Time is Music
I’m going do a YouTube experiment next week to see if YouTube growth influencers are full of shizz. I know how funny this sounds, because we all know they’re full of it, but there’s always, if you have a 15 minute video, maybe there’s a minute worth of useful information. And if you use your free Gemini account, you can, unlike other AI engines, dig into what’s useful and what’s not useful on YouTube. Mainly they’re all big time wasters.
Speaking of, the biggest revelation on wasting time in music that I’ve had lately is the gear trap, and it’s so endless, and people talk about it, but good Lord, one part no one talks about is the time, driving to see something, trying it out, blah blah blah blah blah. I think if you accounted for the time you’d realize how much it takes you away from actually making music, and I’m not talking about the learning, I’m just talking about the acquiring, the driving, and this and that.
I did something recently that actually paid off. I bought a really really really beat up Moog Grandmother at a San Antonio pawn shop. They put it on Facebook Marketplace and it was $400, $420, and it was not making good sounds, but nothing seemed mechanically broken, and it turned out it wasn’t. I still have to figure out how to get the reverb working correctly, but I affectionately call it a cigarette grandma. It had so much ash in it, and the reverb actually sounds like an old nasty cough, so I just may keep it that way. I mane, question #1: how?
It will stay in tune once set, and there’s probably some tuning thing I can do via a Moog button combo, but I really like kind of tuning it on the back per session, and that was a win
This was a considered, long process of trying every single mono Moog that was out there, and knowing that I couldn’t really, at this point in my life, afford to buy anything that wasn’t a bit compromised, so a beat up grandmother was right up my alley. (Yes it smells, still.)
I’m going to be conscious of being really protective of my time from now on, when it comes to gear. I’m selling online, and I’m buying online. Nuts to debating these folk from Craigslist or Marketplace.
And same with the YouTube guys. At the end of the day, is your song good? Is your video good? I think these are all that really matters.