"Wind on the Waves" - Silas Scarborough (video)

Filmed on Ocean Drive in Newport, Rhode Island, in approximately 2004.  This is another which seems to have evaporated and I don't play it precisely this way anymore but I hardly ever play something the same way twice; if I do it was probably an accident (larfs).

My future would lie East across the ocean but there was no way I could know that at the time ... or ... maybe I did and that's why I looked.  This one is surely about freedom and whatever other meaning you may take from it is yours.  I can't promise it will reveal your future ... but maybe it will.  Everything is in the space between things and nothing is what it seems.

Note:  blog link above

(Ed:  are you going to lighten on this Zen crapola?)

Um, prob'ly not, Dagwood (larfs some more).


As to why I don't play like this now ... well ... I already did.  Everything is toward what I play when I get good enough to do it ... and it comes to me with the wind on the waves.  Whatever it may bring to you is something else and that's what I love about music:  it doesn't matter what I see but rather whatever you may see.


No, you're not hallucinating as Silas is playing a twelve-string and it was a Yamaha my ol' Dad bought me during some really desperate times.  I have since passed it down to my nephew who I hope understands the love in it but that's not for me to tell, it's for him to feel for himself.

Thank you, ol' Dad, for doing that as I don't think I ever said he was the only one I ever trusted to do that.  I am not at all overlooking how the Mystery Lady put up with me spending enormous amounts of money on music but it's not exactly the same to buy something and give it away with no idea of what may come of it.  I don't take anything at all from the Mystery Lady who contributed vastly in her own way.


I would have kept the guitar but my left shoulder is too busted to reach around the wider body of an acoustic guitar without bringing more pain than my wimpy ass can handle.  It's conceivable the shoulder replacement surgery some years later might have addressed that ... but ... Liberty Mutual cut off my medical insurance two weeks after the surgery and the year's worth of therapy which should have come did not.

Everything blows over the waves in one way or another.  Some of it is beautiful and some of it sucks gigantic jagged boulders but always something comes.