It occurs to me that, while I play in a cool band and am a solo musician with album, I additionally have a
surprisingly extensive pseudo-career. If you want to get technical
about it, I am officially in two other bands: a screamo/experimental
heavy band and a folk/metal comedy duo. Neither of them have done
anything at all to this point, up to and including playing together. I
think in each case we still actively plan to do something, though, so these exist more in the realm of quantum possibility.
Others
are more nebulous. I have also agreed to be in a backing band for a
singer/songwriter colleague, but as the singer joined another band, I'm beginning to
suspect this won't ever happen. The other singer in my last band had
asked me on at least ten other occasions to play with him in side
projects. He has now (according to his own claims) "quit music
forever." I'm not sure why anyone would make such a proclamation.
Personally, I don't trust anyone's judgement when they say they will
never play with people at any point in time until the day they shuffle off this mortal
coil. However, I have to accept such a statement as probably spelling
the death of all these side projects. Nevertheless, I still really feel
the need to count them as elements in my pseudo-career...for whatever little that is worth.
It is strange, though, that the catalog of probably-never-gonna-come-to-fruition acts is so sizable. I wonder what this says about me. Is playing with me the kind of thing that sounds like a good idea right up until the point one sobers up? But this sounds like a candidate for the ever-growing list of "if you ever thought about it, the answers would only keep you up at night" questions. So I'm better off just moving to other things in my mind.
Still, though, I can't help but wonder what it would be like if I could move any of these possibilities from the quantum realm into the actual world. Shame my math skills were never good enough to allow me to become that kind of mad scientist.
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