Thursday, October 11, 2012

On Stage 24 - Dare to suck

A continuing series of insights from the stage at the local club level...


Don't compare yourself, Mike...
it ain't healthy
24. This was a piece of advice dropped by Tape Op magazine, but most musicians are struggling to live up to their heroes... and never will. Just accept that you'll never be Hendrix (or Entwhistle or Miles Davis or whoever) and you'll never compare yourself favorably to the people you've idolized since you first picked up an instrument.  If you think you'll never measure up, if you think you suck, so be it-- dare to suck, and just keep playing.


  
Even limited to my experiences, this list is nowhere near complete.  I planted it as one of the first pages when I began this blog with the very first handful of points from the quickest surface skim of my gray matter.  It will continue to grow.

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