At least for a little while.
You will give way more than your fair share, and get back more than you can imagine.
The strange obligation to each other, the excitement and boredom, the fighting and resolving, the things you see together, all the food, being on the same weird schedule. And of course whatever fashion is happening at the time.
No one is under contract to keep showing up, but they do.
A group of people forced (by choice) into all kinds of trouble and triumph.
Doctors are always very thankful for me waiting for them. Not enough to be on time.
Nothing says ‘we care’ like an automated voice telling me ‘we care’ as I’m put on hold.
The welcome sign at the front of the building is rarely welcoming.
Everyday we have the chance to say what we mean vs saying what we wish we meant.
Everyone one in the audience can see everyone on stage.
But it’s hard for the audience to focus on more than one person at a time.
(insert lead singer tropes here)
But after all the jokes…it’s a heavy lift to carry the spotlight on your shoulders for an hour or two every night. And this is why the great ones are few and far between.
»» The band has to understand that while most people are watching the lead singer, some in the audience are watching the band. So everyone has to perform the entire time. Everyone has to be compelling enough to warrant individual attention…while knowing that that level of intentionality might simply be in support of whoever is in the spotlight.
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When we listen to a song, there’s no doubt in our minds that’s how the song goes. The drums sound like that, there’s that musical hook there, the vocals have that treatment, and it has the vibe we like. We listen and love it.
But there’s a pretty good chance it didn’t always go like that. It started out as a voice memo or an acoustic guitar and vocal…a chord structure, a melody and maybe some lyrics. All that other stuff: the production, the vibe, that weird thing in the intro…someone came up with that.
And it’s not a given. It takes skill and vision and trust to make all those choices.