subject: RE: BS: Give up?
From: Amos
Date: 29 Mar 01 - 10:33 PM

Gnu, lad:

The entirety of the tune, captured at the moment of its birth, is what you see above. It was crafted especially for this thread by the founder and chairman of Infinite Possibilities Song Crafters and Engineering Services his very self!

The Board has decreed that all permissions shall be granted to whoever wants 'em on an unlimited all-come, all-serve basis.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Give up?
From: Amergin
Date: 29 Mar 01 - 11:55 PM

There have been several occasions where I have seriously considered quitting the writing.....but I think that would have been impossible.....for it could have very well killed me.....or at least I would have lost part of my soul....

Subject: RE: BS: Give up?
From: mousethief
Date: 30 Mar 01 - 02:24 AM

No, but I have "walked away" from it out of ennui for long periods of time.

Alex

Subject: RE: BS: Give up?
From: RichM
Date: 30 Mar 01 - 05:14 AM

Yes!
No!
Sometimes!
Never!

Subject: RE: BS: Give up?
From: Bagpuss
Date: 30 Mar 01 - 06:36 AM

I don't think I could stop singing, even if I tried. Apparently for 50% of my singing time, I'm not even aware that I am singing!

Bagpuss

Subject: RE: BS: Give up?
From: Mr Red
Date: 30 Mar 01 - 07:05 AM

I never started singing till the wife left home
I ain't never gonna stop. Powerful magic!. I don't intend tempting fate, mate.