Ambitions - playing/practicing for yourself vs. for audience

[ragman1]

Except he'll have to drive for 17+ hours on I-65 and I-75. You could put him up for the night :-)

[AllanAllen]

Oh did I grab the wrong location? It looked like Florida on google maps.

[digger]

I put a record out a couple weeks ago and it's starting to do a few things for me, .

Any details, Dawg? Apologies if I missed any announcement but I don't look at every thread these days. But it would be great to see some details and hear some snippets.

Derek

[ragman1]

Oh did I grab the wrong location? It looked like Florida on google maps.

[AllanAllen]

You are confused. I looked up a venue in the town Skip lives in Florida using google and suggested it as a place he start. Illustrating that, even though he feels there is nowhere to play and nobody to play with.

[DawgBone]

Any details, Dawg? Apologies if I missed any announcement but I don't look at every thread these days. But it would be great to see some details and hear some snippets.

Derek

Well, it's not jazz so I'm not sure the forum is my target market, lol. I don't wanna let the cat outta the bag before it happens but getting a few spins now, have a few hard copies to send out this weekend, have made a couple connections, and was able to land a couple higher quality shows. I still have a ton of work to do and dough to blow on promotions.

I will say for guys here who decide to put out a jazz record there are quite a few stations still pushing new artists on the jazz market just based around what I came across researching public and college radio stations. Jazz ain't dead.

[ragman1]

You are confused.

Yup, sorry :-)

It'll be nice to see if Skip likes the place and has somewhere to go. I'm sure he'll tell us.

[pauln]

Haiku alert...

I talk to the wind
When practicing, rehearsal
more, most performing.

[DawgBone]

You are confused. I looked up a venue in the town Skip lives in Florida using google and suggested it as a place he start. Illustrating that, even though he feels there is nowhere to play and nobody to play with.

I miss Florida every year when the weather turns to crap in Texas. Bradenton/Palmetto/Sarasota/St. Pete....love that gulf coast. Opening Christmas gifts in 70-80 degree weather. I'ma try to make it down there later this year, or, at least hope to!

[Stevebol]

When I moved a couple years ago I knew gigging would probably be impossible. I barely touch the guitar these days.

[emanresu]

Who are you try to amuse? Joe Blow who wandered into the brewery for the vibe and IPA whose idea of jazz is a punchline from the Simpsons? Or the guys in your band?

hm

[AllanAllen]

hm

You can’t make everyone happy, and trying to do so is a fools goal.

Even Taylor Swift has her haters.

[Skip Ellis]

[QUOTE=AllanAllen;1424600]Have you been to 88 Live Piano Bar? Live jam Tuesdays 7-10pm is probably a good place to start. I literally just copied the location from your profile and added "live jazz" to the google search.[/QUOTE
Right up the street - no jazz - I was a founding member of the rock/pop/country group that plays there during the season. I don't go listen to music - don't enjoy it unless I'm playing and I definitely don't do jam sessions.

[pamosmusic]

I don't go listen to music - don't enjoy it unless I'm playing and I definitely don't do jam sessions.

Not to point out the obvious, but if you want to find people to play with, this is where the people are.

Go to sessions. Go to other people's gigs.

[Skip Ellis]

Not to point out the obvious, but if you want to find people to play with, this is where the people are.

Go to sessions. Go to other people's gigs.

Not looking for people to play with - would rather play solo or maybe duo with bass player but they're rare around here. I'm just a 'behind the ferns' solo kind of guy but we mostly only have sports bars.

[AllanAllen]

Not looking for people to play with - would rather play solo or maybe duo with bass player but they're rare around here. I'm just a 'behind the ferns' solo kind of guy but we mostly only have sports bars.

Your decisions are holding you back, not the place you live.

If you choose to do nothing, don’t complain about it. It’s your choice to avoid musicians.

[Skip Ellis]

[QUOTE=AllanAllen;1424817]Your decisions are holding you back, not the place you live.

If you choose to do nothing, don’t complain about it. It’s your choice to avoid musicians.[/QUOTE
I'd rather play solo - less drama and I really don't like being around musicians much

[AllanAllen]

Yeah, I’ve been there too.

[Stevebol]

[QUOTE=Skip Ellis;1424792]

Have you been to 88 Live Piano Bar? Live jam Tuesdays 7-10pm is probably a good place to start. I literally just copied the location from your profile and added "live jazz" to the google search.[/QUOTE
Right up the street - no jazz - I was a founding member of the rock/pop/country group that plays there during the season. I don't go listen to music - don't enjoy it unless I'm playing and I definitely don't do jam sessions.

We have both kinds of music here in Yuma, Arizona. Norteno and west coast gangster rap.

[DawgBone]

Your decisions are holding you back, not the place you live.

If you choose to do nothing, don’t complain about it. It’s your choice to avoid musicians.

As someone who hustled in central Florida for quite a few years let me just say, the place I was living was holding me back. Fewer gigs, fewer musicians, less money for club gigs, and more critically, the musicians there are less motivated. It's slacker-ville island time mentality there and that is something that holds true the further south into the tropics you go. Things, and people, move more slowly there.

Granted I couldn't get into the Tom White mafia and he holds a lot of cards in the central FL blues scene but he had no need for additional bands so scraps were what I could pick up. His roster was full. I moved back to TX and in one year had done more gigs than my best year in FL. Location has a helluva lot to do with playing opportunities. And TX is pretty much a workaholic state....