Thanks again everyone. Twenty four hours after recording, I hate it. This is something I’ve grown to accept even just recording music for myself, privately. The hate will come.
Now. Do I hate it really? Probably not. I’m hyper critical of myself, inside and outside of music. Damaging and destructive talk to myself, which can be affected by my general mood significantly on a given day. (I’m very nice to everyone else)
But once you press publish, it takes on a life of its own that you can’t influence anymore. Is that true here? Definitely not. This is a learning environment. People are learning. People are exposing themselves (figuratively) in the quest for improvement and enjoyment.
So sing like nobody’s watching? Well I’m in a kitchen with three dogs and nobody is watching. Not yet anyway. I’m not doing this to punish myself. One of these days I’ll wake up dead and hope I wake up singing.
I spoke to an experienced performer recently about singing in public. His observation on audience detractors? Hand them your guitar and ask them if they would like to do better? I’m not sure I fully like that idea but ultimately…
Whatever you do today is good enough for today so well done and thanks for the music!!!
A link to The Frames playing it. (The subject matter, a terribly interesting true story in itself)
