It's very quiet on here !

[Groundy]

I haven't had any interest in much of anything lately. Getting old and tired myself.

I know the feeling Gene.

Alex.

[Jean Pierre]

Come on! Courage... the road is long, guys.

[Ferryman]

It's too hot for me, I really don't like the heat. Not spending that much time at the computer because my study is tiny, it's in the hottest part of the house and having the computer and powered speakers on kicks out additional heat. And of course as I am in the UK, the only a/c I have is a fan, which just moves the hot air around.....

I've been retired for four months and haven't had enough time to do any recording yet! Crazy, but there we are. The heat doesn't help either, all my recording gear is in that hot little study....

Death has claimed two members of my family in the past few months.
I haven't had any interest in much of anything lately. Getting old and tired myself.

Condolences to you are your family. Take time for yourself.

[Oldrottenhead]

I haven't had any interest in much of anything lately. Getting old and tired myself.

I know the feeling Gene.

Alex.

you guys take care.

[Farrell Jackson]

I've been reading the comments and thinking about this post for a couple of days. I too have been preoccupied with other things that life has thrown my way, which gets in the way of my music creations. I don't practice near enough to stay sharp on the instruments I play so when I do find the time to record a lot of the time is spent familiarizing myself with what used to come natural. So it takes me a while to get a song completely finished. You'll notice I still do a lot of collabs with just me adding the vocals. I find that keeps me involved without a lot of effort and gives me motivation for my own songwriting and studio work. I've always used music as an escape or therapy and it still works for me in that way. When I hit the studio it has my full attention and all my problems are momentarily put on the shelf. I think we are all busy this time of the year and that once the summer is over we'll find time for the thing we all love.....making music. So until then, we hang on.  Just my thoughts on the subject.

Farrell

[TPB]

Yep the summer months I sold my house and bought a farm down the road Both close on Aug 3rd so between packing out the recording studio, house and two tool sheds have no time to do anything. Still checking in and should have the studio up and running by the end of Aug. I have a 40X80 Pole barn on the new place so the studio will be 20x40 large enough to record whole bands.
Tim

[Hook]

Just from watching this thread over the last few days its clear a lot of us are still around just consumed by other things. I feel like the music has just left me right now. I've had no inspiration and no inspiration to look for inspiration. My job is still to perform kids music, so I'm playing everyday but no writing or recording. I've been playing drums at my families church a bunch which is fun but in a " I love to bang on shit " kinda way.
I lurk more than log on and dont listen as often as I would like to, I have 4 kids ages 7-17...so life is kinda busy. I really miss writing and hope I get that motivation back. 
Stay strong Gene & Alex!
Rock on my friends!

[The Gobi Desert Canoe Club]

Yeah you're right, but it is the quiet time of year. I still post songs because I still write songs and good or bad (and there has been a few of them)  it won't stop until someone says you're too fucking old to write decent songs. I actually belonged to a site which is still going but dead on it's feet, this site won't ever become like that because we care too much, and more than that we care for each other. Willie

[Hilary]

Death has claimed two members of my family in the past few months.
I haven't had any interest in much of anything lately. Getting old and tired myself.

Sorry to hear your news Gene.

[IanR]

Hi friends,

I share a lot of the issues that many of you have expressed. I certainly have not had as much time this year due to work and trying to get fitter and lose weight to get my blood pressure under control (its fine now) but exercise (enjoyable though it is) takes time away from other pastimes. I still love music and songwriting and have purchased new gear (which still gives me a thrill), and have pushed out a couple of songs.

My outlook is positive as we have recruited people to help at work and I'm positive about the future.

I have heard many of you talking about a heatwave. You don't really understand heat (Alfredo excepted) unless you live here (in Australia) :-)

Have a happy summer.

Love from Ian