So it's like this...
I put everything on the back burner, (music included), and drop myself into a basement to work on a very long project. In fact it took 2 years and 7 months from planning and research to development and launch.
I've been SO drowned in work that it felt like I was literally trying to tread water just to see life floating by me. Then to top it off I was working from home so the family is like "here Dex, raise your neice while you're at it."
I pulled so much hair out I'm surprised I still have a fro! Yeah, I was THAT frustrated AND I was so stressed that I have my first gray hairs. OMG! Not that!
Anyway most people would have given up for sure especially considering that I wasn't getting paid for any of it, so keeping the income flowing while devoting that much time to something that didn't pay was like trying to run up a water slide. One day at a time is now one of my personal favorite sayings.
You know what though? Almost three years and guess what? I'M DONE!!! Finally done! I can breath again.
Anyway I did something for the first time this week that I haven't done since I started - I played my Double Bass :) I know, I know... it's crazy to leave behind your music for so long. I'll tell ya what though. IT - FELT - GREAT to play again.
Although you'd think that I'm back rehearsing for the philharmonic again the way I've been playing. Seriously, Dr Float would be SO proud. I've been playing 5 or 6 hours a day. no lie.
And yes, I do still have the fro and a goatie... well the whole island-boy version of it. I SAY AYE MAN!
Check this.. First. The Bass, (and yes that's music on the dresser behind it).
Next. The Fro! Yeah boy.
It feels so good to be back. Upcoming plans? I'm doing a revision of my book
Music for the Simple Man (featured on Amazon.com and available from the
publisher.
Also available from the publisher is the first of seven string orchestra compositions of mine. I will publish the others later this year. Sorry about the cheap midi guys, I haven't had a chance to get the quartet together to record this in the studio. I'm waiting for when the other 6 are complete so I can have them all recorded, (so far only 4 of them are).
In a nutshell I could have just said, "hey I'm writing music again" instead of turning this into an impromptu ad right?
In the next few weeks I'm restarting the business side of my music business. It's been stagnant for way too long and I've got a box full of artists from North Carolina that I just couldn't have done anything with because I was so busy.
The radio station will be back up and running, just not live until I get a crew back and some proper programming lined up.
Basically I've left one busy behind for another, but this time it's a passion. One of those rare good busy's where you get to do what you love and enjoying a God-given talent.
Music is the heart of us all, touching lives beyond and un-impeded by the barriers that we put up. Shape, color, age, sex, beliefs, not even language can stop music from enriching a life.
Peace, Dex