I don't compose much, but after I die, I expect to decompose quite a bit.
Why Do We Play, Collect Guitars and Compose
- Thread starter Rich Cohen
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Rich Cohen
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Same here...but my guitars will live on!
You all have posted some interesting and inspiring stuff on this thread! I got started on guitar at 14 and soon decided I wanted to be a pro musician. I played all the way through college and decided not to go to grad school but 'play out.'
Did that for 23 years, on the road, and 'around town': whichever town I was in at the time (LA, Hartford, Tucson, Albuquerque, Missoula, Nashville). Somewhere in there I took up pedal steel: a great move. When I went into teaching, I still played. Then last year I retired after 30 years in education. These days I play pedal steel with 2 groups and 6-string with a third. And I do sessions. And jazz jam sessions with local cats. Music is 'funner' than ever because I don't have to support myself with it.
When sipping my first cup of coffee in the morning, I listen to NPR and run my scales on one of my Guilds. The fingerboard hasn't changed; it takes me back to Northern Virginia in 1958 and my Harmony knuckle-buster that Dad and I glued together . . .
Did that for 23 years, on the road, and 'around town': whichever town I was in at the time (LA, Hartford, Tucson, Albuquerque, Missoula, Nashville). Somewhere in there I took up pedal steel: a great move. When I went into teaching, I still played. Then last year I retired after 30 years in education. These days I play pedal steel with 2 groups and 6-string with a third. And I do sessions. And jazz jam sessions with local cats. Music is 'funner' than ever because I don't have to support myself with it.
When sipping my first cup of coffee in the morning, I listen to NPR and run my scales on one of my Guilds. The fingerboard hasn't changed; it takes me back to Northern Virginia in 1958 and my Harmony knuckle-buster that Dad and I glued together . . .