Working Like a Rockstar?
I have always loved live music, the intimacy of small clubs, the energy of the crowd, and the organ rattling volume that I can’t reproduce no matter how loud I sing in the car. I have some friends that were in one of those greatest bands that never was. I remember watching their band Vaux building the crowd into a frenzy during an encore performance of their anthematic song “Set it to Blow” thinking that being a rockstar is the greatest job ever. For two hours you take the stage to do what you love, to share what you have created, to create a relationship with those watching that is unique and intimate. The performance is emotional and physical, and for any self respecting rockstar it demands complete presence, a state of being that few of us get to work in.
Is it possible to sit at a computer 10-15 hours a days and work like a rockstar?
I contend that it is not, and believe me I try. I have a genuine passion and excitement for the work I am doing, but that rockstar intensity is hard to muster for the type of work I do and in the medium in which so many of us work.
