「おおお、思い出せん」
元々、記憶力はそんなにいい方ではありませんでしたが、あれだけやりこんだ曲が全然頭に出てきません。しかも指もおっつかない。たったの2年で人間というものはこんなに変わるものでしょうか。時間って残酷。
嗚呼、商業的なパーティーバンドを辞めて、もっと芸術的な道を歩むことを決めた私。営業用に弾く技術や知識がすでに過去のものになったことが、嬉しくもあり、哀しくもあり…………
Rehearsal with Cody's band with the new keyboardist Tadataka Unno who recently moved to NYC from Japan. For the next gig, we are asked to play some dance music like disco and R&B. Well, I hate to brag but I used to be in a party band in Boston for five years and I am kind of an expert of dance music. I had played literally in everywhere on the East Coast almost every weekend and have done more than 300 parties and club gigs in total. I left the business-music scene to be a real artist and stopped playing this kind of music, but it is only two years ago. I should still remember the most of it, that I thought. I came to the rehearsal and started playing my bass with full confidence, but....
"I-I-I-I can't remember...."
Okay, I admit that I do not have a good memory but I thought... I mean, I wished I would remember a little bit more. On top of that, my fingers did not move up to the speed. How can a man really decay this much in two short years? Time is cruel.
I quited the party band to pursue the artistry of music. Today I noticed that the knowledge and the technique to play those business music had become the things of the past for me. Well, it is a joy, but it is sad....
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