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Congratulations on your career choice, you’ve done so well.

Thanks for the link, I really enjoyed it.

They’d all be double albums, the White album for certain, maybe The Wall, maybe REO You Get What You Play For, maybe Exile On Main Street, but I’ve been thinking too hard on this now, I have to go to bed.

I rarely like what I’ve written afterwards. The only time I like it is when I’m working on something. I think I enjoy the process more than the results if it’s all my work. collaborations are different tho. I really like those results. I truly enjoy the new melody as opposed to the melody the lyric was written with.

Like Rich, one concert in particular stands out, and it’s surprising as well. Dan Fogelberg. 1983. I had just graduated boot camp and was home on Christmas leave. My older sister had gotten me a ticket and she and I went while my girlfriend babysat her daughter. The first thing I noticed was the variety of people who were there, all age groups from the very old to the very young. Calm is how I would describe the scene inside the Peoria Civic Center that night. Hanging from the ceiling was the largest American flag I’d ever seen and on stage stood a lone grand piano, black. A hometown boy, many in the audience personally knew him or his family. His father, of “The Leader of The Band” was a school teacher so you can imagine all the prior students of his and Dans teachers and friends had gathered in the thousands and it seemed like everyone we met had their own personal story about their experiences with the Fogel family. I’ve never experienced anything like it since, a great night all in all. RIP Dan, thanks for the memory.

Okay, I was able to do that in the past too, except I never hit return on the phones keyboard. I guess I was looking for Enter, it’s the return key to enter.

I guess my Luddite tendencies have come home to roost. I can’t figure out how to add a remark in the chat room using my phone. I almost exclusively use the phone to get on line anymore.

I guess it was more about the bands I liked moving from rock to disco just to appease the market. Some didn’t do that, some for perhaps only one song, but some just went along with it. R and B went the way of disco, radio, but there were a lot of bands that held their own. For people of my generation, rock and folk had mainly ruled the airwaves form many years until disco then punk and all the rest that followed. I honestly think the real problem I had with it was that it marked the end of an era the likes of which we probably won’t see again. The rest of it is probably attributable to human nature not liking changes of any kind.

The article makes some points that I’ve heard before, we listen to the music we grew up with in adolescence. I like more of the same but new releases. Thankfully there were so many artists I didn’t get to hear much of back then. 45’s had B sides, so I’m kinda listening to the B sides so to speak. Public Radio has some good new music on after 7 pm that I enjoy. Mostly indie stuff so occasionally I reject what I’m hearing as rubbish but I like most of it, for the reason that it’s new to me. I do not care for canned pop, country, or any other genre that’s just pumped out on an assembly line. im too old for some heavy metal of the 80’s. Weird thing was my friends liked it. I went the way of the blues instead. I suppose it’s still what draws me in. Funk makes me want to dance but I don’t like disco.

I’ve never seen an introduction post receive 1.3 thousand views. Pretty obvious people want to know who you are.

It’s harder than it should be. I haven’t written a poem for a long time but recently I’ve wanted to take a poem, then write a paragraph about it like the free writing exercise does it, then build a lyric from there. My thinking is, we’re trying to turn the poem into a lyric, but maybe instead of trying to literally interpret it, we should just let the poem inspire what comes next you know.

This is very good, so well written.

I would too, those are great

Great stuff! Do you put words into a program that AI interprets as art? I could get addicted to the results of doing that.

That’s a great performance, terroristically introspective. I would be interested in his perspective on lyrics for sure. thanks for posting this