how many of the ILM critics are frustrated/failed musicians?

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i admit it. i am a failed musician. one day, i will have a band though.

― thesplooge (thesplooge), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

are we all ILM critics?

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Certainly we're all frustrated.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)

and all failures?

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 16:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I play the harmonica and in high school I was in a cover band doing vox and mediocre keyboards, and I sang three Steely Dan covers and was promptly dubbed "the Nightfly". Success!

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

People have commented that I am amazing at karaoke.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

gear!

there was this horrible bar in the valley called the rock and this girl i knew (this was like 94) used to go every thursday to see this steely dan cover band that did note for note renditions of many of their hits... i have a feeling your too young for this though.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

ha. i was in a band that released two albums, and i left them in november 2002. they broke up the following summer. i have been a frustrated failure ever since. that's why i'm here.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I have sung the following songs in karaoke, sometimes fairly well, thanks in part to my excellent dance moves: "The Stroke," "I Wanna Be Your Dog," "Chinese Rocks," "Pump It Up," "The Warrior," "Bust a Move." I also played the spoons once at a family picnic.

― chuck, Wednesday, 9 June 2004 16:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I am too young Gygax! in '94 I was in high school in Rockford IL, probably busy remembering my single line in Fiddler on the Roof ("Bagels! Fresh bagels!")

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)

how many times have we done a variation on this thread?

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 16:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't consider myself a critic but I am certainly a failed musician (if that means you haven't had success by age 28).

― 57 7th (calstars), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

My karaoke specialties : The Boys Are Back In Town, Thong Song, Paranoid.

I am Anthony Miccio!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I had a lot of fun, actually.

http://www.geocities.com/dickdestiny2000

― George Smith, Wednesday, 9 June 2004 16:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I was in Fiddler on the roof. I was "the oldest Yeshival student" which meant I had to make sure little kids got all the cues!

― HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm more successful as a musician than I am as a critic, if you're talking money. These days I would prefer to be a successful locksmith or a successful firefighter but I made bad choices.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I am a happy successful musician.

― Unknown User, Wednesday, 9 June 2004 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Ghostface Threadkillah is that you?

― 57 7th (calstars), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:37 (twenty-two years ago)

me: what's success and failure anyway?
bobbit #1: sounds like a question that only failures ask.
hobbit #2: promp him up, he's fallin' over!
me: why are talking about this on top of a garbage truck?
bobbit #1: we're looking for the rest of my penis.
me: oh yeah. least i have one of those!
hobbit #2: is that a dry erase board? (dives into the piles.)
me: no, i think that's an old kitchen cabinet.
bobbit #1: a successful person knows that crucial difference!
me: yeah, good for me!
hobbit #2: oh shit, my head. hey, perfectly good crackers! yum!
(the truck comes to an abrupt stop)
me: oh shit! (falls down the front of the truck.)
bobbit #1: that's a shame. he shouldn't have been standing on top of a moving garbage truck.
hobbit #2: well so are you.
bobbit #1: but i didn't fall.
hobbit #2: good point.
(the truck starts moving and runs me over.)
me: OWOWWW!!plech!
hobbit #2: hey, i found your penis!
bobbit #1: awesome, let's go to the arcade!
hobbit #2: sweet!

― msp, Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm a famous musician who used to be very successful and rich till you meddling kids came along with S******K! Now I live in a run-down fish hatchery and spend my days collecting small rocks for sustenance.

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Success and failure are purely relative. I am not a critic, but I am a recovering music snob. I would say that calling oneself a "musician" is relative, too.

― cramedog, Wednesday, 9 June 2004 20:27 (twenty-two years ago)

reminds me of something vonnegut said... about loving to go to a journalist hang out where his journalist friends could be alcoholics pretending to be writers and he could be a writer pretending to be an alcoholic. that might be backwards, but i think it works either way... with what you said about "musician" being relative. "critic" and "writer" are there too. there's something fairly universal about hiding from that shameful thing we are in quotation marks.

― msp, Wednesday, 9 June 2004 20:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not a critic, but I was in bands from age 13 to 17. I got to open for crappy bands like the Cherry Poppin' Daddies and VAST, before they were famous, errrr, flash in the pans. I'll start another band someday, but right now I'm having more fun screwing around with my laptop. I'm only 23, so not technically failed yet, certainly frustrated. And I'm a recovering music snob as well.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 20:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Not sicne I was 15 have I considered that being in a band would be good. I have no desire to play music, merely listen to, talk and write about it.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 20:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I was a frustrated singer for a few weeks but last Thursday I kicked ass at karaoke with "Eyes Without A Face" and "Ignition (Remix)." I think I've got my groove back. Tomorrow I'm definitely doing "Love Will Tear Us Apart" (the new place I'm going to has a rich songbook loaded with British hits for some reason - they've even got Paul Weller! wtf?)

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)

It's kind of embarassing how many songs I've done at karoake. I've been going once a week for about a year (Except for a three month hiatus in the winter) and the only songs I've done more than once have been "Opposites Attract," "Ignition" and "Genie In A Bottle."

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 20:54 (twenty-two years ago)

My version of "Stairway To Heaven" was described as Dylan-esque so I can't really consider myself frustrated or a failure.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 20:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I am a frustrated failure.

― Ryan Adams, Wednesday, 9 June 2004 23:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, I'm a quasi-failed and frustrated critic, does that count?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 23:44 (twenty-two years ago)

That probably belongs on the not-yet-existant "How Many ILM Posters Are Frustrated/Failed Critics?" thread.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 23:45 (twenty-two years ago)

frustrated, maybe, but hardly failed

― the surface noise is so overwhelming that it renders the contents of the re (ele, Wednesday, 9 June 2004 23:51 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, I guess I'm a failed critic too but I'm no longer frustrated.
realized I couldn't play guitar AT ALL early on. refused to ever consider the possibility of not being a writer, though.
the late johnny thunders told me "all critics are frustrated guitar players." so I could never take that one too seriously.
most rock critics are frustrated writers IMHO.

― lovebug starski, Thursday, 10 June 2004 09:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I would say that calling oneself a "musician" is relative, too.

Mm, good thinking! I had a *relatively* bad time listening to bands who couldn't play but had the 'tude and that's what fucken matters man is that it's in your heart yeah.

― Enrique (Enrique), Thursday, 10 June 2004 09:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha, about 5 years ago I was running a anat-guarde band called NE! comprising 3 Estonian music critics: me, Berk Vaher and Lauri Sommer. It was fun. We even released a album NE! & Berk Vaher (Vaher was most famous then) "Bullshience Fiction" and ´course performed several times. One gig ended up with fight between me and Vaher. Lauri Sommer`s still struggling as folk musician (called Kago) and released a solo-LP "Piimash" (under Kohvi Records, quite well-known electronic music label) last year.

― Margus Kiis, estonian rock critic (Margus Kiis, estonian rock cri), Thursday, 10 June 2004 10:10 (twenty-two years ago)

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