Jeezes...I took a nap and you guys typed a lot of stuff.

David...Moving is not just about music...lol

Every year about this time I start thinking about moving some where much cooler with no hurricanes. So moving to back to LA or Nashville is on my mind every year. At the moment the brown LA smog has turned into red disaster. Glad I am here at the moment.

Then I look around at all the "stuff" I have collected up and all the work to load it up and unload it on the other end...by that time it is November and the weather is really super. What we live in south Florida for. Put it off till next year...lol

It looks like there are as many reasons for using BIAB as there are people on this site.

If I never turn it on again, this is still the best forum there is on the internet. That is true because of the people who are here all the time....great group of folks.

This has been a really good thread because I feel like I know a lot more about the people here.

I think my issue is the process. I have an idea, come up with a basic chord progression on guitar or piano, write some lyrics, then go to BIAB and try to make all that fit together. I assume that is not that easy to do for anyone.

Like Bud said, I find it fun to see people who I know of like Brent Mason on TV and know I have access to him on my computer. I don't know what Brent gets for studio time in Nashville but I am sure it is not cheep.

There are two things that have always been problematic for me, drums and vocals. If you like to create music in several styles, you need more than one vocalist. We always joked about the drummer issue in the band. If we ever found one we liked, one of us would need to marry him or her on the spot...lol

As I get older my ability to play guitar gets less and less so I become dependent on others to play what I dream up. I have been very lucky to have super good musicians to play with all my life.
Music has always taken a back seat to other business ventures which gave me the where with all to afford to go mess around in a studio.

All my life it has been four things. Flying airplanes, running boats, making music, working a hundred hours a week to afford all that. At least I have a wonderful wife who puts up with all that.

Cheers,

Billy

“Amazing! I’ll be working with Jaco Pastorius, Charlie Parker, Art Tatum, and Buddy Rich, and you’re telling me it’s not that great of a gig?
“Well…” Saint Peter, hesitated, “God’s got this girlfriend who thinks she can sing…”