Creativity. Talent. 10,000 hours. Individually, not nearly as powerful as when combined. Each alone, appreciable, but useless without action. In a society of mass manufacture, consumption and disposal its unique efforts and implementations I appreciate the most. Alexa, Google, Sonos all serve their limited purpose. None compare in aesthetics and use of this beauty. Rare…
I used to dread when we started recording. It’d take me take after take after take after take to get something half assed worth listening to. Today, one take did the trick. Rare day.
I have always been a fan of the Doors and the iconic Jim Morrison. Sometime circa 1990 in Kin Town (Kinville), Okinawa while in what is best described as a non-sober state, I watched a laser disc music video of Danzig’s “Mother”. In awe I kept vacillating in thought that Jim was still alive! and…
Twenty-ish years I threw away all my vinyl dating back to the ’80s because of MP3s, Naptser and a Rio Music Player. Then came iTunes, Google, Amazon, Spotify, etc, ruining music ownership with their closed walled garden DRM architecture. A few years back I started growing the collection again. Yard sale, estates, flea markets and…
I’m no Israel Kamakawiwoʻole, but I did have the pleasure to see him perform before he passed.
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