What Keeps You In The Game ?

[Stub Mandrel]

Don't forget blues was fading in the USA until their leading lights came to the UK and sparked the UK blues movement.

[Woodinblack]

On 26/05/2025 at 03:24, hiram.k.hackenbacker said:

What keeps me in the game is the guys I play with. Consummate professionals each and every one.

I cannot think of one bad word word to say about any of them. They give everything at each and every gig.

They are the first to criticise themselves and applaud the effort of others.

 

Mine is almost the same except the exact opposite. But still it can be fun!

[BigRedX]

I've been playing in bands for almost 50 years.

 

In that time I've been in 17 bands that played at least one gig or had recordings available for the public to buy.

 

I do it because IMO there is still nothing more exciting than performing something that I have written to an audience. Like others who have commented I can be socially awkward, but stick me on a stage with a musical instrument and I'm an entirely different person.

 

And TBH since 2009 I've had more fun and more success with my music than I did in any of the years before that. 

 

I still enjoy gigging and even all the stuff that goes with it. If it became impossible for me to play live any more, I'd still be releasing weird instrumental music that I had written on Bandcamp.

 

 

[Stub Mandrel]

2 minutes ago, BigRedX said:

I've been playing in bands for almost 50 years.

 

In that time I've been in 17 bands that played at least one gig or had recordings available for the public to buy.

 

I do it because IMO there is still nothing more exciting than performing something that I have written to an audience. Like others who have commented I can be socially awkward, but stick me on a stage with a musical instrument and I'm an entirely different person.

 

And TBH since 2009 I've had more fun and more success with my music than I did in any of the years before that. 

 

I still enjoy gigging and even all the stuff that goes with it. If it became impossible for me to play live any more, I'd still be releasing weird instrumental music that I had written on Bandcamp.

 

 

 

Making music and bringing joy to an audience, that's a huge buzz.

[Bluewine]

11 hours ago, BigRedX said:

I've been playing in bands for almost 50 years.

 

In that time I've been in 17 bands that played at least one gig or had recordings available for the public to buy.

 

I do it because IMO there is still nothing more exciting than performing something that I have written to an audience. Like others who have commented I can be socially awkward, but stick me on a stage with a musical instrument and I'm an entirely different person.

 

And TBH since 2009 I've had more fun and more success with my music than I did in any of the years before that. 

 

I still enjoy gigging and even all the stuff that goes with it. If it became impossible for me to play live any more, I'd still be releasing weird instrumental music that I had written on Bandcamp.

 

 

 

2009 was the year I joined Maple Road. I've been gigging almost weekly ever since.

 

Daryl