After taking the time to read your bio/resume on your Taxi page, and watching 2 You Tube posts of live performances, clearly you've had an enviable career sharing the stage & spotlight with A-listers; "top of the food-chain" elevation, as it were.
It's understandable that going from there to "being the servant" might feel like a huge step backwards.
However, and making some huge assumptions: you jumped into the Taxi pool... because you still enjoy the adventure & challenge of creating new music; and/or using your achievements as a diving board to prolong the career. Both are noble reasons, imho. The mantra from Taxi-folks who take aim at fulfilling - to the letter - the descriptions in the listings remains: "give 'em what they want."
It sounds simple enough; but it may taste a bit too much like humble pie to some folks;
particularly if you/they've grown accustom to the lofty place... top of the heap, thank you Frank.
If being a servant to the client feels too much like a backward move, and not enough of a creative challenge: perhaps the road just does not suit you... nor lead to your destination.
Is that reasonable... and possibly true in this case?
FWIW: a dozen years ago I had the opportunity to get some A-listers (Grammy-winner) to play some tracks for a song of mine.
After the session I asked:
"With all your success, why would you take a session like this, and play with a 'nobody'?!... on a song that may never go anywhere?"
To shorten and paraphrase his long explanation, the gist of what he said was:
"I got into music cause I love it. Now that I'm on a lot of first-call lists, if I am able, I always take the opportunity -
you never know what magic might come out of the session.... and I love that.
Besides... if I DON'T answer the call, pretty soon I won't be getting ANY calls;
and I would miss out on doing what I have loved doing since I started."
Here's to your road... the one you choose to your best destination.
Cheers,
Peter R.
