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We did an Independence Day gig at the nursing home of the VA Hospital for our area. We all had a great time, and met a lot of interesting people. The parts of the facility that I saw were spotless and well maintained. Plus the help seemed to be very friendly and respectful to the disabled vets. That was very good to see.

Don't say no no no no --- say maybe Maybe Baby — Buddy Holly & The Crickets

Heart Of The Sunrise — Yes

Jenny Jenny — Little Richard

Cream & Sugar makes the coffee better.

Another lady tried to save her and went chest first into the same propeller. It was an udder disaster.

Blue Train — John Coltrane Somewhere in this house, I have that LP.

Crikey—I cleanly missed the clever cricket joke that someone cracked. It's a catastrophe by Jiminy. (I haven't watched TV since the early 1990s, so all my TV references are old—I'm approaching my codger years.)

C Jam Blues — Duke Ellington

Neither you nor I nor anyone else has to like it, and we can list reasons why, but it's hard to argue with something that makes zillions of dollars. I don't like football, hang gliding, or hot peppers, but lots of people do. And I can think of reasons why I don't like them. Football=boring. Hang gliding=dangerous. Hot peppers=the plants developed that to keep animals from eating them, who am I to argue?

Again, I'll stick with what I learned in school and via the Berklee correspondence course. I paid for those lessons, and I'm going to use them Melody, harmony, and rhythm are all components of music, but according to what I learned, you need all three for it to be music. But like I said earlier, we probably just need to agree to disagree.

I'll stick with what I learned in school, and via the Berklee Correspondence course. What you describe is a melody, a component of music, but not music.

The Birds And The Bees — Jewel Akens

Then I guess we'll have to agree to disagree on this subject.

I'm happy your guitar survived undamaged. I had a friend who put his SG against his amp to go to the kitchen for a snack during practice. When he got back, it fell, and the headstock broke and was folded against the neck.

The Wind The Scream (First Theme) — Ennio Morricone

The beatniks called it “Beat Poetry”. The Charlie Parker part was music, and they added poetry on top. The result was a hybrid. I'm not posting a criticism to Rap, it's an art form all by itself, but it's poetry, often over some music. Is a woman doing a strip tease to music, doing what you would call making music? No, she is dancing to the music. Is that mockingbird outside my window making music? No, it's beautiful but melody without rhythm or harmony. African Tribal Percussion is not music if it lacks all 3 elements. That doesn't mean it's bad, it can be delightful, and I get lost in the rhythms, but it isn't music unless it has melody, harmony, and rhythm. That's like saying "I woke up this morning, ate breakfast, and caught the bus to work" poetry. It's just prose. It's all good IMO as long as it has someone who likes it, but we have to be careful with watering down our definitions, or they eventually become meaningless. Rap is poetry that can be recited over music. Like the beatniks did, only more modern. Music: 1. The art of arranging sounds in time so as to produce a continuous, unified, and evocative composition, as through melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre. That's what I was taught in school. Rap may be great, I might love it, but it fails the definition. This is not a criticism, just an observation. Insights and incites by Notes ♫

Quite entertaining, I enjoyed it, and it's definitely an art form, but other than the guitar solos, it's not music. Poetry? Theatrics? Whatever. But until you can notate that on a staff and play it with piano, saxophone, guitar, trumpet, or whatever, IMO it isn't music. It would be like saying a Shakespeare play is music if you gave it a guitar intro. Or the Beat Poets of the 1950s reciting poetry over Charlie Parker recordings. Music needs all three, melody, harmony and rhythm. What I'm not saying is that Rap is bad. Some is good, some isn't. What I am saying is that it isn't music. It's an art form but not a song. Insights and incites by Notes ♫

Diamonds & Rust — Joan Baez

Leave those trees alone. ^ ^ ^