In these oh so modern times, the only people who still say 'groovy' are the ones who were in reform school or prison when the word was actually fashionable ... but ... for someone to get the groove in music is at least as cool as it ever was. To get the groove, you need a few chords and / or a little bass riff mixed with just the right percussion. It's very simple but much harder than it seems.
Untolerable Bohemian got his groove going from the first tune and he went maybe forty minutes without saying much of anything. He would get into his groove and his guitar would go exploring. That would be a trip that maybe goes ten minutes. After he came out of that one, he would get a different groove going and go on out there again. (He can get them going quickly as he must pre-record them but it's definitely him playing them.)
In what I've written here I've been highly encouraging of Bo's instrumental work and I don't want to change anything I've said but I've been learning from friends lately more about why people do not like instrumental music and then I think, hmmm, is my encouragement actually useful to him, maybe I try to promote a direction that really would not be so good for him.
Bo has not at all stopped singing. He likes doing covers in his own quite twisted way. But then I think, hmmm, how about bringing that vocal into the original stuff he is doing and then what happens?
I have no idea if Bo has any interest at all in what I write but, what the hell, if anything plants a seed and it's positive then it's probably not a problem.
Lefty Unplugged did not hear Bo when he was playing in the first part of his set with his instrumental groovulousness but, what do you know, lefty came out to start with a new song and it went into a very cool groove of his own. He was sounding a bit like DD when he said he wrote the song forty minutes before the show. (DD writes songs faster than most people eat potato chips. She is absolutely driven!) Lefty said the song wasn't quite finished but he wanted it to have its debut and the first real play at Cat's Art MusikCircus.
It was grand!
Lefty gave us a new side last night as most of his songs have extraordinarily good lyrics because the man is real poet, he's not just hacking words together because they rhyme. But that isn't what he was doing in "Love Goes Running on Home" as there was a lot of repetition ... but no more than necessary to get the groove happening and to tell you the story. It was a very good story and he carried everyone away with it.
After the song, he said he was still thinking about whether to keep it but the vote from the audience was unanimous: YES!
In other news, there were three lemur babies and one kitten born yesterday at the MusikCircus. The fecundity of Cat's Critter Farm is growing quite quickly. We started with a couple of lemurs some weeks ago. We now have two lemur plantations with maybe fifteen lemurs between them. The kitten farm is, where else, the bedroom and I really don't know how many there are. The number of them is my fault as Cat has to buy a kitten whenever she can't find me.
Untolerable Bohemian got his groove going from the first tune and he went maybe forty minutes without saying much of anything. He would get into his groove and his guitar would go exploring. That would be a trip that maybe goes ten minutes. After he came out of that one, he would get a different groove going and go on out there again. (He can get them going quickly as he must pre-record them but it's definitely him playing them.)
In what I've written here I've been highly encouraging of Bo's instrumental work and I don't want to change anything I've said but I've been learning from friends lately more about why people do not like instrumental music and then I think, hmmm, is my encouragement actually useful to him, maybe I try to promote a direction that really would not be so good for him.
Bo has not at all stopped singing. He likes doing covers in his own quite twisted way. But then I think, hmmm, how about bringing that vocal into the original stuff he is doing and then what happens?
I have no idea if Bo has any interest at all in what I write but, what the hell, if anything plants a seed and it's positive then it's probably not a problem.
Lefty Unplugged did not hear Bo when he was playing in the first part of his set with his instrumental groovulousness but, what do you know, lefty came out to start with a new song and it went into a very cool groove of his own. He was sounding a bit like DD when he said he wrote the song forty minutes before the show. (DD writes songs faster than most people eat potato chips. She is absolutely driven!) Lefty said the song wasn't quite finished but he wanted it to have its debut and the first real play at Cat's Art MusikCircus.
It was grand!
Lefty gave us a new side last night as most of his songs have extraordinarily good lyrics because the man is real poet, he's not just hacking words together because they rhyme. But that isn't what he was doing in "Love Goes Running on Home" as there was a lot of repetition ... but no more than necessary to get the groove happening and to tell you the story. It was a very good story and he carried everyone away with it.
After the song, he said he was still thinking about whether to keep it but the vote from the audience was unanimous: YES!
In other news, there were three lemur babies and one kitten born yesterday at the MusikCircus. The fecundity of Cat's Critter Farm is growing quite quickly. We started with a couple of lemurs some weeks ago. We now have two lemur plantations with maybe fifteen lemurs between them. The kitten farm is, where else, the bedroom and I really don't know how many there are. The number of them is my fault as Cat has to buy a kitten whenever she can't find me.
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