RE: Things Worth Doing
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I was watching something in a link @meno posted a while back about an amazing guitarist. I watched one of his podcast eps where he spoke about the guitar work in Pink Floyd.
About how it gave the music space to breathe and that he was quite possibly the slowest guitar player in the world. No one celebrates slow in the guitar world. Its all about fast shredding and amazing solos, but no.
Not this man's band. Give the stuff space to breathe. Let it sit, and to quote the video, Why play a note today, when you can play one tomorrow?
A lot of the work is like that. I really absolutely fucking adore the song Time - the way it sits, the way it breathes, and the opening cacophony of clocks going off and making sound.
I am sad that I am younger than most people who really do appreciate the work that Walters brought into the world, and I love the fact that he and his band bankrolled so much Monty Python stuff.
What a time to be alive, that would have been.
Oh I love that, that's such an apt description for Pink Floyd! Room to breathe. It makes me miss my record player, but I'll be back home in a couple of days and I foresee some Pink Floyd. To breathe ;)
I need this kind of attitude. Too much doing. It's not good for anybody.
I love Time too. That's the brilliant thing about it, it takes time.
Oh, as someone who grew up on Monty Python, I can relate!! Never liked the Beatles much, but knowing George Harrison funded Life of Brian almost single-handed is a big point in my book :D
True, I see what you mean about living in their time then, but at the same time, we living now also got to experience a bunch of younger artists that wouldn't have been accessible to us then.
While I listen to a lot of metal, I do have a soft spot for some of the greats of this era of music. When I swing from something like Machinehead or Arch Enemy to Florence and the Machine people ... doubt my sanity.
I just like deep and profound things - and they can be found across most genres. That, and I like story.
I hate to bug you about it again (but I want to!), but did you read my Florence and Ferrari tidbit?