{"id":179779,"date":"2026-02-04T20:08:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T20:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=179779"},"modified":"2026-02-04T20:08:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T20:08:02","slug":"a-mini-rant-about-musical-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2026\/02\/04\/a-mini-rant-about-musical-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"A mini rant about musical matters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>About 2 weeks ago I put an add on a music message board to try and expand the possibilities&#8217; of getting out and playing more  primarily but in the local area not miles away. It had 235 views and not one single response. I wonder if that&#8217;s a record? Wow.<\/strong><br><br>Yes I am in a Band\/trio and also a folk band but they are not exactly busy and whilst I am quite comfortable performing I am not primarily a solo performer and attending open mics where I don&#8217;t really know people is quite difficult for me.  I have met some lovely people but not anybody that seems to be up for a proper ongoing collaboration and working up numbers to take anything forward. These thing take a bit of time. I am not looking for sympathy <br>just wondering what I am doing wrong? At times I wonder if this is simply because of my age? (69) I have recorded a lot of stuff over the years that&#8217;s available online. Over the last 10 years over 6 or 7 online platforms material I  written and recorded has clocked up about 300,000 streams so I can&#8217;t be that bad, can I? <br><br>I play Piano, (also keys and synths) Violin Guitar and dabble in one or two other things. <br>I sing but I would not call myself a vocalist. <br><br>Sitting in a pub for maybe two hours on your own waiting to play a couple of numbers however good the other performers are is not the greatest thing for me as I am not good at small talk and never have been. I tend to get anxious doing social stuff on my own.  Its a problem because I worked with the same person for 17 years and played about 4000 gigs approx until they passed and then lockdown hit and after that end of story pretty much it seems. Now for various reasons I am not able to travel (finance being one of them) miles to meet up with people. If I had a more outgoing personality maybe I could bang on a few more doors, but I don&#8217;t. <br>Anyway here is a  song I recorded last week..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/soundcloud%253Atracks%253A2257187756&#038;color=%23400e0e&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\" title=\"Diana Stones Glasscage\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">Diana Stones Glasscage<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/good-sense-of-humour\" title=\"Good Sense Of Humour\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">Good Sense Of Humour<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"604\" height=\"805\" data-attachment-id=\"179801\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2026\/02\/04\/a-mini-rant-about-musical-matters\/circular-me\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/circular-me.jpg?fit=1536%2C2048&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1536,2048\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"circular me\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/circular-me.jpg?fit=604%2C805&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/circular-me-768x1024.jpg?resize=604%2C805&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-179801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/circular-me.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/circular-me.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/circular-me.jpg?resize=1152%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1152w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/circular-me.jpg?w=1536&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/circular-me.jpg?w=1208 1208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 2 weeks ago I put an add on a music message board to try and expand the possibilities&#8217; of getting out and playing more primarily but in the local area not miles away. It had 235 views and not one single response. I wonder if that&#8217;s a record? Wow. Yes I am in a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2026\/02\/04\/a-mini-rant-about-musical-matters\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A mini rant about musical matters<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-KLF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":166771,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2020\/08\/16\/what-next-heres-a-bit-of-a-catch-up-blog-post-for-august-2020\/","url_meta":{"origin":179779,"position":0},"title":"What next? 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