Jon Boyes -> RE: Listen to this (Oct. 18 2004 8:36:55)
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ORIGINAL: El Zurdo I guess what I want to know is what drives you? When you hear negative things about your music does it get you down? does it drive you more? do you not care at all? I have to be honest and say that like Mike, I rarely hear negative things about my music. Also like Mike, 99% of the time its actually the opposite ie people coming up and saying how much they loved it. This answers your first question - the ability to share music with people and get that emotional reaction, that confirmation that I am communicating something, that validation that I doing something with music, is what drives me. Tom, when you get paid to do something that makes people so happy, it make you feel very humbled and very fortunate. There is nothing quite like it. BTW, I do not consider uploading a piece of music and getting critical feedback to be negative. That's simply peer evaluation. You never stop learning, you never 'get there', there is always something to begained from other people. quote:
Guitarists are very competitive. There's always someone who's better or thinks he is. If your a professional, and people pay to hear you, chances are that a lot of the people in the audience are guitarists as well. That would drive me nuts. I think I would be too focused on NOT messing up rather than on my music.? Professionals aren't like that Tom. In my experience, the notion of who is better than who and one-upmanship is something for the playground. There is mutual respect amongst all the working guitarists I know, for we all have to face the same battles to find decent work and to 'make it' as you put it. The notion of who is better than who just doesn't come in to it. We each have to make our mark, find our niche. I can play stuff some of them can't and vice versa. There will be some people, no doubt, who play guitar and like to go to gigs to stand at the back and whisper to their mates about the mistakes the guy on stage is making. No doubt it makes them feel big and important, and gives the impression that they are somehow 'better'. These people are actually very rare, and are just frustrated wannabe bedroom guitarists. I have only ever encountered one in hundreds of gigs. Most guitarists want to talk about gear, how long I've been playing, whether I do full time for a living, whether I teach, etc etc, Hoever, it does put the pressure on for me when I know there is another local working guitarist in the audience, especially if they haven't seen me play before. Jon
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