3 Sep
2010
3 Sep
'10
9:25 a.m.
On Thu, 2 Sep 2010, david wrote:
But if you simply "had to write songs" at
the expense of making a
living, ended up living on the streets, still making songs, I think it
would qualify quite well as some form of insanity. I understand OCD is
very popular now.
;-)
Well, it's never made me homeless, but I swear, the prices they charge
for ordinary things like mic and cymbal stands, drumheads, etc. has
certainly given its best shot and *trying* to make me broke. I think
Adrian Utley of Portishead is right about what he said about getting
into modular synths, except it's true for music gear in general -- it's
like a crack addiction. Once you get into it, you're a goner (and so
is your bank account).
That's also why I don't have any hardware modular synths. My vintage
keyboards are a bad enough money drain without getting into THAT... I'm
particularly avoiding the siren call of semi-modulars like the Arp 2600
and the Korg MS-20. Because...that's how it starts... :)
--
+ Brent A. Busby + "We've all heard that a million monkeys
+ UNIX Systems Admin + banging on a million typewriters will
+ University of Chicago + eventually reproduce the entire works of
+ Physical Sciences Div. + Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet,
+ James Franck Institute + we know this is not true." -Robert Wilensky