Fly dates are a good sign.
They had other options who didn’t require plane tickets. Cheaper options. Options closer to home. Options that are similar to you. But they didn’t want any of those.
They wanted you to fly across the country to do the thing you do.
Fly dates mean they don’t just want someone, they want you.
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Our plans consist of things which we want to have happen.
But often times things don’t go how we want them to happen.
So should we change our plans to include those things too so that our plans will be correct?
That’s silly. Of course not.
We plan from a place of hope. And hope helps us push through when the bridge starts getting shaky…even though the shaky bridge wasn’t part of the plan.
There’s no need to try and make plans that are more accurate to what will actually happen.
We need more plans that are carried out with commitment…despite things not going as planned.
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I’ve recorded to tape.
I’ve recorded to protools.
The main difference is not the sound. It’s the attitude.
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Everyones spring and summer tour numbers are the same. Zero.
No sold out shows or tours. No cool show photos from stage to post each night. No videos of the crowd singing along.
The live show playing field is (temporarily) leveled. There’s no leverage there at the moment.
So you get to do something else. Build leverage and status a different way.
Try something.
And it’s a great time to try something out of the ordinary. Your audience is extra gracious right now. They get it.
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I remember having to flip the cassette.
The physical action and little bit of time it took to flip the tape made the second half the the album to feel like an exciting reawakening. Revving the engine back up.
And because of that (as with actual records before) I can only guess the running order of the songs was juggled. Which song was first? How should the first side end? When people flip the tape what sounds best to open the B side? How do we want to end not only the B side, but the whole thing?
The medium of a cassette meant there was going to be a little silence, a built in lull to the listening experience. And silence makes a difference to how people hear your songs.
The gap between the A side and B side (records and cassettes). The little bits of silence from one song to another…and secret songs (CDs). The amount of nanoseconds from when someone presses play to when the song starts (Streaming). Silence and space and gaps are interesting parts of the music listening experience.
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I was exhausted but I had to keep going with the work that needed to get done. I had time for about a five minute break but not a seventy two hour break like I really wanted.
As I was sitting there taking a quick breather, the voice in my head (similar to the voice you have in your head) told me to smile. Not to only think about smiling, but to actually smile.
I felt dumb but I did it anyway. It helped.
And I don’t know if it made me less tired but it helped me appreciate why I was tired and that gave me more energy.
Maybe this will work for you next time. No harm in trying.
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