Last Night was Good
People never let me forget that I’m an ‘amazing’ drummer. Seriously, played for a total of less than 10 minute last night, received far more time in people telling me how amazing I was.
Jordan was telling me how I should be more modest, well he didn’t specifically say that, but everything he says is covered in a thin layer of insults and cynicism cynicalness. But it’s like, when it comes down to it, if I really want jobs for bands or whatever I wanna do with music, no one is going to hire the dude standing around going “well, I’m alright I guess”, 9/10 the band is going to look for the guy who comes up and goes “I can do everything you want no problem and more if you ask.” Sure, being a dickhead isn’t going to get you places, but I feel like I’ve got that under control, and the combination of not being a dickhead and having an ego is really what is going to get whatever limited amount of shitty gigs are available.
Mr.Clark, the percussion teacher at our school, also known as the dude who toured around the fucking world with The Lion King production came up to me last night, told me he always enjoys watching me, said I always play well and that’s what separates the professionals from everyone else, professionals on a bad day play well regardless of everything. He said it so damn casually but it was probably the greatest compliment I’ve ever gotten and from someone who has been playing in 100+ piece orchestra’s and symphony’s since he was my age, it means a fuckton for him to consider me in that standard.
In short, hire me as a session drummer yo, I’m mad at drums.
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catfoodagain said:
i did specifically say that thank you. you should also learn the definition of “cynicism”.
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