Hey team,

So, we’re trying to get a little more serious with our music making, but it’s a lot of work – and mostly I’m lazy and expecting everything to be handed to me on a gigantic silver platter covered with maraschino cherries and yerba matte tea.  It’s not happening.  Although sometimes I get the tea, but I have to make it first.

Both of us in the band are full time family men with full time employment and full time lives.  Music and performance is the side project of our days but a central part of our being… mabye.  It’s definitely a central part of what I think my being is.  Anyway, I watch all these performers and singers and actors and yada yadda, and they make it their full time life.  And I don’t blame them.  It may be a life of initial (and potential) destitution of wealth, but it seems it’s the only way to truly reach the limits of your potential.

Any thoughts or ideas on how to pursue your dream when you don’t really have the freedom to ditch the part of your life that is allowing your family of 5 (or 4, whichever of us is metaphorically speaking right now) to eat, sleep and go to gymnastics?  How do you make your dreams come true AFTER you’ve moved out of your parents basement?

from Brad