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Decay	I've been quiet....	[ September 07, 2003 ]
	I have been very quiet.... tonight is the first time in a good long while I have cranked the guitar up and had a bit of a play....... Fuck.... I am awful....... I can't remember half of the songs I know half as well as I used to play them..... ie. I suck pretty majorly at the moment... This is actually pretty depressing.... I had my delusions of grandeur where I would be in a mildy successful group playing in front of people that actually paid money to see me....... Now? What do I have ? Thousands of dollars worth of equipment and no sign of the talent I use to have.... I always thought I played/wrote better when I was depressed.... which I have stopped being for quite a while now... thanks to someone... So what to do? Well.... as with anything..... I turned off the amp, returned the guitar to the stand and sat down to listen to the depressing music I was earlier trying to play (cue: The Cure) and wonder what the fuck did I think I was doing.... I think I may look at eBay and sell some of this stuff. I can't see my mindset going to where it has been before..... What do I have to write about now? I'm not alone....... I'm not particularly angry......

Comments Um... Without trying to be too obvious, but there are an awful lot of "not-angry or depressed" songs/singers out there who do really well. It is much easier to write a depressed/angry lyric (though getting a sound to go with it is a little harder), and angry always equates to shouting, which accounts for all the little heavy-metal groups that keep popping up. I think it is much harder to get an uplifting song working without it sounding corny, or just plain crap (okay, for me I need to substitute essay for song, but you get the idea). Almost everyone I know who does not play wishes they could, and those who stopped regret it..... Posted by: Sparker on September 8, 2003 11:02 AM I for one would be greatly sorry to see you sell off your stuff. I didn't find your music depressing, celtic sunrise is one of the most beautiful pieces of music I know Stick with it kid you're just rusty! :) Di Posted by: DK The Elder on September 11, 2003 11:12 AM /me knee's DK in the NUTS (there - 'angry' now?) ;p Posted by: SaMbO on September 22, 2003 09:53 PM Post a comment Name: Email Address: URL: Comments: Remember info?

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