Tag: music
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Memoir: the weaving of a dream 1976
It’s a Friday night in March, and Phil, Glen, Billy and I, all sophisticated 8th graders, quietly climb a ladder into the cramped space under the rafters in Billy’s garage. We bring with us a 12 pack of beer and a transistor radio. The little attic is dark and smells of roof tar and sawdust.…
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Music: There’s a Virus Among us/Joliet Blues (2020)
Here’s a song that captures what my musical partner Andy and I used to do in my garage on a regular basis: we’d find a groove, and then extemporize upon it. And when all the conditions are right–we weren’t trying to impress anyone, we just want to explore what the simple structure of the beat…