Monday, May 23, 2011

Oh, the hippies and their guitars...

Ages upon ages ago, I went to a concert with my father for the very first time in my life.  It was awesome and huge, and I watched Jethro Tull for the first time in my life!  I had found an addiction that I have to say I fell in love with!

As soon as I was able, I was attending as many musical events as I could.  I would go see metal bands and punk  shows, and anything that I dug that I could get to.  When I started driving, it obviously made things a little easier for me.  There is an energy to live music that I wanted so desperately to be part of.  I finally started working on writing my own shit after playing keyboards for a band when I was in high school.  It wasn't much, but it was mine.

The problem was, I am very creative in my head, but I have always lacked a certain talent with musical instruments to properly articulate what I really wanted to do.  I improved a lot from the start, but eventually had to admit that it was a fun hobby that was never going to get me anywhere.  I needed to make a decision to focus on something that I was good at.  I gave up the music and focused on my writing.

I miss it, but I realized these past few weeks that I missed just going out to the shows and enjoying the music. I used to go to at least 2 clubs a week just to dance, and then I would see live shows when they came around.  But I seem to have lost that.  Now, I find myself really wanting to get out there again and live it again!

I have an old friend to thank for this... and so, here's his CD for his band... He does the guitar work and is amazing at it!  I strongly endorse this band and I hope you will at least check them out... if it;s your thing.  Because seriously, some people just don't dig music this intense!

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