I've really been wanting to be part of something lately. I like the collaboration aspect of a band. I may just be saying that because I've been writing and playing all my own stuff for forever, but sometimes I feel like when I look back at my own music it just seems so stagnate. I would consider myself a pretty big fan of music, and I like to think that I have a pretty good taste in music.... so when I go to make my own, it can become a very depressing process when I find myself rarely satisfied with the results. I don't write, record and play with the intention of "making a cool song" or really "what someone else will think", but I do always think that with each song I write I'm growing and getting closer to making something great. Yet it's always like that.... just getting closer, but never really quite there.

It's not like I want to be obsessed with my songs, or adore them the way I adore music by the artists I love, but I'd just like to be happy with a song... in it's entirety. Possibly I will reach that point someday, hopefully sooner than later. Anyway... maybe I'm looking way too deep into this, but that's really just how I feel.

So, onto what I originally set out to "discuss". I think if you're working with passionate, intelligent, talented and patient artists... together you can really breathe life into a song, in a much different light than you would yourself. Not that it would necessarily be better, but different. You always hear about companies wanting to diversify.... and why? To set themselves apart, to be different. So, although a band is very different from a company, it can be very similar. Throwing together four different people with different ideas is already diversifying... it can be exciting... and endless possibilities.

It's a lot about priorities too, and the reasons you're apart of this collective unit. Money, fame, popularity, fun, passion? Personally, I just want to play music because I love it, I'm not the greatest or most skilled... but I love it, and it's always been an outlet in my life that I'm very grateful for. I think if you are in it for different reasons you'll have a harder time... (unless you're talking about doing "commericial work" which isn't what I'm talking about). I'm talking about music as an art form, not as a business. Don't get me wrong, those lines can blur, and it can be fine (I'm not really a believer of, "oh man, they sold out", because that's what you do if you want to make money playing music, and it's fine as long as you aren't compromising your art).

And sure I'd love to not have a "real job" and just make tons of money playing music - but that is not my intention or really ever even anything that crosses my mind. I just would like to create some music, play some shows, and have some fun.

I'd like to even just sit around a bonfire and jam.