A Revelation
I dropped the better half off to work tonight and on the drive home something strange happened. For once I was listening to the radio rather than my MP3 player and a song came on the radio I hadn't heard for a long time. The lyrics told the story of a workaholic business man who spends all his time traveling to be successful in his career, and the longing to stand still and be with the people he loves. Today, I really identified with that. Lately I have just been working so hard to make as much money as possible so I can plan for some things down the road, while ignoring all the things that mean so much to me in the present.
It's time to change.
Music needs to become a major priority for me again. My health has to become a major priority for me again. I've become a work robot and it's killing me. I'm giving myself three months to be gig ready with five sets worth of material to start playing solo gigs again. This is an open invite for song suggestions - songs that work with just a lone acoustic guitar and single vocal. I have a few ideas, but some help would be great cause I tend to pick all the sad depressing songs.
No, I need good fun songs as well. I'm really psyched now to do this. I need to do this. I need to play and to sing and have people listen to me and hopefully touch some part of their soul in some way. My singing has come a long way in the past year, especially with the no smoking thing I've been doing. It's sounding better than ever. In fact I may record a few demo's over the next few weeks, completely live demos, so I can start fishing around.
I need to do this before it's too late. I don't really know when that is, but it feels soon.
Oh. And the song....?
The Hoodoo Gurus - 1000 Miles Away
In other news, I finally succumbed and have created a MySpace site. Feel free to add me to your friends.
