Mood Music Or Music Moods.

I have for a while moved away from music a bit. My love of music has never left me but for a while now I have had less desire to listen to it and almost no desire to perform it. Part of the reason for that is my falling out of love with cover bands, although there have been a few exceptions to that. I am of the opinion that doing the same cover versions as all the other bands on the circuit is boring and not what I want to do. I want to play different songs, ones that people don't hear that much anymore or that are just a bit different, if you do have to do some of the same old songs then changing them so they sound different. Not everyone agrees with me, I have been told that a band has to do the songs everyone knows and likes. My argument is that when I starting going to pubs to see live covers band they would have been lynched if they hadn't played Johnny B Goode, Bad Moon Rising or Mustang Sally, these days almost no one plays those songs. The only reason that changed was because bands started playing different songs, and the audience went to see them, it's the bands at the top of the tree of local covers bands that can change things quickest, but smaller and newer bands can try to change things too. The problem is two fold; firstly, finding other musicians that agree with my way of thinking; and secondly, working out what songs to play. There is also the fact that my eyes have been opened over the last year to the fact that there are other and different arenas that bands and musicians can perform in, not just the Rock pub circuit, these offer alternatives of styles of music and songs that could be performed and also the way they can be performed. All of this has left me a little confused as to what I want to do and how to go about it, and also a little jaded as far as Rock covers bands and covers bands in general are concerned.
I have, just recently started a short course on music production and the use of Logic Pro X. It, along with the fact that I seem to be in a lighter place in my head at the moment, has renewed my love of music. I have found myself listening to and enjoying music a lot more than I have been, which is a good thing.



There are days when I really feel like just grabbing someone, anyone, in the street and pushing them up against a wall and just screaming at the top of my voice for as long as I can straight into their face. On those days I try very hard to stifle that desire and end up screaming at myself inside my head, even louder than normal. Thankfully, those days don't occur as often at the moment as they have in the past, and may do again in the future. Life is interesting when you have no idea what sort of mood you will wake up in, or how long it is going to be before that mood changes, it could be minutes or hours or days or weeks. It's partly the unpredictable mood swings and, amongst other various garbage, partly the constantly changing trains if thought and talk inside the head that makes everyday a true adventure and sometimes interesting, sometimes a nightmare. Why was Maxwell's hammer silver? Not an example really, just a thought that I just had, don't know why because I neither know or care what the answer is. Sorry, my mind has gone completely off track now and so this post will end here.

See you again soon....ish, maybe.