tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636445975594467756.post7211615040888141794..comments2023-08-27T03:45:49.708-07:00Comments on The Makeshift Musician: Don't Find Inspiration: Create It.Benhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17952138923856731688noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636445975594467756.post-20073315465114245622008-02-20T18:52:00.000-08:002008-02-20T18:52:00.000-08:00Ben.I don't know if I've told you about this RPM C...Ben.<BR/>I don't know if I've told you about this RPM Challenge thing (rpmchallenge.com), but I am just now finishing up my entry for this year (I've done it all three that it has existed). I put together a band of excellent musicians, and I would give them a prompt (a song about "the Road Warrior" that sounds like "Thunderstruck", or an electro-pop song using three organs) and then we'd write a song to fill it. We made eleven songs in five days. We might make one more. It has been such a good experience. It's nice to push yourself. Last year I did a fifteen track album in twenty-four hours.<BR/><BR/>Also, I know a pretty good surf-polka band back in New Hampshire. They're called the Serfs, and headed by Gary Sredzienski (of "Polka Party" fame).Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17390609251737725347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636445975594467756.post-28713155419091012442008-01-26T07:47:00.000-08:002008-01-26T07:47:00.000-08:00Hey Ben, You're absolutely right. Creativity is l...Hey Ben, You're absolutely right. Creativity is like a muscle: use it and it strengthens, ignore it and it atrophies. All of us have the capacity to learn and create so much more than we know. As for me, most of the time it goes like this: "I'm trying to think, and nothin' happens!"W.O.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/15103538086772029683noreply@blogger.com