The Power Of Association: Making Music With Our Friends

·         A cheerful peer group to play with is a powerful motivator to playing music in our maturity. The power of association is a well documented phenomenon. Successful people hang with successes, juvenile delinquents hang with other delinquents. The mediocre flock together like lemmings.
·         We need a serious peer group to maintain our focus, a difficult thing to do if our peer group(s) are a bunch of grumpy old farts. Or worse, grumpy old farts playing the same old same old.
·         I remember in the mid 90’s playing with some old timers. I noticed a set list in the sax case of the band leader dated 1956! We were playing the list. Wow.
·         Musicians need to play with other musicians. Good musicians need to hang with good musicians. Aspiring musicians need to hang with great musicians.

​My cure for grumpiness: Get fit, change your terrible diet, take music lessons again, stop drinking so much, get some sleep, join a new band, take your spouse on a date, and update your wardrobe.
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Cheers,
David Story
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