INDUSTRY
FEELING THE RHYTHM
You’re Never Too Old
You’ve heard the saying about dancing to the beat of your own drum? This month, STEVE CARTER has been taking it literally…
O
ver the Easter break
talked into playing. I proved to myself that if
them to try different things out, until they
a young lad paid
you are fortunate to be gifted with a talent, it
asked me for my thoughts. By taking what
me a compliment
doesn’t leave you.
they had already done, I suggested to them
(yes it happens
I was also able to utilise a couple of
a slight tweak. Immediately the singer
occasionally)
other life skills! During one of the practice
beamed, and I knew that tiny bit of input
regarding a recent
sessions, the lads were building a song and
had the desired effect.
LinkedIn post I’d written. It was about me
had reached the bridge. They were trying
being asked to sit in and play the drums at
different things but not happy with what
IN THE RHYTHM
a couple of gigs with a band many years my
they were producing. It would have been
On the night of the gig, the youngest
junior, despite not having played myself for
easy for me to jump in and say what was
band member, a phenomenal 16-year
28 years.
needed, but I didn’t. Instead, I waited for
old guitarist, was visibly quite nervous and told me as much. I remember being
FACING FEARS
that age at my first gig and the nerves I
I was told that what I had done to help them
had. I was able to tell him that nobody
was brilliant and I felt very humbled by the comment. It made me reflect because originally, I had tried to come up with excuses why I shouldn’t play; too old, too rusty etc. I now know that the real reason was fear, a fear that I wouldn’t be able to replicate what I could do nearly three decades ago. For various reasons I am so glad that I was
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I had tried to come up with excuses why I shouldn’t play; too old, too rusty etc
out there is here to judge you, they want you to do well. I also told him that the stage lighting will block the audience out and that when it comes to the last song of the night, he wouldn’t want it to end; I was right, he didn’t. We all have something that we are good at and whatever it is, it will always be of benefit to somebody.