Musicology Jam Tonight
Jamming with Peter Mongaya and Sam Martinez at Musicology. This could be fun :)
Blackbird Pie
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Playa’s School
Just love calling it that. Today was the first day of lessons, and I gotta tell you, I'm stoked. 3 students, varying degrees of ability, totally different backgrounds...it's a blast! This is really a great change of pace for me, and, hopefully, a springboard to more music stuff to come. I was telling Mary that I've always been on the outside of the "music scene," whatever that is. Being mostly a church drummer, I always felt a little deficient in my music knowledge and experience. But I realized that I have had one of the best teachers I could have imagined. You ...
3 Down, 2 to Go
Just finished my 3rd-to-the-last rehearsal with GFC and the experience has moved from absurd to heartbreaking. We talk a lot about love, and the "why" of music, and here is a situation that is (or used to be) all about love and community and relationship. This is a gig I've been playing for 15 years...every tuesday night rehearsal and every sunday almost without exception. Even when it was a strain on my marriage and family, I was there, right or wrong. And so now, nearly at the end, I find myself in the position of having to pull away from ...
Jamming with Peter Mongaya and Sam Martinez at Musicology. This could be fun 
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Just love calling it that.
Today was the first day of lessons, and I gotta tell you, I’m stoked. 3 students, varying degrees of ability, totally different backgrounds…it’s a blast! This is really a great change of pace for me, and, hopefully, a springboard to more music stuff to come.
I was telling Mary that I’ve always been on the outside of the “music scene,” whatever that is. Being mostly a church drummer, I always felt a little deficient in my music knowledge and experience. But I realized that I have had one of the best teachers I could have imagined. You know who you are! I am so prepared for this. Actually, I think I’ll write him an email, so I don’t have to write the rest of the blog entry in code .
Anyway, I’m grateful to not feel totally over my head. Good times.
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Just finished my 3rd-to-the-last rehearsal with GFC and the experience has moved from absurd to heartbreaking. We talk a lot about love, and the “why” of music, and here is a situation that is (or used to be) all about love and community and relationship. This is a gig I’ve been playing for 15 years…every tuesday night rehearsal and every sunday almost without exception. Even when it was a strain on my marriage and family, I was there, right or wrong. And so now, nearly at the end, I find myself in the position of having to pull away from the very thing that sustained me, musically and spiritually, through those years. Cutting the strings of a real family that has been forming for all the right reasons, and simmering over time.
Now, we believe there are good reasons for doing so, and there are brighter paths ahead…and certainly the experience is not what it was, but it is still hard. It feels like a self-appendectomy: I know the thing needs to come out, but it still hurts.
Had a chat with Bill (sound man and good friend) and it just made me sad that these little conversations about him and his family are going to be gone. These things that are familiar and comforting are staying here, while we go somewhere else. It’s hard because these are things that you work towards, this is community that doesn’t just happen over night. Now we have to go start somewhere else.
Anyway, it’s bittersweet, to say the least. but the set is going to absolutely jam this week. Funk Hallelujah Chorus, He Reigns, Say the Name… merry Christmas everyone!
-Adam