My brother-in-law, Tucker, has said he is in a band. Some nights he claimed he went to "band practice", but he finally proved it to us. Tyler and I went and watched their band (The Avenues) play last Friday night.
This was a little bit of a weird thing for us. First off the show didn't even start until 8:30 which is when we start getting ready for bed, but I guess sometimes you have to step out of your comfort zone, and I am glad that we did.
It was fun to go out and see some people play music that they thought of themselves and actually had some feeling to it. I also enjoyed the band that played before The Avenues, they called themselves Hobnob. They were younger but still pretty good, better than me anyways.
However I did learn that there are a couple things that I need to enjoy my music. I want completely undistorted music, I feel like distortion is used as a tool to mask how you measure up as a musician. If you can't hit all the notes turn up the distortion and nobody will be able to tell.
The second thing I realized is that if music has lyrics, I want to be able to hear them. I love instrumentals, but if a song has lyrics I feel like I am being cheated when I can't understand them. I realize that isn't always the musicians fault, it depends a lot on the equipment being used and the venue where they are playing.
Anyway the point is I wasn't completely converted to unproduced music, but I am glad I went and I am impressed with the drumming talent we now have in this family. I am thinking when Levi gets older he will have to take lessons. (Secretly it is because I would love to learn how to play, actually I want to learn how to play everything, if only I had unlimited time and money. I guess I will stick with my violin.)
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