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Post by whitefang on Dec 22, 2020 11:25:59 GMT -5
Imagine a band( if not one already working) like this--- All you'd need is a robot that sings and it's showtime!  Whitefang |
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Post by jbone on Dec 22, 2020 13:06:15 GMT -5
Yeah, that's why Jo and I do what we do. Absent electricity we can still move peoples' hearts.
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Post by whitefang on Dec 23, 2020 10:30:03 GMT -5
Sadly too, we might wind up with an entire generation or two that think acoustic/analog instruments don't sound like the "real things".  Whitefang |
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Post by jbone on Dec 23, 2020 11:57:14 GMT -5
Here's the thing though. You're sitting in a storefront and playing something with guitar and harp, no frills. A family walks by and stops, Dad gives the kids a buck to give the street players, the kids are thrilled to hear that amazing music and be a small part of a "professional's" day. Maybe they ask for an instrument next birthday. Maybe they look up some real live music in youtube. Maybe those kids keep an ear cocked for this sort of things from then on. And maybe they find their way to being a bard or busker, touching people on street corners and in small clubs and cafes.
We've had everyone from toddlers through teens to octogenarians drop a buck on us. If we can pass on the torch to a few youngin's, that's really the goal.
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Post by whitefang on Dec 24, 2020 10:50:31 GMT -5
We can only hope. But it don't seem all that long ago that a nephew of mine(now in his 40's) claimed his main goal in life was to be a DJ. And not the guy who spins records or plays CDs at a wedding, but the guy "scratching" behind some guy rapping unintelligible poetry. And the closest many of the kids in this family came to playing anything close to a musical instrument was when they played "Guitar Hero". But then, another nephew's wife just acquired a guitar(I haven't seen it yet. ) in hopes of leaning enough chords to be able to sit around a campfire on the property they just got recently up North. For Christmas, I got her a copy of the old MEL BAY chord book, which still gets published but hasn't changed since it first came out in 1959 I think.  Hell, I bought MY first copy back when I was 14( I'll be 70 next year, so you do the math!) And replaced it about 20 or so years ago. And it's the SAME BOOK, with all the old diagrams and photos. Cripes, that kid playing that D'Angelico guitar in those photos, IF still alive has GOT to be in his 80's by now! Whitefang |
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Post by jbone on Dec 24, 2020 13:50:32 GMT -5
That's interesting because Jo has a D'Angelico- much newer no doubt- which she got in the spring!
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Post by whitefang on Dec 25, 2020 10:48:14 GMT -5
Always kinda liked those.
Whitefang
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Post by jbone on Dec 29, 2020 10:30:00 GMT -5
Looking at the past couple of months here, all hope is definitely not lost even in this age of the looming Skynet/Matrix possible future and the flood of quasi/sort of gimme dat bass crap "music". We've been giving out live music. Something this simple may make enough difference.
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Post by whitefang on Dec 29, 2020 13:24:29 GMT -5
Well, this past Christmas I learned a 10 year old grandnephew took an interest in learning the French horn. Even for the Holiday he learned a few bars of "O Come Emmanuel". Of course, not THIS good, but it IS a start!  One of my favorites from my all time favorite Christmas music album. Since it came out in '57(when I was 6). Whitefang |
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Post by jbone on Dec 29, 2020 13:59:05 GMT -5
Music in schools being taken away was the first sign we were in decline. Sports being heavily funded instead because it generated more cash. But music teaches a lot of important qualities like math and theory. Not to mention teamwork and having a thick skin sometimes.
It's a real shame we can't depend on our education system to provide real arts and music but it points out that SOMEone has to do it.
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Post by whitefang on Dec 30, 2020 11:18:16 GMT -5
I remember music class in grade school( 'bout '57 or so) taught by Mrs. Snyder. I didn't learn much about music per se, but still remember the little tricks for remembering the keys of the lines of the music stave ( Every Good Boy Does Fine) and the spaces in between(F A C E). And a bit about time signatures. The next time music would play a part in my educational experience was the CHORUS class that was an elective. I made more friends and more enjoyed that class than any of the "serious" education classes I took. Whitefang |
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Post by tinsmith on Dec 30, 2020 22:37:15 GMT -5
We used Fudge instead of Fine......Tomato.....tomatoe
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Post by whitefang on Dec 31, 2020 10:36:27 GMT -5
We used Fudge instead of Fine......Tomato.... .tomatoe "Does fudge?" And who are you really? My guess is DAN QUAYLE!  Remember, he spelled POTATO as P-O-T-A-T-O-E in front of a roomful of elementary school students at a spelling bee. My guess is you were trying for a pronunciation difference, like "to-MAY-toe"......to-MAH-toe". right? whereas Quayle thought he was correcting the 12 year old's spelling in the bee. Whitefang |
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Post by tinsmith on Jan 1, 2021 10:53:59 GMT -5
Ya, fudge...it's always been fudge.......fudge fudge fudge
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Post by whitefang on Jan 1, 2021 10:59:04 GMT -5
"Every Good Boy Does Fudge" doesn't make sense somehow. And I hope it wasn't meant THIS way! Whitefang |
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Hell, I bought MY first copy back when I was 14( I'll be 70 next year, so you do the math!) And replaced it about 20 or so years ago. And it's the SAME BOOK, with all the old diagrams and photos. Cripes, that kid playing that D'Angelico guitar in those photos, IF still alive has GOT to be in his 80's by now! 
Remember, he spelled POTATO as P-O-T-A-T-O-E in front of a roomful of elementary school students at a spelling bee.