what will the world call it?
Today I’m invoking Alan Watts and Carlos Castaneda’s Don Juan.
When thinking about putting myself out there musically--like, what's my thing, the more I put it back in my subconscious, the more it rises up that the key may be not defining yourself musically, but just doing music, putting it out there.
Thinking about this because my weekly jam series, which the entire world doesn’t even know as a series since part two releases tomorrow. It's just kind of an effervescent studio jam on YouTube. I did Tuesday's this morning, and the Grandmother just really wasn’t in good tune, but it worked out, so you wonder who’s gonna stay with you through the initial phase of the jam, but I think it’s important, and I’m super OK with that, because the jam is one thing of a few that I do well.
But if I put myself out there as THE jamming musician and I do jams and that’s what I do, then that’s what you live and die by, but over the course of the last few weeks I’ve worked in the sing song aspect of writing and that’s come back in, and got a gig next weekend, so I’m back practicing the bass, getting ready for that.
Better is thru the lens of the Derek Sivers now thing: just talking about kind of what I am doing presently. This is a better fit. That’s what this blog is about, where none of that kind of defines the person or the musician, just what I am up to today. Since this is the very slow burn, it’s the way to do it.
Just put your works out there and let the world name it, but as Alan Watts would say, "Why give it a name?" Can’t help what other people do, but I can certainly help what I do, and I’ve seen people scratch and fight, trying to identify themselves with their through that, luckily for whatever reason, maybe by the hand of God, that’s never made any sense to me.