Is that all there is?

[kraant]

I was just playing around on the guitar and rediscovered an old riff I'd forgotten about.

I'm feeling somewhat torn.

Should I go buy another pack of cigarettes? Or not?

Should I focus on music? Or business?

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[penguin2]

All three?

[kraant]

Can't, I can barely cope with just music.

[penguin2]

Rats. I'm starting to ache for coping with music myself. I think I'll see if I can sell my minidisc and digital recorders (not to you, obviously, since you feel the same way about 'em as I do!) and look for a nice classic cassette 4-track, so I can actually *get some recording done* when my hand's up to it :-)

[kraant]

May I recommend a Tascam 4 track? That combined with a good Mixing Deck has always given me nice results...

Heh, unfortunately for me I'm stuck at the moment with the digital SpawnO'SatanTM.

It's rather surprising how I play and sing at the same time now... I just couldn't and then I could and I didn't really notice when it happened or understand why I can.

[penguin2]

No recommendation needed - that's what I used to have, back home - and got truly fine results with it, even without an additional external mixer. I've made peace with the apparent fact that as a home recording engineer I'm firmly planted in the latter 20th century. Analog rocks. IMO the whole digital home recording thing is for people who want to remix the sounds and riffs of others, and no thanks, I have sounds and riffs of my own aplenty :-)

[kraant]

Yeah, on the topic of having sounds and riffs a plenty, but otherwise wandering.

I've always found people who are ultra-uber-paranoid about people stealing their *gollum voice*precioussss. ideas rather confusing.

As far as I'm concerned theirs plenty more where that came from.

[penguin2]

I'm...variable on that subject. If I write something that I want to be taken/shared/generally treated as open source, that's fine with me. If it's something that I see as mineminemine and the only sharing I want is the lots-of-people-listening-to-it kind, I can, will and have been ferally protective.

Of course, that doesn't apply to riffs, since one can't copyright a riff (or a title, for that matter), but to complete melodies and, usually, lyrics. Though I do dislike it when someone nicks a well-known/iconic riff and makes it into something, um, lesser than the original.

[kraant]

I guess I don't really write music for other people to listen to I write it for mememe ;)

I have a long history of recording, not releasing and then destroying a couple of years later when I'm no longer impressed with it... Heh.

That and I'm egotistical enough that my response to someone ripping me off would probably be something along the lines of smug satisfaction that they'd never ever write another song as good as that one where'as...

(Following calculations are caused by extreme sleep deprivation and are pro'ly total twaddle.)

I'd say I crank out a song I'm actually proud of, at least at the time, once every three to four months.

Then it's off to the rubbish bin again and the song writing again.

Me, a solipsist?

Never! :P

[penguin2]

We're all solipsists on this bus :P