I relate to all that is said. My problem is my music is so @#$%^ing weird people look at me x eyed in the bands that ive been in( most bands I tried to fit in were conventional jazz/pop/rock-that wanted me to play exactly note for note from a score, a little entrapping after a while). Drum machines and computers are my new best friends, gifts from the creator; I still play with people but no longer rely on them for my sound, I do that myself; this is what makes technology so cool. One of the toys I like is the zoom 123 a cheap little drum machine that plays bass/drums it is my new best friend, besides the cat who is the harshest critique.