What Really Matters to a Musician!

   I don't remember what day it was.....I do remember that I was all alone late one evening at home with my digital recording studio and headphones resting on my shoulders,  starring at my guitar to the side not knowing what it wants or what I want.   The thing is that I never really knew what I had wanted in life with so many things going down the wrong path and feeling so out of place.   I knew that night after having... well lets say more than a couple of drinks,  that things had to change.   With the frost making the outside walls talk and the snow falling like a million balls of cotton creating a white blanket on the ground,  I started recording music that not only felt right to me but also had meaning in a sense that could relate to a lot of individuals.   Like any young musician I had big dreams,  the kind that you try to envision and hope one day will come true.   But let's face it with those dreams always come doubts and  sometimes even regrets .   The reality is that this dream of mine seemed impossible.  
    It was 2003,  I graduated from Anne Stevenson Secondary when an opportunity arose for me to go back to my home country Switzerland and play a few gigs with my fathers old band.   At the time my brother, father and I had been playing the odd oldies at home from bands like Deep Purple, Creedance Clearwater  Revival,  Status Quo and such.   When I arrived in Switzerland,  for one it was awesome to be back home after 10 years but to be there for gigs was just sureal.   Of course I enjoy playing songs for people who appreciate it,   but it's a million other crazy things that make us who we are and what it means to be a musician.   It's not the after parties, or the number of albums sold, but rather it's knowing who appreciates you for who you are and what you have composed for them to relate to.   When I realized this it really gave me drive to compose more songs than I could possibly record.   So perhaps most important of all is YOU, the listener, that makes it all matter.  I look forward to composing many more sometimes hard, sometimes frustrating, catchy groovy songs along the way and hope that you are part of that journey.  If you'd like to hear some of these songs that were part of this story then just click here to listen to my album "Devil's Eyes"  Get a couple of FREE DOWNLOADS here: www.krispinstuder.com
Thank you for being a listener and for making it all matter.

Cheers Krispin