Art For Art's Sake

Like the lyrics from the 10 cc tune, ever since I started teaching full-time my energy for music performance has dissolved to zilch. So the bottom line is that over the last couple of years I've hardly played anywhere!

My vocal-guitar-live-performance chops are fizzling, and all my fancy music gear is collecting dust.

You see, I've done a financially-commercially (reasonably) successful high-tech solo act since the early 80's, and I've generally found a way around my electrical day job to gig a fair amount. However teaching the Electrical Apprenticeship Program has turned out to be ever so much more energy consuming!

I miss performing in local venues a whole lot, yet I find it very hard to bring myself to simply play for fun. I also find it really hard to find people who are at my level; no hubris intended but most of the people I've met don't have a lot of live paid performance experience or the ones that do have lots of live paid performance experience are not overly interested in no-income casual jamming.

I don't want to hang up my shoes, or just play as a hobby, or only take the odd low-paying casual gig.

I'm kinda frustrated because all those years of rehearsal and effort seem to be wasting away, yet there's no way I wanna quit my teaching job as I like it muchly!