Thinking Maybe Its Time To Hang It Up:

Hard drive failures suck. Backups are good to run regularly. Sometimes we forget that...some of us anyway...I’ve had it happen.
It could’ve been family photos, home videos...irreplaceable stuff...and I understand that music can fall into that category too...
If that, and the stress that you’ve mentioned in the past, in regards to your interactions with musical associate’s dramas, gets you down.....perhaps it’s time to assess the situation with care, given the health history that you’ve chosen to share here.
If the music speaks to you again...perhaps you will find a way.
Best of luck.
 
I have an 8 terabyte drive I keep EVERYTHING on -- ever since I had an iMac decide to NOT boot up anymore pout of the blue-- I never run without back up- I try to store very little on the hard drive itself all goes to the external drive-- I download and hjave to save LARGE architectural and construction drawings for work so-- I NEED the storage
 
I am selfish, I want all my brothers to keep checking in an posting there thoughts, Robert you can try and leave music behind, but you really can’t as all have posted before me you are a viable member here with every one on your side flank and in some cases in front of you, you may need a break , that will refresh you and get you on track, be well my brother. :) :cheers:
 
Mitch Pearrow SJMP said:
I am selfish, I want all my brothers to keep checking in an posting there thoughts, Robert you can try and leave music behind, but you really can’t as all have posted before me you are a viable member here with every one on your side flank and in some cases in front of you, you may need a break , that will refresh you and get you on track, be well my brother. :) :cheers:
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Good advice from brotha Mitch. Damn good advice.
 
I can see where you're coming from, but from a slightly different angle. It's usually people that can be what is most frustrating about work, hobbies, leisure time, or anything else under the sun. I would probably want to kill guys in a band that would prevent me from making a living, getting good paying gigs in another band, and other forms of income. Back when I was racing motorcycles, I was also working as a machinist full time, and playing 4-5 gigs a month in my band. For most of the nineties and early two thousands, I was lucky to get four hours of sleep a night. I changed jobs, moved, walked away from racing, and told the guys in the band that if they wanted to play out, they need to do some work for a change. When those changes took place, the band actually got better.

Even though my number one street bike is sitting on a lift in the garage, I plan on getting it roadworthy again. I hope to have more time for this in the spring and summer. If it actually gets on the pavement, I'm not sure. I don't let it bother me too much, even though it's what I would like. I also have a few old K-Model Harleys in the cellar next to my amps. Would love to see one running soon. Have had the stuff over twenty years now. And as for music, I can never get the guys to do anything, so I take a slacker's approach to that too these days. I have more fun playing in other peoples' bands. I'm working on a Hawkwind cover band with another person. So far we have me on guitar and vocals, another guy for sax and flute, a synthesizer/theremin player, and someone to do a proper light show. We're starting to hunt for bass/vocalist and drummer/vocalist soon. I wish I had your abilities at listening to a tune, and playing it. Covers have always been tough for me, and I preferred playing my own music as a result.

So, my point. Relax on the music and do some riding. You owe it to yourself. You even said that the people in the supergroup project may be perfect foils for you. If it can be steady paying work, without more restraints on you other than being a contributing artist, it may work out for you mentally and emotionally. With the additional freedom, it may also give you time into classic car work again. I've often thought of selling everything as far as my motorcycle and music stuff is concerned. Almost fifty years of collecting junk would probably have a good pay-out, but then I am sure I would eventually find myself miserable because there is no guitar to pick up and plonk around on. I think you're on the right road stepping back from a few projects, and giving yourself some time. I think that other band was toxic for you, and you need a clean break from them. The new guys seem to be the right direction for now, and with limiting how much you're doing might make it more rewarding in the long run.

We're not here for very long. Make the most of it, and have fun while you're doing it. I know as we get older, we can be a bit more fussy about who we spend our time with, because with each passing day that fuse gets shorter.
 
Robert Herndon said:
I don't know, Gahr, i've been playing non-stop for what seems like an eternity and it just isn't fun...that's the problem.

Im not sure the right people exist - near me anyways - to make it fun.

I've literally had to force myself to go and pick up a guitar here lately. I've never in my life felt that way before.

I walk into my music room, look around and think that i just wish i could sell all of it today...and i probably will once I've fulfilled all my obligations.
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You need a break from it. And then, suddenly, what is old is new again. Transition and change is a beautiful part of life. Do not approach it with a heavy heart. Step away for a while. Nothing is forever, including life.

Live every moment in the happiest place you can manage to be in at that particular time.

Love and respect always brother!
 
Robert Herndon said:
Saturday, i had a catastrophic failure of my PC which took out both internal hard drives. Everything is lost, except the bits i posted on Soundcloud. All the multitrack recordings, CD projects and song ideas - even projects i was working on at home for the studio for hire - vanished - and its critical now to finish them from scratch.

I felt like i probably should have been running an external hard drive, but you get busy, you put things off, its human nature i suppose.

At first, i was pissed, but then i began looking at this as a sign or an omen of sorts.

For a while, i been considering just walking away from music entirely, and this event is the push that i needed to do so.

Just a couple of weeks ago, my wife and i discussed me quitting and just drawing from my retirement early. The only thing that really kept me pushing along was the thought of someday completing my solo CD, but now i feel like the mountain is just too high.

I have committed myself to a project that will require the next few weeks of work (every night) to get it up off the ground, but i am going to tell the bandleader he needs to start auditioning replacement guitarists ASAP. I swear that if i had not given my word on this, i would walk away from it all tonight.

I've been feeling this way for a while actually, but, predictably, i just keep going, even if I'm not really getting anywhere, because that's what I've always done...and i guess im just tired of doing it.

TBTH, the only thing i really want to do now is just stay gone on the motorcycle. That has become my Redemption and my sense of freedom. Its infectious. Consuming and yet liberating. It's the only thing that hasn't drained energy from me.

I've enjoyed you folks a great deal and I apologize for being an opinonated poop shoot. I have made some great friends on here, but I have no doubt the music world will keep on turning.

Here's wishing you all the best...
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Robert I have some bad a$$ software that might recover your data if the drives still spin.

Let me give it a shot!
 
Robert Herndon said:
My exit certainly isn't going to be instant...Based on my outstanding contracts and handshake agreements, i figure 90 days at the earliest.
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Excellent, we have some time to sell you on "no exit policy" Lol.
Maybe it's not an exit you're looking for, just a re-direction- re-invention might bring you the joy back.

I have a feeling, at this time, your music brings me more happiness to listen to, then it brings you playing. Time to relevel the scale, as it were.

What ever the future brings, I sure am proud to call you "brother", and would be more than happy to help in any manner you see fit.

Peace
 
Thanks for all the wisdom and insight, guys...you are all greatly appreciated.

The 'SuperGroup' project is the biggest job looming up through the fog ahead.

We meet tomorrow for a half day rehearsal. This will be just me, bandleader/guitarist and female lead singer.

Saturday will be the first time we will all meet. That is 8 hours of rehearsal at a local studio followed by another 8 on Sunday. Now, its never just music, there's lots of B.S. and Beer/BBQ too, so its not drudgery.

The plan is gigging out following that...
 
Getting the bike dialed in for the next ride. Wanna have some fun??? Go to Google and type in a route from Verdemont California to Mars, California and select the hiking option. It's a 115 mile trek.

Mars is in the desert between Copper City and Fort Irwin....the Deep Space Center is located there, but there's also hundreds of miles of open desert to ride on.

Just a little ways South of Mars is a huge runway, made of blacktop, with the number '22' painted on it, standing there all by itself in the most desolate part of the area.

Not far from here is a collection of buildings and dishes known as Apollo. Check it out on Google maps.

I don't pay these places any real attention, but i do ride past them and nobody has ever paid any attention to me either...
 
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Man, I get busy for a week or 2 and our bro Robert has a major catastrophe plus a 180 in direction and all manner of reactions from a computer crash. Hard to even imagine with your talent and lifelong efforts on guitar that you won't feel a huge void if you decide to ship can any pursuits to express yourself on 4-12 stringed instruments.

Like was said before, hope you don't leave us here at TTR. Brother.
 
chilipeppermaniac said:
Man, I get busy for a week or 2 and our bro Robert has a major catastrophe plus a 180 in direction and all manner of reactions from a computer crash. Hard to even imagine with your talent and lifelong efforts on guitar that you won't feel a huge void if you decide to ship can any pursuits to express yourself on 4-12 stringed instruments.

Like was said before, hope you don't leave us here at TTR. Brother.
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I'll be around here and there....
 
Robert Herndon said:
Saturday, i had a catastrophic failure of my PC which took out both internal hard drives. Everything is lost, except the bits i posted on Soundcloud. All the multitrack recordings, CD projects and song ideas - even projects i was working on at home for the studio for hire - vanished - and its critical now to finish them from scratch.

I felt like i probably should have been running an external hard drive, but you get busy, you put things off, its human nature i suppose.

At first, i was pissed, but then i began looking at this as a sign or an omen of sorts.

For a while, i been considering just walking away from music entirely, and this event is the push that i needed to do so.

Just a couple of weeks ago, my wife and i discussed me quitting and just drawing from my retirement early. The only thing that really kept me pushing along was the thought of someday completing my solo CD, but now i feel like the mountain is just too high.

I have committed myself to a project that will require the next few weeks of work (every night) to get it up off the ground, but i am going to tell the bandleader he needs to start auditioning replacement guitarists ASAP. I swear that if i had not given my word on this, i would walk away from it all tonight.

I've been feeling this way for a while actually, but, predictably, i just keep going, even if I'm not really getting anywhere, because that's what I've always done...and i guess im just tired of doing it.

TBTH, the only thing i really want to do now is just stay gone on the motorcycle. That has become my Redemption and my sense of freedom. Its infectious. Consuming and yet liberating. It's the only thing that hasn't drained energy from me.

I've enjoyed you folks a great deal and I apologize for being an opinonated poop shoot. I have made some great friends on here, but I have no doubt the music world will keep on turning.

Here's wishing you all the best...
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The files are usually still on the disk although they might not be visible.
Unless you re-formatted the drives?
Plug the drives into another PC and use the good OS on that host PC to hopefully find and recover the files on the drives.

Buy a new hard drive.
Install OS and security onto that hard drive.
Now plug in the bad drive and open / copy the files with the good OS.
That's what I had to do and it worked OK.

Or
Reload the OS onto the drives in "repair mode" which does not erase the existing files or applications.

Drive system recovery:
sets the date on the drive back to before the problem occurred.

Last resort: send drives to data recovery more expensive but the files are still there.
 
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