Its not time to make a change Just relax, take it easy Youre still young, thats your fault Theres so much you have to know Cat Stevens Scene Now: Auckland Airport 3 hours til departure...listening to my iPod Blues Playlist on random. Scene 24 Hours ago: Sitting in Starbucks relaxing pre-concert while the drizzle in the early spring Auckland streets wet the aspirations of NZ citizens leading their lives of silent and salient desperation... Topic #102:- Dad who should I vote for? Pause...my son knows Im thinking hard - hes got 20 years of these pause experiences - he doesnt break the pause ... wisely he knows hes in for a looong response... I answer... Son, youre a man now - I have three things I wanna say First I can give you my interpretation of the current political climate but you have to choose which of the following youd like to vote for giving my response Once you know the political climate and social conditions of your community you have 3 things to consider 1 - you can choose if you wanna stand out in the rain and weather the storms of the future - many in the world are forging their lives from this choice and discovering great freedoms and happiness out of the isolation. or 2 - or you can do what it takes to build your own shelter and make a happy home for your family ensuring that you are provided the equal opportunity to all resources, information and skills whether personally acquired through education by you and yours or bought in professionally through external expertise...many are fighting hard for these rights as the current situation is not an equal playing field. 3 - or son you can be the house servant in someone elses home and live as comfortably as you like so long as you do what youre told when youre told and dont question the hand that feeds you and your family...thats pretty much what many are experiencing more and more in the current political situation and are incapable of breaking this hegemonic mindtrap so long as those who create a house in which there are masters to be served and servants to be told how to live and to pay tax for the right to serve. Though I try to find the answer To all the questions they ask Though I know its impossible To go living through the past Dont tell no lie Theres a natural mystic Blowing through the air Bob Marley Scene now: Wakame Udon noodle after-taste singing in my mouth ... He Mele Inoa playing on iPod ... One and a half hours to departure for return flight to Wellington Scene 24 hours ago: relaxing in hotel room as the rain carves rivulets of promise down Queens street ... we decide to eat before the concert Topic #343 Tell me son, what field of tertiary study would you pursue if there was a course that made you feel the way you feel when you listen to your favorite music? Silence... His bowl of BBQ Beef Udon has arrived...discussion postponed. “The blues aint nothing but a good man feelin bad” Leon Redbone People should hear the pure blues - the blues we used to have when we had no money. Muddy Waters Scene now: time to enter departure security check Scene 24 Hours ago: Auckland a Town Hall - standing in line with several hundred survivors of new Zealands hippie movement of the 60s and 70s...raining hard...no one complaining - minutes before Joe a Bonamassa takes stage...minutes before a Blue a Dragon would Roar and burn our cares away like some ancient Sphenodon music of a land time forgot Topic #401 Dad what is the blues about? Son, youre a man now - I have three things I wanna say 1 - the blues is something no one can describe for you 2 - the blues is always about love...either fall toward it and how much that hurts...or fall out of live and how much that hurts... 3 - when you get blue son ... Youll know How will I know dad? Your tears will tell you son Is that why all these old people come to these Blues concerts? What do you mean son Well they all stand here in the rain, so if they cry, no one will know... Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. Its about a man and a woman. So the pain and the struggle in the blues is that universal pain that comes from having your heart broken. Most blues songs are not about social statements Wynton Marsalis Review: Last night on the 12th of September Joe Bonamassa played his virgin concert in Aucklands Town Hall. For me it was a welcome quenching of my too long absence from the blues/rock concert scene. I was brought up on Dire Straits, Robert Cray, BB King, U2, Cold Chisel, Santana and various jazz concerts here in Aotearoa wanted to share part of my privilege with my now 20 year old son. This concert wasnt his first time round the rodeo - he is a long time Raggamuffin attendee so he knows the Raggamuffin favours of rock and soul. But the Blues ... well he didnt much and I took it upon myself to be the host that introduced him to his seat at the blues smorgasbord of lifes best lessons...et voila Joe Bonamassa. For those who want to know how the concert went I have three things to say:- 1- I didnt just witness Blues Royalty I bore witness to a real life dragon who roared his presence at the very roots of our whenua - technically this young master gave the belying audience tastes of Rory Gallagher, BB King, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Al Di Meola, Jimmy Page, Santana, Johnny Winter, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Danny Gatton, Duane Allman, and even dear I say a touch of David Gilmour...either way whatever shape he morphed into his voice was indelibly clear and bright as star fire 2 - he shook the earth like some hoary priest of ruaumoko and left the audience thoroughly cindered black and blue with the raw force of balls to walls Gibson Les Paul thunder, lightening and brimstone...his Marshall amps sang of the days of hendrixian glory and at times were pushed to near tube failure but always recovered by the master leaving his faithful servants sated spent in eargasmic satisfaction 3 - those in Melbourne will be thoroughly left destroyed with epiphanies of Dorian pentatonic revelation ... Be warned A dragon comes your way - and his roar is definitely bad to the bone Scene now- leaving Auckland heading back to Wellington Scene 4 hours ago: Love you Dad Love you son ... call me next week - well talk more about the blues k!? The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning. John Lee Hooker E rere Wairua e rere Henare Mahanga Hirini Melbourne youtu.be/dJQWbV1L0Aw
Posted on: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 07:12:05 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015