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It's a common scenario: You have bought a new CD, you pop it in you player and whisk yourself away with the new found euphoria and after a few songs, you find that this music is so similar to something else you own. Over the past few months I have really noticed how references in art are consistant, year after year and genre switch after another. But there are artists that are references and artists that are merely products of their time. They are straight forward in presentation and carefree in presentation. All of these groups or artists have a certain aire about them that makes me want to delve further into music. More and more I have come to see that Popular music as we see it compounds and implodes first, like a bullet through a television before it explodes and leaves glass scattered in random form all over the place. As these pieces land in our laps, we are further encouraged to inspect them and really try to understand them. We develop obsession in something that we cannot touch, cannot see and cannot communicate with. We have memories evolve around sounds and melodies, making the music make us cry, laugh, smile and more than anything, they make us feel something. Pretty impressive it is.
Many times i have had that shard of glass in my lap and I've cut myself on it, making me bleed like a head wound. I've seen other things in that shard of glass after the preliminary inspection that I never would have seen before, but it makes me second guess it. I've immedately discarded that piece of glass and threw it in the water, for fear of it cutting me, then picking it up after it had been rubbed by the waves, making the edges soft, the glass fragile, and the glare too unapparent to not pick it up and place it in my pocket when I really need to pull it out and realize how important it is.
Well, it's been a while. I've applied to the Musicians Institute in Los Angles and hopefully, I'm accepted this next year. It's a calendar year program. It's a modern music school, that teaches you to become a professional 'for hire' musician. It's going to make me a better guitar player. After some pretty in-depth thinkong, I've realized I've been cheating myself and making compromises for myself within this past year that I've regretted. This is the first time I will say it but, I am not a fucking guitar technician, I'm a guitar player, and with every passing day that feeling is amplified to the point I cannot ignore it any more. I hope everyone can accept this. It's harder for me to beleive it than it is for you to beleive it. It's a complete opposite of what I have been quoted saying in the past, but things have changed and I am going to do this, because first and foremost, I am a musician, and nothing else to myself. Everyone have a good one. Cheers.
Travis
Many times i have had that shard of glass in my lap and I've cut myself on it, making me bleed like a head wound. I've seen other things in that shard of glass after the preliminary inspection that I never would have seen before, but it makes me second guess it. I've immedately discarded that piece of glass and threw it in the water, for fear of it cutting me, then picking it up after it had been rubbed by the waves, making the edges soft, the glass fragile, and the glare too unapparent to not pick it up and place it in my pocket when I really need to pull it out and realize how important it is.
Well, it's been a while. I've applied to the Musicians Institute in Los Angles and hopefully, I'm accepted this next year. It's a calendar year program. It's a modern music school, that teaches you to become a professional 'for hire' musician. It's going to make me a better guitar player. After some pretty in-depth thinkong, I've realized I've been cheating myself and making compromises for myself within this past year that I've regretted. This is the first time I will say it but, I am not a fucking guitar technician, I'm a guitar player, and with every passing day that feeling is amplified to the point I cannot ignore it any more. I hope everyone can accept this. It's harder for me to beleive it than it is for you to beleive it. It's a complete opposite of what I have been quoted saying in the past, but things have changed and I am going to do this, because first and foremost, I am a musician, and nothing else to myself. Everyone have a good one. Cheers.
Travis