basskisser wrote:
Bryan wrote:
" JimH" not telling you @ pffftt.com wrote in message
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...........which were you in your "WannaBe a Rock Star" years?

High school garage band.......I was a drummer..........and a pretty bad
one at that. ;-)

Following Chucks routine I did not make this OT as one often listens to
music while on their boat, including music with bad drummers. It is
therefore somehow, somewhere.............boating reltated. ;-)


I'll bite. I have a cd on my boat with Red House by Jimi Hendrix. I like
to listen to it on my boat. It takes me back to my wannabe days. My
instrument? I was a bass player and a really good one. NOT! Competent,
but neither inspired nor natural-born. I gave it up 'cause one day I
realized I would never be as good as the Stones, The Who, and Led Zeppelin.
Still love my rock music and love listening to it on my boat.

Why does an adult need to be a "wannabe"? I still play guitar....a lot.

I haven't grown up enough yet at 44 to have given up the dream of
having performing music be a part of my life, even though I did realize
decades ago that the chances of my "making it," even making a full-time
comfortable living at it, were minimal; I also realized that I was at
least good enough, and competent keyboard players hard enough to find
(compared with guitarists or drummers), that I would always be able to
get gigs with bands, so I"ve been doing that pretty steadily on
weekends for the last 24 years or so.
In the last few years the frequency of these gigs has admittedly
dropped off somewhat to just one or two a month now (as the competing
demands of having a wife and kids encroach on the rock'n'roll
lifestyle, lol, and as I and my contemporary bandmates find it a little
harder by the year to compete with our younger counterparts for the
gigs and audiences!), but it's still a huge part of my life, a big
peter pan syndrome, and just a blast when playing to a dancing or
appreciately listening crowd. Nothing better in my life than a summer
weekend that includes some cruising on my pwc and maybe a nice
on-the-water gig....hey, if any fellow Long Islanders are here in the
newsgroup and are interested in this kind of thing, check out my
current band's website, AwakeningTheBand.com, you can hear clips of
me/us playing and see our upcoming dates, maybe you'll be able to stop
by one and say hi. We play a selection of pretty ambitious
"progressive" 70's rock by the likes of Yes, ELP, Genesis, Pink Floyd,
Rush, Boston, Queen, the Who, etc., it's actually pretty impressive,
very different from the usual predictable bar-band set list.

richforman