I think that for most of my life, I always wanted to play music. Most of it stemming from the period I grew up in as a very young boy, that being in the mid 90s to I guess the mid 00s (at least until I was 12 or 13 maybe) since I had listened to a lot of the more popular rock music at the time, good and bad. The band that made me really want to go into playing an instrument was probably Green Day, a band that I still love to this day, having grown up with Dookie and listening to American Idiot for quite a while. An experience that I kind of regret not going into all that much was getting CDs by The Clash and Jane's Addiction and not really giving them much of a chance (and I really wish I had those now) since I think my playing style might have gone slightly different if I had.
Also it was when I got my first guitar and like most kids my age, I sucked really badly and got discouraged easily and when I moved to live with my mom, I didn't play it again for at least three years. I got it sent back to me and even though the guitar I had was kind of a piece of cheap crap, I played it for quite a while trying to at least get used to playing. After my first job during the summer before my senior year of high school, I bought myself another guitar which was only a slightly better quality one that is the one I still play to this day. I tried my hands at all kinds of genres, from folk to metal and even a little bit of jazz thrown in there, and my skills somewhat improved to the point where I could consider myself an amateur player. I knew kids in school that played instruments but never really got the chance to do anything with them since we usually never shared the same tastes and up to this point, I have never played in a band once. I almost tried out for one but couldn't figure out how to get there on my own yet I am a fan of theirs anyway and I wish them luck in the future.
And since it has become difficult to get likeminded people in my area in a band for some reason, I tried my hand at recording stuff I've written on my own. Which is a pain since I own just two guitars and an electronic drum set and my only way of recording is through a microphone hooked up to the computer. I also have a tendency to forget a lot of the stuff I came up with so this becomes a problem easily. A few tracks I have are just guitar tracks that are terrible quality in both the sound department and songwriting. I consider them mostly experiments that could be improved upon greatly if I had people to work with. Alas, that hasn't come yet.
I really wish I could find people to play with even if it's only for a few weeks or something because it does get rather repetitive to play stuff all alone without having anyone to really criticize it and help to improve my playing which is kind of why I gave up playing for quite a time and thought of switching to a different instrument. I would rather just have a couple more instruments and just mess around with them since I do prefer experimenting with sounds. Since I have commented before that my favorite band currently (and probably will be forever) is The Cure and part of it is the sound as a whole is really interesting to listen to since there are so many layers of instruments that usually play just a single figure over and over again yet they keep adding on to it and make it all sound pleasing consistently. It is kind of what I really wish I could get at but I don't consider myself that skilled at all. I really hope that one day I do. But what I plan to do right now is just experiment with this crappy recording setup and see how I can make it at least sound somewhat decent and maybe record some material of my own again. This rant went by rather short, sadly.
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