Fading Summer

Nothing much to say about the sudden disappearence of the great summer of 2006, but suffice to say, things are pretty much back to normal. It's late August (very late - about 2 hours left) and i'm a Brit complaining about the weather.

This is nothing new, nor surprising. No doubt essays have been written for decades on our insistence to converse regarding how the natural world around us is behaving on any given day, but I suspect in fact this is more a human trait than a British one.

Pushing past weather, tonight we discuss the new great British passtime of "alternative" young - being in a band. No longer something with the high entry barriers it once held, which is of course a double edged sword. Four years ago I would never have expected to be a guitarist in a band, and that I love. The other edge is, of course, that the amount of competition is now far greater, and although the signal to noise ratio may have shifted towards noise, there is still a lot more good to compete with now.

This presents something of a problem for the talentless, or those of minimal technical ability ,allowing them to play a small part but essentially leave the creativity (musically at least) to others. Whilst i'm not an arrogant person by any means, I now find myself of the opinion that I can stand on stage and play to an audience. A thought of this nature several years ago would have been laughable, but now I cannot seem to fully form a response in my head.

For you see, in the past when watching friends perform, i've always felt I was as nervous for them as I would be if I was joining them. The pit of my stomach felt cold as I watched people I knew attempting to entice their audience.

...scratch this, wherever I was originally going with this i've lost it completely, but I refuse to edit. No time this time.

Another topic - Nope, not tonight.

Next time something coherant. If anyone wishes to finish my thought for me please feel free, leave me a comment.

EDIT:

Just realised that what i'm rambling about above is a continuation of something I said in my last post in June, which fills in the blanks i'm leaving here quite well.

Since then i've purchased some entry level recording equipment and produced the crap out of one full song for the band and a few covers myself, just to test out the equipment. Results have been encouraging. This field interests me more than most at the moment, though given how hard it is to get into production of any type in the current (old) media climate I doubt it would be a good career move. Lets call it a hobby for now.