Me and 'The Music.'

I've always got some kind of sound going on in my head. If I'm not imagining a tune, I'm humming one. If I'm not doing either, it's because there's some music being played that I'm listening to.

I'm obsessed.

Maybe if things had turned out different for me, I would have become a composer. I'm not saying that I would have become a good composer, but nevertheless, I may have gone in that direction had there been any opportunity to do so.

As those of you who have been reading my junk here know, I like all sorts of stuff. There's very little that I don't like.

I don't like jazz fusion, -a la Miles Davis' 'Bitches Brew', but I do like a lot of Davis' other stuff. 'Fusion' sounds to me like a bunch of wankers sitting around trying to impress each other. Pretentious.

However, I do like racket-ey stuff like Ornette Coleman, Don Pullen, James 'Blood' Ulmer -players who use copious amounts of 'noise' to get their ideas across. Great stuff, if you're in the mood for it.

'New Country' is pretty much all shit as well. What the fuck happened there? Somebody in Nashville figured that if they could meld country with pop/rock, they could make a shit pile of dough. They were right. Unfortunately, it doesn't make for very enjoyable listening.

A lot of rap/hip-hop doesn't work for me either. That's because I'm getting too old for that stuff. It's a kids game, and good for them too! They're making music for themselves that is uniquely their own. That's what they're supposed to do. It's their job to do something that annoys us older squares.

Remember when we were teenagers listening to The Velvet Underground, or The Sex Pistols, or Triumph, or Bela Bartok, and driving our parents nuts? We were doing our job! That's what the kids today are doing: Finding their own way. Creating their own lives.

In fact, I don't think I'm actually allowed to listen to, or own any of the music that they're playing today. It's illegal………..

Some operas can drive me absolutely nuts as well, but there are certain pieces from some that I love. Listen to Mascagni's 'Cavaleria Rusticana, and tell me you don't like opera! 

For the most part, I'm just one big music fan.

In my world Beethoven leads to Charlie Parker, leads to Hank Williams, leads to AC/DC, leads to The Rolling Stones, leads to Muddy Waters, leads to Dock Boggs, leads to The Sex Pistols, leads to Claude Debussy, leads to Tom Waits, leads to Dean Martin, leads to B.B. King, leads to The Foo Fighters, (how the fuck does that happen), leads to Webb Pierce………..

Since I don't have a photo that fits this post, here's a shot of a telephone post:

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