What's your craziest, loftiest musical goal?

[HolmfirthNJ]

And then Poison Ivy Rorschach emerged from her more-than-a-decade retirement, just to invite me to sit with her on her back porch, for us to play some Howlin’ Wolf songs together (which was nice)

 

[scottser]

Take a junk car with the engine and fuel tank taken out. Stick it in a field with a sound system pumping out some loud, fat techno and cool pyrotechnics then go at the car with jack hammers and power tools along to the beat.

 

[teletail]

To play like Jimi Hendrix.

You want to play left handed???

 

[JPKmusicman]

You want to play left handed???

Oh geez, that too! AAAAAHHHHH!

 

[HootOwlDude]

To have a dope recording setup at my house and to be able to really do not much of anything else but make songs.

 

[MisterZ]

To be a member of a jam/free jazz group that get together and play just for cathartic enjoyment.

You mean like these guys?

 

[Tricone]

You mean like these guys?

No. My expectations aren't that crazy or lofty. More humanly possible like this.

 

[GRAVITY-LHP]

Getting over my stage fright!!!

Nothing wrong with the truth!

 

[TF from MN]

To form a band with comfortably accomplished musicians who all like each other, enjoy playing with each other, have similar tastes and goals, are all invested in making the band a success, and don't have drug/alcohol/marital/psychological problems. I was in a group like that 20-odd years ago and I don't think I appreciated what a unicorn it was.

Good luck with that!

In retrospect, I think I was the problem in some of the bands I was in, back in the day.

 

[hotraman]

Getting better at playing my pedal steel. I have a long ways to go. Just need to get out there and look for opportunities to play.

 

[thescarecrow]

Well, I started back playing guitar about 8 months ago, and having a ball.
But, I've been thinking I might want to sing a little. I mean, I'm not a singer, but I think I can stay in tune, as long as I stay in my range. When I tell myself "you can't sing", I think about Neil Young, Bob Dylan, and Gram Parsons. It didn't stop them. Plus, I'm not getting any younger!
Oh, and I really like those guys!

 

[tfarny]

As a musicianship goal, I guess it's just to be a real tasty lead player, play less but every note be just right. I think of the electric guitars on Lucinda Williams' first three "serious" albums as like a holy grail. Nothing really complicated on there but dang if every note isn't right in just every way.
I'd like to really do better on slide and in open tunings, too. I come and go with that.

 

[WingedWords]

A long term goal since I've been playing bass is to play Bach's 6 Suites for cello on electric bass. I'm doing OK, with the first and second suites well under my fingers and various movements from the 3rd, 4th and 5th suites under control. But progress has been slow over the past few years and I'm afraid some are beyond me. Some of my favourite music there though, and a lot of it sits very well on bass.

 

[cyclopean]

Terry Pratchett fan?

My loftiest musical goal? To sing with the Metropolitan Opera Chorus. Dream gig, that would be. Never gonna happen, though. I know some people who have done it and I just don't have the stamina.

Yes, but i got it from Conan, who may have gotten it from Ghengis Khan.

 

[MisterZ]

A long term goal since I've been playing bass is to play Bach's 6 Suites for cello on electric bass. I'm doing OK, with the first and second suites well under my fingers and various movements from the 3rd, 4th and 5th suites under control. But progress has been slow over the past few years and I'm afraid some are beyond me. Some of my favourite music there though, and a lot of it sits very well on bass.

Suite # 6 is a beast. I tried it on guitar after hearing Julian Bream's (I think) version and was roundly defeated. #3 is fun, though.

 

[MisterZ]

Yes, but i got it from Conan, who may have gotten it from Ghengis Khan.

One of the barbarians used that line in a scene in (I think) The Light Fantastic, while doing a boast-off with Cohen. Cohen's reply was along the lines of "The greatest thing in life is soft toilet paper."

 

[Pops_Caster]

To actually play more than I read the forums.

 

[Toto'sDad]

To play Lady of Spain on the electric accordion with seven Mariachi's playing electric five string banjos accompanying me at the Hollywood bowl to a sellout crowd.

The event would be called:

Seven Spanish Angelos, take another accordion player home.

 

[Mad Max]

There's an open mic night in the little town a few miles from my house. I would like to work up the courage/skill to play there as part of a band or to play acoustic and sing. Maybe someday...

 

[Old Verle Miller]

Get back with my former musical partner and have my favorite local band back us up in front of a large audience again. (Think Bellamy Brothers meets Jerry Jeff Walker with Brad Paisley.)