PG Music Home Forums General Discussion Off-Topic Does all this music stuff I own actually produce better music?

Charlie, when the Beach Boys wrote their songs, they wrote them with a catalog of knowledge they amassed since childhood. They fact that they CHOSE to use The Wrecking Crew to play the music for the albums is moot. If that carried the weight you are giving it, the Wrecking Crew would have had to tour with them too because they had to play the stuff in concert. The burr under my saddle blanket is about the people with no knowledge and no skill who CAN'T play on tour. I have to think that almost everybody here is hobby level, and I'll even create a category called "advanced hobby level".

It's important to remember the long-standing position I have talked about here for many years now that the idea of entering this great world of music is to end up playing the Enormodome (as I have always called it) for 20,000 or more people. I've been dealing with the bitter disappointment of failing for a really long time. The best I did was being in well respected Great Lakes regional bands who played more copy than original music. When I hit maybe 42 (which would have been 1992) and accepted that it was over I went into such a deep depression that I didn't touch an instrument for like 15 years outside of playing one reunion show per year. I didn't set up a home studio and play again until 2009. MANY times I thought about how the music world didn't even know who I am and wouldn't miss me if I was gone. I looked at bridge abutments more than once, thinking that if I went fast enough when I drove into it, I wouldn't suffer for long. What was painful was that my failure was not for lack of effort. So when you DO try hard enough and fail anyway the only thing remaining is to admit you just don't have the talent.

This took a turn but the point is that the left hand column is names who HAVE talent and knowledge and choose to have studio players play for them, and the right hand column is those who have zero talent and knowledge but want to play in the same sandbox as the left hand column, and that column has an entry fee. MOST people don't agree that the left column is an exclusive members only club, and that's okay to not agree with that. But PLEASE don't use Brian Wilson as your example to which you compare the "load demo song" bunch.

Everybody seems to agree that YOU make music, not the toys you own, yet when I take that another step further it turns into this discussion again, which defends the side of the room that uses the tools exclusively with no human input at all.