{"id":13265,"date":"2024-03-19T06:18:13","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T06:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=13265"},"modified":"2024-03-19T06:21:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T06:21:34","slug":"music-back-on-drums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=13265","title":{"rendered":"MUSiC: Back On Drums!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/e20c4d0e4fb2e03dd8622a808d01fe20-1.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, this is good! I recently set up my Gretsch Catalina Club Jazz kit. All my kits had been packed away, for quite a number of months. And I hadn\u2019t been playing for a good long while prior to packing them up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few fairly recent events in my life had precipitated the worst depression of my life so far. And I\u2019ve had a few such episodes over the years, alas. Both energy and desire had vanished from my life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was all I could do to survive, from day to day. There was nothing left in the tank for such past passions as musical creativity, or even just maintenance level practice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019d decided it was all just a delusional waste of time and energy. I was crushed, and beaten, by the vicissitudes of life. I\u2019d come to the conclusion I should jack it all in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And as a result of such thinking, and poverty, I\u2019ve already sold quite a substantial chunk of gear. Some of which decluttering is probably a good thing. But I\u2019ve also parted with stuff I\u2019d far rather have kept. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I feel that I might be gradually emerging from the slough of despond. The desire to set up my kit <em>and play it<\/em> came upon me. And it feels good. I\u2019m rustier than a\u2026 erm, rusty thang!? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But you gotta start where you\u2019re at. Ain\u2019t no place else one can start from!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, this is good! I recently set up my Gretsch Catalina Club Jazz kit. All my kits had been packed away, for quite a number of months. And I hadn\u2019t been playing for a good long while prior to packing them up. A few fairly recent events in my life had precipitated the worst depression &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=13265\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MUSiC: Back On Drums!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-3rX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13265"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13267,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13265\/revisions\/13267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}