A fabulous time was certainly had at the first "Lisa Mychols and Friends" hang-out on Blab last night. My co-host Angela Estes was there bringing her lovely voice to the many songs we weren't quite prepared to play!

The amazing Tom Richards of The Waking Hours joined in and shared the good news with us about getting his masters back from a label his band used to be signed with. How cool of that label for going out of their way to do something like that for an artist!

Got me thinking.

How wonderful it is to be in control of our own art again! If it's in your hands, you can work it the way only you know how it should be worked. No one else knows your art better than you! Although, we CAN support each other. In fact, I believe we achieve a lot more that way!

But there was a time...

For the past 20 years or so of putting out Lisa Mychols music,  there was never a clear vision of how to work it or what to expect back from it. I'd just make the art and give it away. I might as well have just called it my freakin' hobby. No wonder I was never truly fulfilled! I was working in jobs I hated just to earn the money to put music out. I wanted to make people happy. I wanted to inspire as many people as I could. That was it. I have no idea where all the money from sales ever went, to be quite honest.

But now I feel this celebration of inspiration from Tom's great share of the evening, to immediately reclaim control over MY own art and the future of it!

I LOVE creating and I want to continue doing it! For me, it's the art form of communication, connection with others, aligning with purpose, expanding, and moving into something extremely wonderful with as many people willing to come along!


Elsie Mychols
Fabulous Playground