waltertore
1612 posts
Nov 04, 2011
9:58 AM
|
I wish everyone the faith to follow your musical dreams without wordly concerns. I am sitting here reflecting on my 40 years of playing and the journies it has taken me on around the world.I see countless smiling faces of hope that have intersected with me on this journey. These are more precious than millions of dollars for me. Life continues to unfold with magical musical dreams for me and I have yet to say no to when it tells me what to do. All along the journey I also met countless people that feared their dreams. They saw my life as a trainwreck in progress due to: my lack of education, no money but what was in my pocket, no home ownership, no career, traveling to all points of the world with no guarantee of gigs outside of playing wherever I stood for the given moment(often a streetcorner).
This seemed to terrify them, and often they were musicians in frustration. That always saddened me. I would try to encourage them to let go of their fears and let the dreams carry them. I still live this way and look forward to see where my senior years music chapter will carry me to. FYI my trainwreck never happened. The musical dream has connected me with my lovely wife of 30 years and has continued to make my life more finacially stable than I ever imagined possible. This has given me complete control over my music as it is played, promoted, and recorded. I no longer need to play to survive financially. I thought that would be a curse but it has turned out to be a blessing because I can pick exactly what I want to do. My 1 man band sound is not of as interesting to most vs. fronting a slick real band. But now I can do my 1MB and play the same stinking beat all day and as long as I feel good, the universe and I are at peace!!! What a wonderful place to be!
Leaving home as a teenager with nothing but the clothes on my back, a few flat harps, and a POS acoustic guitar sure has blossomed into a lovely place to be and via a route I never in my wildest dreams thought would be the route I would be on. My mentors never reached that place. They played, often to the day they died on stages, and dealt with endless BS that goes with that lifestyle as at best a B grade level musical money earner. That saddens me as well. I feel like they built the foundation of the house and I got to live in it. I hope somehow I can pass along some of the good stuff that they passed on to me. Don't fear your dreams- they will carry to places you never thought possible! Walter
----------
walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year.
" life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
2,800+ of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 most current songs
my videos
Last Edited by on Nov 04, 2011 11:11 AM
|
