I know I talk about music and great artists I have worked and played with over the decades. During all that time I had my share of more-than full time jobs. I started with plastics and the injecting molding industry. I went from being a ‘hopper boy’ to a plant manager. Later I got into sales – service – and managing with a few other trades thrown in there.
I retired from work a bout 4 years ago. Now it is time I retired from the music business as well….
I have gathered all my recording gear. Packed up my vintage keyboards and guitars and have the drums all torn down and headed toward shipping boxes. I will keep my songwriting instruments and gear I can’t part with yet. I will list the rest of the gear for sale on Sweetwater’s Exchange platform.
If you know a musician give them the link below. They might thank you for it!
You see the truth and refuse it. You are given advice and reject it. You see the cliff and keep running toward it. But you KNOW what is true. Your stories are not.
Maybe you did have a rough start in life, but you would never let it go to start fresh. You create the storm we live in. You constantly chant `everyone is to blame’ to make you feel better, but all the fingers are still pointing at you.
What’s something most people don’t know about you?
Most people don’t know I’m an old man. Even people I have known for years treat me as much younger and are surprised when I tell them I’m my seventies.
A look at the life of a celebrity stalker. Starved for attention, empty lives looking for someone – some reason – some value. They act like you. Look like you. Absorbing everything you do and still do not know you at all. But they are the Best Fan you have.
Looking back I think this was written because people would give me a hard time about what I wore when I played out with the bands I was in. Some kept saying I had to wear faded jeans, etc. to be a ‘rocker’. Obviously not true, besides, being the keyboard player I was usually in the back of the stage in the dark. No one sees the keyboard player.
But if I was going to court to be judged, I will be wearing a suit and tie!
The best of intentions won’t matter if you don’t let someone know them. Reliving memories, there were so many situations I could have made better or just more enjoyable if I would talk to friends and tell them what I feel or see.
Life is hard when my Default mode is set to ‘Silent”.
This comes from learning lessons one by one and a little too slow. Once you realize the correct thing to do it is already too late. Then we think we finally have it down only to see that we were just as naive as before.
This wasn’t my last song, I have a few more, but still don’t know where I went wrong.
MidiMike 