There are these rare moments when musicians together touch something sweeter than they've ever found before in rehearsals or performance, beyond the merely collaborative or technically proficient, when their expression becomes as easy and graceful as friendship or love. This is when they give us a glimpse of what we might be, of our best selves, and of an impossible world in which you give everything you have to others, but lose nothing of yourself. Out in the real world there exist detailed plans, visionary projects for peaceable realms, all conflicts resolved, happiness for everyone, for ever – mirages for which people are prepared to die and kill. Christ's kingdom on earth, the workers' paradise, the ideal Islamic state. But only in music, and only on rare occasions, does the curtain actually lift on this dream of community, and it is tantalizingly conjured, before fading away with the last notes - Ian McEwan, from his novel Saturday
Well done, Chris. Love the music. However, the album cover is a bit of an acquired taste - I can take the references to drug and alcohol abuse, being a bit of birder (like our own Waxwing) I love the vultures eating the corpse - but what's that thing at the bottom of the picture with 5 strings??!!
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"I ain't good looking, teeth don't shine like pearls, So glad good looks don't take you through this world." Barbecue Bob
Seems to me on first sight the vultures are eating the wrong thing. On reflection, perhaps its the player who's not a gent and deserves his fate for playing the d**n thing.
Scott Harrison -- Portland artist/tattoo artist. Some of the band (but not me) have tattoos by him as well. I like tattoos on other people. http://www.headbandbrothers.com