You’re asking a musician to be timely, reliable, etc.? With no disrespect to you or your musicianship, IME musicians, and other sorts of artists, seem almost congenitally incapable of such behavior.
“Whatever; whenever; probably or maybe not; we’ll see” seems to be their life motto.
The most unreliable person, as far a personal commitments was a police officer.
He was awarded a couple metals and praised for being a great policeman.
Could not keep an appointment or show up for anything. If he showed up he was always late.
Musicians? pfft. I think people get so overwhelmed with careers, families, hobbies. Something has to give.
It’s always the soft things like family and friends that suffer.
How nature tells us to stay away.
I am surrounded by truly flaky people in my professional life, so I feel your pain. And I’m the one with executive function problems! Still, I manage to coordinate everyone on a tight deadline and be ultra-clear about what I need from people and by what date.
And they are entirely unreliable at getting me those things on time! It is maddening.
Not at “first glance,” (or even after lengthy consideration). But there are some illuminating experiments that reveal how readily complexity can arise from simplicity, including self-replication. A wonderful mathematical model that is fun and astonishing is John Conway’s Game of Life. Four simple rules that determine the binary state of cells in a grid provide an environment that can be configured to make a fully functional computer.
My students found it very helpful in getting a handle on how much potential lies in every physical system.
Dad is the one taking the photos.
I’m in one picture with my kid, and no video.
That’s a reputation well earned by the top-tier celeb-intitled musicians of a half-century ago, but I don 't think it is still true, and probably never true of small venue musicians. I see 50 or more performances a year by touring musicians at small venues and I’m astounded at how reliably those bands are on stage on time despite being up late the night before and traveling hundreds of miles in a cramped van. Most are manning the merch table as soon as the doors open.
That did cross my mind.
My husband is the family photographer and takes it very seriously. I got him a fancy tripod for Christmas so he can be in photos too.
Thank you, it’s been a lot and I know you’ve had so much on your plate, too. I hope all is well.
@Patx2 , I am distressed for you.
I hope as Dopers we can give you adult conversation and a giggle occasionally.
Thinking of you. Good luck with your “Wonders” to come.
I can finally breathe now. Contact has been re-established, and a scratch copy of the piano track for a song we are performing for a video recording session on Sunday has finally appeared (promised for a week and a half).
In theory I’ll get the polished version in the morning.
I’ll take tomorrow off so I can focus on recording my bass lines the way I want and get that off to our drummer (yes, we’re doing things backwards) who will then come to my home studio and record his drum tracks on a five mic setup.
Then I’ll put it all together in REAPER and we can do the “Ed Sullivan Show” trick on Sunday for the video session, playing our instruments intensely while listening to the perfect recording in the background without a care in the world of our mistakes because we will replace that audio with our perfect version.
But the thing is, the pianist was on the critical path, holding up ALL of the remaining steps, and she was not communicating. Argh!
Thanks, Beck means a lot!