{"id":19,"date":"2004-08-20T22:42:25","date_gmt":"2004-08-21T02:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/?p=19"},"modified":"2004-08-20T22:42:25","modified_gmt":"2004-08-21T02:42:25","slug":"quitting-the-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/quitting-the-band\/","title":{"rendered":"Quitting the Band"},"content":{"rendered":"

It wasn’t easy. I wanted to be an astronaut but the astigmatism was a problem. So I wanted to be a rock star, or at least thrash about in School of Rock<\/em> poses in a garage band. The money to buy the instruments never coincided with the right opportunity to play, unfortunately, and finding musicians you really want to play with is a delicate business. Being a DJ could give me a little taste, but it was definitely a wanna-be job in that respect. So lately, surprise! I found a bunch of musicians I liked playing with, and I had the instruments I wanted, even a P.A. and a garage to practice in, and now I find that a) I don’t have the time and b) I really want to play tightly-arranged power pop\/rock, and that kind of music takes lots of rehearsal that I don’t have the time for. Nor do my bandmates–and they don’t quite have the Badfinger\/Beatles\/Beach Boys\/XTC\/Who\/Big Star\/Fountains of Wayne bug that I do, anyway. I bet some of them think I made up “Big Star,” though of course I didn’t.<\/p>\n

So, dear reader, I don’t guess you or I will ever know if I had a “Strawberry Fields” or even a “Come and Get It” in me. I suppose it wasn’t meant to be, but at least I did shake a tailfeather, or something, a couple of times before I got too old. And there’s still the Todd Rundgren trip in my home studio. Or maybe that would be the Beck trip nowadays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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