Artistic Burnout Time

Sometime I wonder what I should be doing, but I just keep on keeping on as best I can. Stopping is not an option, especially so at the moment. My head is a haunted house right now. My dreams are really strange too. Full of people I used know but havent seen for quite a while.
They are disturbing too. So I wake up a little troubled and perturbed. Also I feel there is something I have forgotten to do but I can’t figure out quite what it is. I get a lot of that these days too.

World of woo

I guess we are just filling in time to push the fear to the back of our minds, or perhaps that’s just me. I would really like to get a bit more light in my music as its got very dark and sad over time. I am not too sure what I could do about achieving that. Maybe it needs an infusion of dancing rhythms? I am looking but just not finding it right now. Indeed. Anyway I have to keep marching on regardless. So I do.

Persistence at times like this is everything.

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    Vocal Ballad
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    Simple instrumental vibe
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    Edgy Song
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    It's the stuff that dreams are made of or perhaps nightmares.
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    Mellow soundtrack world vibe with violin and keys
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Footloose and Fancy Free

Lets just relax and float down stream. And take a deep breath and that’s better. And don’t be scared of your own thoughts, which I have been recently. Occasionally I put something on TIkTok and there are some very strange people there judging by some of the comments at times. But hey that’s OK. It getting my music a few plays, which is sort of the point.
But is any publicity good publicity? I am not sure. But as they say you are a long time dead so why worry. Currently I am recording a backing track for a new song and I intend to use all the vocal trickery I can muster on it once the lyrics are clear in my head. I have a few notions brewing up on a couple of subjects that make be worth a song. Rehearsals carry on as usual as with 3 bands. yesterday I had two with different acts and also it required about 3 plus hours to get from one to the other driving. Occasionally it gets confusing I must admit. But its better to be doing something again especially after the end of the old act in February 2020 and the 2 years in the wilderness during lockdown. That was hard and it took more out of me than I thought at the time. Its been much harder getting back in the saddle than I ever imagined. But I am back though it must be said in a much more limited way.

Here is a cheary song for you all.

Can you see the real me, everything is performative at times.

What Am I Like, You Really Don’t Want To Know.

Yep, my mind is a mixture of quite disturbing thoughts at times. Well it is at the time of writing. My goodness there goes another one. I am all a flutter. Gadzooks. I have been working a lot of trying to improve my fitness post Covid and lockdown and all that jazz. I think its working but I have equally well been getting more and more irritable and impatient to. My life is very quiet compared to how things were 5 years ago when I was still playing regular gigs and a lot of other stuff was also occupying my time too. Now I have time to think. Thinking can lead one to dangerous places which is why perhaps so many people on Facebook, X and so forth don’t even bother to attempt it?

A friend said I seemed irritable. Well lately I think I often am. Mostly with the universe in general. I am quite a full on sort of person when I get going. I can be a bit fiery. Perhaps I am a dragon…I also have to remember not to interject oaths and swearing in my conversations. I am constantly twitchy and tend to fidget. If I were giving a lecture I would be pacing from side to side rather than standing at the podium I think.

Here is a new song. Piano and Vocals. The latest keyboard I have has a really decent piano samples on it that make for a little more subtly that is very apparent on recordings.

Never Again As Friends

When I was younger and very naive I thought I would never understand why people would start to lean on alcohol and drugs as a crutch. Well I think I have it figured out now. I feel I have built a wall between me and the rest of the world. Partly for protection and partly due to just feeling other. I really don’t know what I can do about that now. Passing time has made me cynical too. If I do last a little while longer, I need to make a change or two so that my mind survives in good order even if my body does not.