I don't play live much. I always use the excuse of "People get caught up in playing live all the time and don't end up enjoying it as much as they used to." But for me, I rarely play live at all.
Not counting when I'm playing in the garden and the neighbours are watching me, I have only played live once in about 3 years. How ridiculous is that for someone who is supposed to be a musician and love live music?? It's things like this that make me think "What the fuck is wrong with me??"
I'd like to get into the habit of playing once a month I think. I wouldn't want people to get bored of me and I most certainly wouldn't want myself to play just for the sake of it. Once a month and it can still be quite fresh and I could do new/different material in between those times too. I also notice that a lot of the times in local venues when bands are playing who will have their friends go to all of their gigs and then those friends will think that they are really cool as they know the songs and the band. Cool kids?? No, just kids. Get a life. I actually think I'd hate it if someone started to sing along to one of my songs whilst I was playing. It would make me want to throw my guitar at them. Appreciate-yes. Sing-along-no. Constructive crtisism-yes. Being an idiot-no.
