Should I join?

[onoffon]

Quote:Quote:I actually feel that some of my best work has come from the need to write for a specific purpose, emotion, or 'corporate messaging'; Whether the limitations are self- or business-imposed, sometimes having a box to work within can focus one's music to a better degree than a blank canvas.I agree and relate to that 100%. By far and away, my best music has been as a result of having to focus on something specific, a mood, a style, whatever.I understand both of your points but 'one man's ceiling is another man's floor'.The only limitations I want on my music are of the self-imposed kind Andreh mentions. If I choose to set the parameters of a song I write, then they are my own artistic choices. I will not write a song to purposely sound like the Red Hot Chili Peppers - although one of our songs in particular has been compared to them by a few reviewers. But then, another of our songs gets compared to Pat Travers. Another - King Crimson... etc.We do what we do and how we're perceived is left entirely up to the listener.Although, I will also say, one of the coolest musical experiences I ever had was doing the one movie soundtrack I was lucky enough to work on. To sit down with the director and view dailys and rough cuts and actually shape music to fit the visual images and communicate specific moods and feelings was incredibly fulfilling.But, I was fortunate to be in a situation where my artistic opinion was accepted on an equal level as the director I was working with - not as a hired gun to be dictated to.It was a dream gig...