Well, I was gonna wait a little longer to post this, but a runaway thread prompted me to do it earlier.
The short of it is that I'm pulling the plug on BrainRock. I'm not doing the show anymore for two very good reasons. The first and foremost is that I don't have time anymore. For those of you that are not aware, I busted myself up pretty bad about 19 months ago. Disability and workman's comp gave me the time to do a show, but now that I'm back on my feet, literally, I am back to full time school, internship, and pretty soon, work.
The second reason is that collecting, studying, and appreciating music is a hobby. Hobbies are supposed to be fun and relaxing. Making shows is supposed to be fun, and for the most part it was. But when your hobby gives you a weekly deadline, suddenly your hobby leads to stress, and that's not cool. I need to start listening to music for music's sake again, rather than listening with an ear to playing on a show. I did about 25 shows, and about 12-15 were phenomenal, five more were pretty good, but the rest weren't so good. It's tough to make a good show every week when you don't have a lot of time and you don't get paid for it. You do it in your free time. Tell you the truth, I don't know how TOIB does it. Rick just started so we'll see how he does in the long run
. Gnosis is like five guys, so that's a good system!
Anyway, I told Jim about two weeks ago but wanted to wait a little longer before I posted here, which I'm doing now. With Jim's permission, I'll still be finding and adding missing album covers as they come up, and will try to find time to start making new liners and station IDs as Roger.Lee asked me to do back in November
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PS, BrainRock is over, but I'm not going anywhere.
