Musicians or Athletes?
 

In my opinion, Musicians are better because they last longer.

An athlete's life span goes like this:
*Starts playing at the age of 4
*Below 13 - develops as an athlete
*Teens and 20's - at their prime
*30's - at their peak
*40's-retiring
*40's and beyond - either be a coach or work in the executive department of a team.

For a musician, it doesn't matter what age he starts. He can still play until his 70's and beyond.

Pls share your opinions.

Well for musicians it goes
Age 12 (or start of puberty) - starts playing
Age 15 - starts first ****ty band
Age 19 - starts second band that's somewhat bearable
Age 26 - hits the big time with second group
Age 27 - dies of a heroin overdose

Were you not into Fecal Matter

Well why can't a musician be an athlete and have the qualities of both? Does that work? (Marching band and DCI are DEFINITELY sports!)

I'm confused, why do we have to choose between the 2?

I don't want to see someone like Mick Jagger playing for my rugby team any more than a I want to hear a Usain Bolt trible jazz funk album.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=M9UHcRrCWlI

:cool:

I think this is just distracting us from the real question of our time...

I see your Andy Cole & raise you...

I'm an athlete, not professional, but I've won trophies at sanctioned events in Disc Golf. I'm knocking on the door of turning 50, yet I still churn out some halfway decent tunes (according to some people). My abilities are fading though, and that's kind of sad.

I need a nap.

I mean they're 2 very different things... but personally musicians are far more interesting to me.

I disagree. Anybody who has marched drum corps or marching band should be considered both musician & athlete.

Or played a 5 hour gig on a hot summer night.

God yes. Sweat dripping off, clothes sticking to you because of the humidity, B.O. keeping the skeeters away...

Ya, our gigs back in the day were totally exhausting. Soaking wet by the end of them.

I gotta admit, it's pretty great.

Oh it is. I think it's sort of the attraction of being a musician.

Any pitcher who knows how to throw a fastball so it makes that perfect *smack* right in the catcher's mitt should be considered a musician.

I use to catch this guy for fun. Scary as sh*t.

Steve Bedrosian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

DUDE. You caught a Cy Young winner!?! With a career 3.38 ERA!?! Share.

He went to HS with my older sister and use to hang around all the time. Caught him a few times in our driveway. Luckily he was really accurate.

When he got signed to the Braves in 81 my band played his going away party. We got blasted all night together.

Had a very decent career. Cy Young award, pitched in an All Star game, and won a WS ring.

"Very decent"!?! Cy Young-winning relievers come along once a decade at most.
Catcher is my #1 position. I'm turning green with envy right now.

(I've played pick-up hockey with Ron Ellis--beat that!) ;)

I feel like mentioning marching band as a sport is sure to stir up something in later posts on this thread... lol

Eh I don't see why?

FF to 1:00

Chula I see your college marching band and raise you one World Class DCI Drum Corps:


If you don't call that being an athlete, what is?

Both are entertaining, and sometimes exciting.

Strange things to compare. Musicians generally dont have to deal with the physical constraints that an athlete does. A athletes career is a shorter and more demanding one.

Anyone remembers Deion Sanders? i had his sneakers.

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anyway, i chose musicians cause i prefer music over sports but i respect how much athletes train to reach a professional LvL. You don't need to be in shape to be a musician but to be even be a bench warmer in a professional sport you have to be in top shape. the path of an athlete is more disciplined and arduous than a musicians.

Maybe with your garden variety garage band musician, but not so much with a classically trained musician.

How would you know?

Entertainment-wise: musicians
Sexually speaking: athletes

... We all have our roles :)

I also support musicians. it's of course they last long and serve for long time.

Experience.

Oranges > Apples

Hey, turns out that wasn't so hard after all.

Oranges < Granny Smith Apples

Satsumas > Granny Smith Apples

Satsuma < Tohoku

Have you had those huge oranges with belly buttons, though?

I think they call those "bears".