Everyone has a song in them. They just have to decide to stop humming and strumming everyone else's and try to write one of their own. Then a break through occurs. That is what I finally did. I'm now some 80 songs down the road, developing songs based upon the things around me, or that I can discover. Ultimately, I'm just a guy with a guitar, enjoying the process of sharing the message of life, through music, and meeting some cool people along the way that I could only connect with because of this interest. Some of you!
Beyond the desire to play, it is a venue for the expression of interests. I leave it to others to rage against the machine. While there is a in fact a machine to rage against, and I am interested in those who do so, in my own recordings I'm expressing interest in things related to the good life toward which we all want to advance.
For my music to have an impact on the thought world of others.
The story behind the song.
Puff the Magic Dragon
America Cat Stevens Jim Croce Three Dog Night
I just got mad. Grew tired of trying to emulate the great music of others and determined to make a song, Just one song. Now I'm some 80 songs down the road and had to sort of it off because I can't keep up capturing and recording dissipating myself this way.
There is more going on, in everyone, and in the world, than meets the eye. It's our job to unpack it.
I've done so over the years here and there. There's always the nerve thing. Then there is always the positive responses. So feel the fear and do it anyway. You're doing it for others. You do so by focusing on the music.
We are all fighting the lie we have seen on TV all our lives. Most big stars in every field have been first promoted, then perverted. You don't want that. You want to be valued, not a spectacle for the mere amusement of others. Provide your talent to your local region. Perhaps that is our role, and it is enough.
Glad it's there. I do fade in and out with it. That's not on Drooble. That's on me. It is a meeting place for those of us with some overlapping interests and a change to dare to have someone critique what we do. So it has it's place.
Time to record, quality of recording, finding a venue, lack of cooperation among others with a similar interest, but actually want something very diferent.
Yes, I've gone to some events. Actually trying to launch and host events via the local theater.
Humility and gratefulness. Then the savvy to penetrate those markets by virtue of persistence.
Dan Braken Haruki Hakoyama