Always a problem with figuring out whether a performer wants you to comp
or be the time keeper. These days I might ask. I backed James Caan once
for some "3/4 blues" but it was more like "3/4 1 and 7/8s". :-D
On 10/30/2014 11:49 AM, curtisdeltabl...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
That is so badass I can hardly stand it. I didn't know that about you.
Guys like Lighting just went where they felt like it whenever they
wanted. I miss some of the raggedy irregularity of those guys. Can't
imagine backing him though!
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> wrote :
Here's someone I once giged with though a bit of a nightmare for any
drummer as he tended to drop beats. :-D
http://youtu.be/keQR4_7DBnM
On 10/30/2014 10:37 AM, nablusoss1008 wrote:
That would be one weird film :-)
Curtis Blues Pre Delta War Blues.
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUk7NexVhGk>
image <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUk7NexVhGk>
Curtis Blues Pre Delta War Blues.
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUk7NexVhGk>
Went to visit the Grandparents in old town, and ran into Curtis
Blues, before we knew the kids were part of the band. See the CNN
piece on him at the bottom ...
View on www.youtube.com <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUk7NexVhGk>
Preview by Yahoo
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>, <noozguru@...>
<mailto:noozguru@...> wrote :
Now I wonder what Nabby would think of your music if David Lynch
decided to use a cut of it in a film? ;-)
On 10/30/2014 08:17 AM, curtisdeltablues@...
<mailto:curtisdeltablues@...> [FairfieldLife] wrote:
What happened to the guy who said that the conversation was over
from your side? I guess you are seeking some closure you haven't
gotten yet. Let's see if I can help.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>,
<no_re...@yahoogroups.com> <mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote :
You claim you produce art.
M: I claim that my music is my art. I make living as a musical
artist. Because you erroneously conflate this with me saying I
make life changing, ground breaking, masterful, mind blowing,
art you have contrived something to criticize me for beyond
offering your personal opinion about a video you saw. I simply
say that this is MY art. It is how I represent my inner life
into a form of sound that is shared with others. The people who
pay me to perform it and who buy my CDs like it, I acknowledge
that you have weighed in that you don't like the videos you saw
of my performance, and most people say :" Who?"
N: I claim you produce noise
M: What aspect of this point do you think I have missed? I get
it, you have an unfavorable opinion about a video you saw.
Check. Message received. You seem to be looking for a different
outcome than me recognizing your opinion. Do you think perhaps I
might use your opinion to stop working in this field? Do you
think with your feedback I will change my musical focus, take up
the violin perhaps?
I have enjoyed this chat as a writing prompt for considering
this public job I do. What you don't seem to realize, as you
strive to influence me with your opinion, is that before I ever
stand in front of other people to judge my art, I have already
spent countless hours passing the audition of my toughest
critic, me. Any performing artist spends 99 per cent of his or
her time alone mastering their art to their own satisfaction. I
play the way I like, that is why I am at peace with people who
don't like it. Of course I don't usually hear from them so this
has been a bit of an opportunity for reflection and I thank you
for that.
And despite your persistently curmudgeonly view of my work, I
get a lot of positive feedback because I put on excellent shows.
I work hard at it like most conscientious people in their jobs
and I get the job done. Performing is a weird line of work in
that your job performance review is simultaneous to you doing
the job. But even if audiences took your POV and rejected my
music, I would still be playing it this way. I would just not be
getting paid for it! Like most people with a desire to express
themselves through art, I would only perform for myself and
whatever girlfriend I was torturing with my music at the time.
The positive or negative feedback from other people doesn't
change an artist's need to express their inner life the way they do.
You don't seem to understand this fact about artists. So instead
you are caught up in a world of thinking your harsh statements
should affect me in some way. Art doesn't come from that place
you can reach with your words. It isn't sustained by people
appreciating what an artist produces. Artists live in the world
beyond all the rise and fall of outer opinions. Many great
artists were only appreciate after their death, Robert Johnson
included. He was not popular in his day. He was struggling till
the day he died.
That is one of the many reasons I devote my life to bringing the
gift of the arts into schools. It is a gift of self expression
that can infuse a life with meaning and beauty. So I accept your
opinion, but reject your view of art as an elitist activity for
a certain few who are deemed (who deems them again, you?) worthy
of using the word art. You are on the wrong side of the hater
fence Nabbie. Not about my music, you are welcome to your
judgement, but about the concept of how the activity of
producing art at any level enriches the human spirit. It exists
way beyond the ability for you to influence. It would enrich
your own life if you could step out of the judgmental cage of
your greatness-or-nothing view.
N: and that your ego is out of control. It's not complicated.
M: Here you are just being silly and trying to be mean. It is
complicated. I have a realistic view of where my artistic
contributions fit into the history of my genre. Do you know who
is the most humble concerning their own musical talent and
Robert Johnson's greatness? The guy who plays his music every
day with respect and wonder that such an artist might be
forgotten in this generation.
