tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36734162168309011.post1669279528363298900..comments2023-10-30T09:14:56.454-07:00Comments on The Doghouse: A beautiful spaceJosh Urbanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06279725212195688662noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36734162168309011.post-51961714383491184342007-09-19T18:38:00.000-07:002007-09-19T18:38:00.000-07:00Dude, you are so right. I've been "doing battle" w...Dude, you are so right. I've been "doing battle" with guitar since long before Myspace -- in fact, for 42 depressing years. <BR/><BR/>All the time longing for transcendent musical conversation, for cats who are as good at listening as they are at playing. And I have seen an example of this, once. A group led by the former drummer for Vince Guaraldi (Charlie Brown's Christmas), a fellow named Jerry Granelli, playing with his son on bass, and with a couple of absolutely awesome guitarists. <BR/><BR/>So we have all seen awesome guitarists. They grow on trees. But these guys were, indeed, different. They were listening so intently to each other in a nearly pure improvisational idiom. They deferred to each other so perfectly. ANytime any one of them found a cool idea, all the others got real soft, and listened intently, and then they all pounced selflessly on the new idea, to elaborate it as well as they could. <BR/><BR/>It was breathtaking. <BR/><BR/>So one of these magical people was David Tronzo:<BR/><BR/>http://www.myspace.com/tronzo<BR/><BR/>Tronzo, who teaches guitar at Berkley in Boston, is re-inventing several things about guitar, including its use as a form of what I would have to call -- prayer. <BR/><BR/>And he is reinventing how to teach guitar, more thoroughly, with more discipline and selfless dedication. <BR/><BR/>So I honor you, Josh, for learning the lessons of music as prayer, and for following that with you heart. <BR/><BR/>Spirit has in mind some musical agenda for you. If you open your heart to it completely, then it will suddenly cease to be about competition or comparison. Your music will just be awesomely yours, uniquely yours. <BR/><BR/>Namaste, <BR/><BR/>Patrick Wilson-Welsh<BR/>(guitarist, songwriter, software consultant, meditator, troublemaker)patrickwilsonwelshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03810186815543597592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36734162168309011.post-42969885579186462952007-09-10T13:10:00.000-07:002007-09-10T13:10:00.000-07:00You are so right, Josh! The music is magic, and th...You are so right, Josh! The music is magic, and the musician the magician. But the beauty of the trick seems to come from somewhere else. No matter what the art form, I think the best plan is to be so doggone good at it, actual GREATNESS has a place to flow through. My 2 cents, anyway... keep writing, pondering, and making music. We need more like you!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36734162168309011.post-17184449379642298092007-09-10T09:14:00.000-07:002007-09-10T09:14:00.000-07:00Wow Josh, I somehow missed the fact that you had b...Wow Josh, I somehow missed the fact that you had blog set up till I saw it in Bonesighs newsletter this month.<BR/>Better late than never to comment on your piece "A beautiful Space". <BR/>I'm not a musician yet your description wasn't lost on me, you are just as good with words as with music, but then for some of us who enjoy them so much, they can be one and the same.<BR/>Anyway, your words were music to my ears.....yeah corny, just couldn't let that opportunity go by. It's Monday...had to amuse myself.<BR/>Just keep being as authentic as you are....keep being in the knowing of who you are, that's what we all want to hear.<BR/>Blessings.....Christie<BR/>www.thelightspeakers.comThe Lightspeakershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12440569417137258209noreply@blogger.com