Ten Years From Now

Ten years from now where will you be musically? Will you be playing for your own pleasure, in a band, playing professionally, will you have hung up your guitar for career and family.........?????
Which may be the same as asking why you first decided to learn to play.
Is it harder than you thought it would be or easier? Will you persist?

ten years from now ,i would like to thinck i would play pretty decent by then i just started 5mths ago when my grandaughter was born either that or arthreritis will kick my ass

i would either want to be in a popular metal band... or just settle in a small town somewhere and get married =p either way

Metal Band touring for the cause.

In a mildly successful rock band, owning a recording studio, giving guitar lessons in the week and working at a rock club on the weekends.

what ive always wanted, a family somewhere in a quaint quiet little town with a middle class family, middle class job, living on a lake, working by day, fishing by night, not a care in the world. i picture myself as a guitar player who plays for his own pleasure, i dont mind being in a band, dont expect anything to come of it tho, and would rather nothing to come of it.

I thought the same as EMB until I went to a concert and then Jammed with a band. I wanna tour. I love traveling.

sure, i wouldnt mind touring, and would love to be with a world touring band, but REALISTICLY i wana do tht.

ill open for the big guys, my band will be above most bands in mexico, and with the money i get ill invest it in something that will help me in the future if theres economical problems in mexico, spain or argentina.. ill live in any of those, not sure, when i get to 25 ill probably marry and my fans will get dissapointed lol. ill have middle high class income
and ill quit my job for pare time with my grandsons when im 55-60... ill be a rock legend

I would like to think that I will be in a band that plays semi local gigs at bars and clubs. Also something I have put some thought into, I would like to play on an outside stage.

and the press will annoy you till you go crazy and kill someone =p

I hope I will be famous (:
It's always been my dream to make it big with guitar.

Same as i am now. I'm a bedroom guitar player who hates playing live but like to play and try and create. I hope i would have learned to master sweep pick and maybe some other more advanced skills.

amen brother

Well my family actually has had alot of sucess musically so I doubt I'll hit it big but I'll probly be in an opener kinda band maybe like High On Fire and get on the Gigantour but guarantee I'll be in bands around whatever town I'm in forever and I'll probly teach lessons to pay the rent as I doubt I can write a masterpiece

if i do get in a band i think i would rather sing than play guitar, gives me more freedom to be crazy on live shows =)

then probly do some neoclassical, instrumental stuff on the side

My dream is to be in a big-time rock band, hopefully revitalizing the genre--Or maybe even pioneering a new one. If this happens before I graduate from university I would like to return to studying and attain a degree, then become a rocker/philanthropist a la Bono.

Realistically, I'll attend one of Iowa's public universities (Iowa State or the U of Iowa) majoring in, possibly, chemical engineering, nuclear physics, or linguistics. Maybe become a bit of a Renaissance-man.

Edit-And continue playing small venues solo or with a band :)

I'll prolly be living in a shabby apartment with a couple of friends, gettin' buzzed on cold beer and then goin' downtown for a gig in the next bar down the lane, cigarette in my mouth the whole time.

Nice lifestyle xD

I hope to be touring. Yer know, playing small clubs. I'd like to go to manchester, actually.

GB: you might be being sarcastic about slingers future - but that to me looks more fun than getting a nice house, and becoming just another average guy. Infact, I reckon I'll be like that myself for a while.

I wouldn't mind having that lifestyle that GS spoke of. Shit, Cigarettes & Alcohol, working at a guitar shop, and chillin with friends at night while listening to some fucking class tunes.

I was being sarcastic lol.
I wanna be a healthier person, I'm gonna stay away from smoking and drugs. I might drink though when I am older.

@GB

You know how many alcoholics are rich?

Ohhh, don't get me wrong GB, i'll probably be living a healthy lifestyle... I just want to have an interesting life aswell.

Hopefully, My band will go pro, but if that happened I don't expect us to be a "Big Name" Band, just something where people know us and we get a decent crowd a concerts.

Yeah, I really want that level of success DarkRiff. I want to be able to tour and have people at all the shows... but I don't care if I'm in a band that sells shows out or plays massive gigs.

I'd like to play Wembley stadium, so I might HAVE to be a big name. Of course, playing clubs/mid-sized venues is fine too.

Yeah there are loads of rich alcoholics.
I honestly wouldn't be in it for the money, I would just be doing it cause I love to do it. Though I would hope to make a little bit of money off it. I don't wanna be like today's artists and be all mainstream and posers.

I wanna be John Lennon, and Liam Gallagher.

Essentially, I have 3 reasons (the major ones anyway) for choosing music as my career

A: Music is all I'm really good at
B: I love music with a passion
C: I want that feeling of being on stage, hundreds, thousands, maybe even millions, of people watching me and absolutely loving the music. The solo pumps out of the speakers, and for those few seconds, I'm immortal
D: I'm not really seen as anyone. I'm unimportant, and I can be replaced. But, if my music gets out there to the people, then I might actually be worth something.

Basically, music gives me a meaning.

Skold I kinda feel the same way as you

yeah.. me too. theres 2 ways i can be soomeone in life: i become a rock legend. or a famous hipnotist.. and for me its easier to become an awesome musician

I just want to write a few songs that people will absolutely wish they wrote. Kind of like Knocking on Heavens Door! I wish I wrote that song.

Yeah, i know. Bob Dylan wrote all the songs i wish i wrote too

I generally don't wish I had written any certain song. I usually wish I could have experienced the song.

I agree, Id love to write some song that touches peoples' hearts

Realistically, though, Im probly going to be working for some job, have a nice wife, and be playing for pleasure in some small town

I dont intend to form a band or tour, but if anyone I meet along the way offers me a spot in a band, I might consider it

I always wish I'd written other peoples songs.

I'll still be practicing but I'll need a coffin the right shape!