You shouldn't even be writing this story if you haven't heard me play live. You can't write with the passion you receive until you see a Dick Dale concert.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Playing live is such a total visceral experience, and really, as a musician, you're trained from the beginning to be a live performer.
Playing live is closer to theatre, although when you're up there on your own, it's quite scary and revealing because you're playing your own songs. It's like a one man show that you've written yourself.
I'm a live performer and I love playing live.
From the first time you can look in the paper and you accept that you're the entertainment for some people that night, it becomes so much more enjoyable to play live.
Playing live was always definitely a lot more fun. You picture it: working alone in the studio eight or 10 hours a day with nobody else there, being frustrated and driven crazy by all of the things that you have to deal with, vs. thousands of people screaming and singing along with you playing.
Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.
My message to anyone who's afraid that they can't write music when they're happy is 'Just trust the passion.' The passion can write a lot of things.
My music lives because of real players.
There's real drama in performing live. You never know how it's going to be.
I've done nothing with my life but write plays.