08-05-2022, 08:24 PM
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Diana said:
I've been watching this Stevie Ray Vaughn concert while jumping on my trampoline and dancing.
[Vid: Stevie Ray Vaughan - Full Concert - 09/21/85 - Capitol Theatre (OFFICIAL) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOYoM1mEL0Q ]
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Diana -- sure, like there's any other way!
SRV's dear to my black heart, as I reached a sort of guitarist's satori while playing along with his prodigious
'89 Austin City Limits gig back when it first aired.
I was busy faking it as per usual (and mind you, I was then making a good side-income teaching guitar & performing!)
when -- come the above particular number -- something of his energy broke through the force-field of my towering
self-obsessed vanity re. my technically-impressive-but-glib robotic performance of clichéd sonic memes and realized with
an awful ineffable clarity something crucial about what Gurdjieff called objective music (-- as opposed to the pathetically childish and utterly subjective Guitar Hero noises I was so proudly making, all ripped-off from those who originally made
them as natural expressions of their own unique life-experience).
J. D. Salinger, in his short story "De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period" from Nine Stories (1953) captures something of this
kind of thing:
Something extremely out of the way happened to me some fifteen minutes
later. A statement, I'm aware, that has all the unpleasant earmarks of a
build-up, but quite the contrary is true. I'm about to touch on an extraordinary
experience, one that still strikes me as having been quite transcendent, and I'd
like, if possible, to avoid seeming to pass it off as a case, or even a borderline
case, of genuine mysticism. (To do otherwise, I feel, would be tantamount to
implying or stating that the difference in spiritual sorties between St. Francis
and the average, highstrung, Sunday leper-kisser is only a vertical one.) . . . .
It was just then that I had my Experience. Suddenly (and I say this, I believe,
with all due self-consciousness), the sun came up and sped toward the bridge
of my nose at the rate of ninety-three million miles a second. Blinded and very
frightened -- I had to put my hand on the glass to keep my balance. The thing
lasted for no more than a few seconds. When I got my sight back. . .
Here's the playlist of Albert C.'s first album, Be True To Yourself (2004):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk6Onh6l...Op7ay8bnA0
featuring the ex-Double Trouble rhythm section (bassist Tommy Shannon, drummer Chris Layton),
produced by SRV's own producer, Jim Gaines. Hmmm. . . do you get the feeling that maybe somebody
agrees with me that he is a very worthy follower in Stevie's giant footsteps?
Speaking of which, in relation to dancing. . .
Many Icarus-like attempts are made at covering Stevie's tunes; only the bravely-spirited few succeed in
bringing out the energy!
Traditional Korean music has a distinctive scale which is called gungsanggakchiu, pretty much the same as the
good old "Western" bluesian pentatonic scale (or "five notes & you're good to go; if you need more, bend 'em").
Just apply a little awesome chops & powerful grooviness to the nearest gayageum and let the 짱 times roll ![i]
[jjang = super, tip-top] [/i]
Diana said:
I've been watching this Stevie Ray Vaughn concert while jumping on my trampoline and dancing.

[Vid: Stevie Ray Vaughan - Full Concert - 09/21/85 - Capitol Theatre (OFFICIAL) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOYoM1mEL0Q ]
[/quote]
~
Diana -- sure, like there's any other way!

SRV's dear to my black heart, as I reached a sort of guitarist's satori while playing along with his prodigious
'89 Austin City Limits gig back when it first aired.
I was busy faking it as per usual (and mind you, I was then making a good side-income teaching guitar & performing!)
when -- come the above particular number -- something of his energy broke through the force-field of my towering
self-obsessed vanity re. my technically-impressive-but-glib robotic performance of clichéd sonic memes and realized with
an awful ineffable clarity something crucial about what Gurdjieff called objective music (-- as opposed to the pathetically childish and utterly subjective Guitar Hero noises I was so proudly making, all ripped-off from those who originally made
them as natural expressions of their own unique life-experience).
J. D. Salinger, in his short story "De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period" from Nine Stories (1953) captures something of this
kind of thing:
Something extremely out of the way happened to me some fifteen minutes
later. A statement, I'm aware, that has all the unpleasant earmarks of a
build-up, but quite the contrary is true. I'm about to touch on an extraordinary
experience, one that still strikes me as having been quite transcendent, and I'd
like, if possible, to avoid seeming to pass it off as a case, or even a borderline
case, of genuine mysticism. (To do otherwise, I feel, would be tantamount to
implying or stating that the difference in spiritual sorties between St. Francis
and the average, highstrung, Sunday leper-kisser is only a vertical one.) . . . .
It was just then that I had my Experience. Suddenly (and I say this, I believe,
with all due self-consciousness), the sun came up and sped toward the bridge
of my nose at the rate of ninety-three million miles a second. Blinded and very
frightened -- I had to put my hand on the glass to keep my balance. The thing
lasted for no more than a few seconds. When I got my sight back. . .
Here's the playlist of Albert C.'s first album, Be True To Yourself (2004):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk6Onh6l...Op7ay8bnA0
featuring the ex-Double Trouble rhythm section (bassist Tommy Shannon, drummer Chris Layton),
produced by SRV's own producer, Jim Gaines. Hmmm. . . do you get the feeling that maybe somebody
agrees with me that he is a very worthy follower in Stevie's giant footsteps?
Speaking of which, in relation to dancing. . .
Many Icarus-like attempts are made at covering Stevie's tunes; only the bravely-spirited few succeed in
bringing out the energy!
Traditional Korean music has a distinctive scale which is called gungsanggakchiu, pretty much the same as the
good old "Western" bluesian pentatonic scale (or "five notes & you're good to go; if you need more, bend 'em").
Just apply a little awesome chops & powerful grooviness to the nearest gayageum and let the 짱 times roll ![i]
[jjang = super, tip-top] [/i]