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This weekend was a very long one. I started on Friday by playing a 3 hour set on St. Patrick's day with my band Tap Out. We then won the Uconn Battle of the Bands on Saturday, by winning the crowd with our amazing music, and intense charm, talk about bad 80's movie cliches. And finally on Sunday we had our regular practice, followed by heading up to Boston to see the Dropkick Murphy's, which was amazing just as it is every year. By the time I got home I needed a vacation from my weekend. And on Tuesday my other band the Tammany Ring had it's practice in anticipation for our first show on April 1st.
More and more it feels like I am spending all my free time playing music, either on trumpet or bass guitar. It's bizare that I am so close to finally heading off the grad school, yet at the same time I have more music going on in my life than I have ever before. I'm enjoying book editing and I do plenty of writing on my own. I just want to write and play music, but neither of these things are quite enough to make a living off of. It's the old question of money. Do I go to grad school, get paid to get a degree and be ok, or do I scrape by and keep playing music and writing, or most likely the third option do all of it, not sleep for a few years and go insane. I've always been the one to do it all. So I feel these next few years will fall into the category of crazy. I can't wait.
More and more it feels like I am spending all my free time playing music, either on trumpet or bass guitar. It's bizare that I am so close to finally heading off the grad school, yet at the same time I have more music going on in my life than I have ever before. I'm enjoying book editing and I do plenty of writing on my own. I just want to write and play music, but neither of these things are quite enough to make a living off of. It's the old question of money. Do I go to grad school, get paid to get a degree and be ok, or do I scrape by and keep playing music and writing, or most likely the third option do all of it, not sleep for a few years and go insane. I've always been the one to do it all. So I feel these next few years will fall into the category of crazy. I can't wait.