Musicians ! you guys are a funny lot . Why do musicians seem to be a walking disaster area in relationships ? What is it with you people ?
Dont get me wrong , I love music and I had a wonderful affair with a Keyboard player myself . She was a Vision of beauty and very talented but like so many musicians ,hot housed by her parents and the RCM . It left its mark but she is fine now . Must have been my angelic influence .
Its a tight Knit world of fragile ego's and career's I guess. I suppose they live in the clouds and forget to put their Harps down before they deal with the mundane stuff.
I want to build myself a small cabinet /continuo organ one day but its a while off before I will get to it .
Music is such a powerful medium but I think many musicians are not coached very well on life skills to counter their dedication to their art . I was often astonished at their lack of practical ability in many areas .Still am. They tend to grasp at 'facts' without knowing the technical realities . Often their romantic flights of fancy color their perception . For this reason and others they are usually not terribly welcome on the shop floor of an Organ builders workshop. They usually just make a complete balls up of anything they are given to do .
But then that's the way of it eh ? I hate computers . I really dont like learning to much about them.
I used to tell my GF not to worry about the tiny mistakes and focus on feeling the passion in her playing . Technical perfection can become a painful exercise to listen to. They say Bach could entrance his audience playing the Clavichord. Well its all in the phrasing in my experience . Its the space between the notes as much as the notes themselves. The teasing ,needing and massaging of time and motion that makes the moment so exquisite.
I find the best players are the ones who say little and smile much .
I liked it when my teacher pressed her breasts against my back as she taught me phrasing . A bit distracting but in a nice way . She is a damn good player .
That's what its about Orthy. Feeling and being . To me the Bible is a punch bowl full of Piss . To many meddlers and not enough sweet apples.
And another thing that really bugs me about professional classical musicians. They dont get out and play for the sheer joy of it as much as they should.
I used to make Organists do stuff they shouldn't like play totally inappropriate stuff . I would be clutching my stomach at the delicious impropriety of it and they would be wringing their hands afterwards worrying what god would do ! Like he was even listening.
For heavens sake , live a little and f**k the priests . Give me some funk and rock that big Bitch you neurotic old Queen ! All that heavy weight grunt and your playing some pansy ass dithering melancholy guff . Ugh. Work it baby ,work it like a Ho.
Oh and just in case your wondering , I have done a J.S Bach and taken a GF in the Loft . She may have only pulled out one stop but it was a damn fine tune.