There's No Reason It Can't Be Fun

A cover I just made of the song “Hair” by the band The Early November (one of my favorite bands from the 2000’s)

Back before I started making review videos, I made videos playing music on youtube, and I played in bands as well. Once I started acquiring gear that I could have only dreamed of when I was a kid, oddly enough I stopped making as much music. I have written music here and there for fun, but in no way shape or form have I written or recorded the amount I used to.

Therefore, I am setting a goal to record music with each of the higher end mics that I have reviewed and will be reviewing because it truly is a crime to have the gear that I have and not use it for it’s intended purpose.

This decision and motivation has come from multiple events. First, I have had multiple conversations with a gent about gear, and people’s misconception that you need the best gear to make it, which is not the case. All you need is an idea and some form of recorder to get it out. If the idea is good enough, people will enjoy it regardless. Our conversations have been incredibly inspiring to me to get back into being creative with my time as opposed to just reviewing stuff.

And second, the nail in the coffin, came while watching Joe Bob’s Last Drive in when he shared his final thoughts regarding film making he said something that hit me right in my blackened heart and it applies to music, youtube, writing, or painting just as much as it does to filmmaking:

“Be prepared to fail, for a day or a week or a year, but don’t ever say ‘I’m not a filmmaker’. You’re a film maker, that’s what filmmakers do, they fail until they don’t. And then send me your movie, because believe it or not, I’m dying to see it, we all are. WE JUST DIDN’T KNOW IT UNTIL YOU MADE IT”.

The moral of the story is, I’m going to do everything I can to get back into making music, because that’s my first love, it’s what I’ve always wanted to do, and it’s one of the things I do best (even if the final product would make you think otherwise). I challenge you to stop putting off the thing you love, and get working on it. We only have one life, and there’s no reason it can’t be fun.