Yesterday was will filled such ferocious suckness that you would be left weeping and wailing were I to tell it ... unless you're on Facebook and then it would be one story like that among many and really all anyone wants to see are the cat videos anyway.
So let's condense that down to feeling pretty awful but Cat had troubles too and, all together now, the show must go on. Cat got her stuff working just in time for the show and things started to turn around.
Part of it was obviously that the medicine was starting to work but the rest of it was magic from the Circus.
Left to right: Medora Chevalier, Cat Boucher and Silas Scarborough, Voodoo Shilton, Sister Julie the Poet
(I'm not sure who the others are. No, Medora did not ask me to include her. I just thought it would be cute.)
The Crossroads represent one of the biggest ideas in music, that you can make a deal with the Devil to be a better musician but you will owe him your soul for eternity if you do it.
What the Crossroads are to Voodoo isn't something he says specifically but maybe we can get some idea from his "Crossroads" song. It's dedicated to John McLaughlin, Paco de Lucia, and Al DiMeola and their recordings together. We know de Lucia is one of Voodoo's idols and deservedly as those three are acknowledged the Ultimate Wizards of Master Guitarists.
Sister Julie thought I was showing off in mentioning the names of these guitarists in chat but that really wasn't true at all. I'm not getting defensive, it's just something to know that those three were huge within a subset of the music audience. Within it they were gods but outside of it they weren't known too much. Voodoo isn't the only one who has worshipped them for quite some time.
So what is Voodoo's deal with the devil. He didn't choose to cover a song the three guitarists had recorded but rather he recorded in his interpretation of the style of three guitarists. The hip New York reaction is, oh, it's derivative crap but that makes no sense to me as everything is derivative of something else or nothing would ever evolve. What I heard was faithful to a style but I didn't hear anything imitative so this doesn't look like a deal with the Devil.
(Ed: you're not going to tell us about his deal with the Devil, are you?)
Nope. I have no idea of any deal or if he ever even made one. The point is not about any deal Voodoo has made but rather it's about deals you have made.
While cat videos are the acknowledged Worst Thing on the Internet, the next after that is white guys in chairs playing guitars ... but ... this is a special circumstance. Imagine the video if Voodoo were to record one in which he is playing up to three guitar parts simultaneously. You would be able to see his fingers for whichever part he plays just now but there would also be his 'ghost fingers' playing the parts he has already got going in the looper. I think that would be pretty cool and highly mystical to watch.
Again it's a privilege to hear Voodoo play as it's inspirational seeing his motivation to push beyond his own limits. Van Gogh said, "I'm always doing things I don't know how to do so I can learn how to do them."
You can find more on Voodoo Shilton's Facebook page and you can find more about the Circus on the Cat's Art MusikCircus page.
So let's condense that down to feeling pretty awful but Cat had troubles too and, all together now, the show must go on. Cat got her stuff working just in time for the show and things started to turn around.
Part of it was obviously that the medicine was starting to work but the rest of it was magic from the Circus.
Left to right: Medora Chevalier, Cat Boucher and Silas Scarborough, Voodoo Shilton, Sister Julie the Poet
(I'm not sure who the others are. No, Medora did not ask me to include her. I just thought it would be cute.)
The Crossroads represent one of the biggest ideas in music, that you can make a deal with the Devil to be a better musician but you will owe him your soul for eternity if you do it.
What the Crossroads are to Voodoo isn't something he says specifically but maybe we can get some idea from his "Crossroads" song. It's dedicated to John McLaughlin, Paco de Lucia, and Al DiMeola and their recordings together. We know de Lucia is one of Voodoo's idols and deservedly as those three are acknowledged the Ultimate Wizards of Master Guitarists.
Sister Julie thought I was showing off in mentioning the names of these guitarists in chat but that really wasn't true at all. I'm not getting defensive, it's just something to know that those three were huge within a subset of the music audience. Within it they were gods but outside of it they weren't known too much. Voodoo isn't the only one who has worshipped them for quite some time.
So what is Voodoo's deal with the devil. He didn't choose to cover a song the three guitarists had recorded but rather he recorded in his interpretation of the style of three guitarists. The hip New York reaction is, oh, it's derivative crap but that makes no sense to me as everything is derivative of something else or nothing would ever evolve. What I heard was faithful to a style but I didn't hear anything imitative so this doesn't look like a deal with the Devil.
(Ed: you're not going to tell us about his deal with the Devil, are you?)
Nope. I have no idea of any deal or if he ever even made one. The point is not about any deal Voodoo has made but rather it's about deals you have made.
While cat videos are the acknowledged Worst Thing on the Internet, the next after that is white guys in chairs playing guitars ... but ... this is a special circumstance. Imagine the video if Voodoo were to record one in which he is playing up to three guitar parts simultaneously. You would be able to see his fingers for whichever part he plays just now but there would also be his 'ghost fingers' playing the parts he has already got going in the looper. I think that would be pretty cool and highly mystical to watch.
Again it's a privilege to hear Voodoo play as it's inspirational seeing his motivation to push beyond his own limits. Van Gogh said, "I'm always doing things I don't know how to do so I can learn how to do them."
You can find more on Voodoo Shilton's Facebook page and you can find more about the Circus on the Cat's Art MusikCircus page.
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