The Music Mogul

I love music but don’t have the talent to make any.

When I way young my father would play his chanter. This is the bit of the bagpipes that produces the notes but modified to play standalone. He was my hero. He could play just about anything that could produced music. I think one of his disappointment was my inability to learn music. I guess he saw him and me heading of to band practice together.

I have often wondered if I had applied myself would I have been able. I can hear melody, pick up rhythms and pound out a beat with my hands and feet. Maybe it was just my stubbornness and lazyness that stopped me.

When I was a bit older I bought a synthesiser. I think I thought that I could learn music through diffusion or something. Anyway I fiddled with it quite a bit making sounds but not producing music, maybe I was a pioneer of atmosphere?

I was a DJ for a while after I quit high school. It was the best job in the world. My Dad cautioned me that there was no future in it and so I got an apprenticeship as an electrician. I did a few gigs after that but not many.

I was going to rabbit on about my music collection but I guess the journey was more interesting than the destination……