Monday, February 21, 2005
When i was about 18, (which to me now seems like an eternity) i learned to play the guitar with a locally made electric guitar my mother bought me as a birthday gift and things were never the same again!
It was really weird because i didn't come from a musically oriented family... Oh i did find out later on that my grandfather (rest his soul) on my mothers side did play ouido violin. He wasn't really a violin player but learned to play as a trade. So eventually i ended up with a band of my own and started playing professionally when i was 19.
When my kids were born i had to make a choice on whether i should continue playing or look for a decent regular job. I guess that's the primary reason why i shifted to being a recording techie... at least i could still be involved in music creation. I found myself on the other side of the recording studio though ... not inside the booth where musicians play but inside the control room.
I learned my music from playing live every night and interacting with different musicians. It was simply because i didn't have the time and the means of staying in school. I guess that's where i learned how to arrange music... to this day i arrange like how a five piece band would perform it, always considering the final sound of the song when played live onstage.
So i guess i'm an enigma of sorts... being able to play and arrange musically and actually able to record and mix my work as well :-)
I love my guitars... they may not be the most expensive or precision made insturments on the market, but the guitars i own have been kept because they have been chosen and cared for as if they were real persons who have been with me for quite some time, as my constant companions in this mad existense we call life.
Everytime something sad happens in my life i turn to them .
When things are really bad, i just pick up one of them and start strumming and playing to nothing in particular... It's as if the act of holding something near me and my fingers moving to a random rhythm helps to soothe out whatever stress i'm going through.
Ive actually composed guitar pieces when my current relationships were failing but could never get to actually record them and work on them as i feel that they were written for persons i have loved and lost but hold dearly in my memories.
Music IS the soundtrack of life! My guitars are the only ones left with me after all the troubled relationships i've had, after being mad and being sad i turn to the only friends i have who'll always be there for me.... My guitars
And as a final note my daugher Da says that if i get another one she'd probably Bop me in the head with it... Hahahha
--MXRR at 12:27 AM
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