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------------------------------------------------------------- Rebirth Brass Band The horns made a sweet but mournful sound as they stepped down the path to the cemetary, the snares keeping a dirge cadence. Later, after words had been spoken at the grave, they marched away, but now it was like a miracle, a virgin birth, a resurrection, as the sound opened up like a car ramping onto a freeway, a bird released from a cage, a child dancing in the waves. Joy filled the air, and doomsday became rapture- a choice made to celebrate the return of the soul to its maker. ================================================ Thu, 07 Jan 1999 06:48:19 CST (15 lines) An addiction I have no desire to kick is to the sounds which capture the shape of the soul, the pulse of emotions, the pain of the lonely, the joy of together take not this wonderment from me- I would be less and there's no harm to my being in its sound no, it only shores it up, repairs jagged cracks which day to day try to break me down a soft cool forest or a bright crystal tower heightened by sharing, whether we just listen, or in ecstasy create, to join another there in its marvelous shadow and view it together- is richness beyond measure *************************************************** Wed, 24 Mar 1999 07:19:24 CST (8 lines) 'Are you experienced?' Jimi asked and proceeded to show us that we weren't, but then made us so- bending our thinking with the bending of his guitar strings, taking us with him on explorations of his altered mind, a seduction of the senses, that takes us to other spheres- unimagined yet somehow familiar places, places from deep in our psyche pulled gently or kicking and screaming to the surface, and then we are sent 'drifting on a sea of forgotten teardrops'and he sank beneath his wisdom like a [Rolling]stone, for it was but a thin
-photo stolen from www.jimi-hendrix.com, copyright 1997 Richard Peters, Authentic Hendrix, LLC ------------------------------------------------------- Bluegrass a taste of something lost something that can seem to be regained only to be proven evanescent (just grist for the word-of-the-day!)- the interplay of tradition, a knowledge of which allows for a bit of innovation- play in the structure, as long as you don't go too far, and your instrument musty be Old and in the Way best if you came down from the holler not out of the alley they look askance at you if you talk fast, until they hear you play then maybe you can gain acceptance even if you come from Boulder instead of Boone ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Wed, 21 Oct 1998 13:07:38 CDT (8 lines) Taj Mahal is great. He has covered a wide variety of roots styles, and sounds good and natural doing any of them, from Jamaican to blues to country and beyond (rap?). I saw him at the Philadelphia Folk Festival a few years ago, and his stage presence is tremendous, too. If I had a criticism (which can also be seen as a positive thing!), it might be that he has trouble expressing PAIN. He seems to transcend it with his happiness. This is what makes him unusual, though, so it cuts both ways.
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