i've been playing music as long as i've been skating, and if i had to choose between the two, i would have to choose skating. I'm a much better musician than I am a skater (music was always kind of natural for me, skating took a lot of hard work), but I still love skating much more. I spent the last four years playing music and trying to put skating on the back burner, and since I quit my band i feel like a great weight has been lifted off of me. All i need to do is some tricks on my skateboard, i don't need to worry about 4 other people, their attitudes, creative differences, politics, etc. Being in a band ruined other bands for me too. You realize that most people that play music are complete douche bags. Its been a few years since I've heard a new band I actually liked, and about 8 months since I've been to a show, and even then it was only because I was working the door. I've never been so uniterested in music in my entire life.