I agree with freddynl to some degree about the 'learning to dance' .... when I was in high school (mid-late 50's), my mom said I wasn't going to the prom unless I could dance, so off to dance school it was....
Leon, I would trade my arranger KB in a minute, to have my old group back, even if the bass player did miss a chord change now and then ... like you, I just LOVE to PLAY, ... my wife felt like I had a new woman when I first got my KN6000 ... and I still put the headphones on and just play long after she's gone to bed...
I also find it interesting that musicians who will sometimes travel for miles to 'jam' for a number of hours won't do the same for a small fee at a club ... maybe it's the musical 'demands' of the audience as opposed to the 'desires' of the musicians ...
not to travel too far off the thread, but in talking about today's youth and their pastimes, I live in a real 'bedroom' community, and I am amazed at how all summer I will see hardly a kid outside biking, skating, playing ball whatever, and yet during school season, the school bus stops are LOADED with kids ... where the heck are they in the summer??? ... in front of a computer playing war games??? ....
at least one of the kids a few houses down has started a 'garage band', and I can hear them pretty well at my house ..... my mother in law has asked me if I like the "kind of noise they're making', and I've told her, it may not be my kind of music, but the fact the are playing is music to my ears
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