{"id":226,"date":"2014-10-03T10:28:44","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T16:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/?p=226"},"modified":"2014-10-03T10:28:44","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T16:28:44","slug":"back-as-a-solo-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/back-as-a-solo-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Back as a solo act&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So my time with Nudge has come to an end. I won&#8217;t go into gory details publicly of my displeasure with how the situation was handled, but it basically came down to scheduling issues that I created by demanding that my weekends with my kids are free. Priorities, you know? I do wish them well&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>The good thing is it frees me up for finally having more ownership in my musical endeavors. Whether that&#8217;s a new power trio with me back on bass with my buddies from The Extractors Ed and Lee, a bunch of solo acoustic gigs, an acoustic duo of some sort, or finally working on my album, it&#8217;s a brave new world, and this time, it&#8217;s going to be MINE.<\/p>\n<p>I have to start making shit instead of just talking about it or regurgitating it. Talking about it makes you an entertainer, agent or a critic. Making it makes you an artist. And I&#8217;m tired of not being an artist. (Though I won&#8217;t stop being an entertainer, too, because that pays&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s all for now.<br \/>\nTMS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So my time with Nudge has come to an end. I won&#8217;t go into gory details publicly of my displeasure with how the situation was handled, but it basically came down to scheduling issues that I created by demanding that my weekends with my kids are free. Priorities, you know? I do wish them well&#8230; The good thing is it frees me up for finally having more ownership in my musical endeavors. Whether that&#8217;s a new power trio with me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/back-as-a-solo-act\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,8,5],"tags":[10,38,39,36,37,17],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bands","category-inspiration","category-music","tag-album-songwriting-recording","tag-band","tag-cover-band","tag-nudge","tag-nudgeatx","tag-solo-acoustic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}