[lit-ideas] Re: To whom it may concern
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- Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 09:59:27 +0200
On 02 Apr 2014, at 01:59, Ursula Stange <ursula@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ... This will surely help Chris recover.
>
> On Apr 1, 2014, at 6:12 PM, Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> (3) Rudy gets invited to choose what he wants to do after he gets home from
>> nursery. ... Sometimes it’s something novel:
>> “I want to vacuum” ...
I liked to vacuum around that age, too. Of course part of the attraction was
being able to sit and sometimes for a short time even ride on one of those
1950's rocket-shaped machines like the one featured here in these photos of Don
Van Vliet a.k.a. Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band:
http://www.teenagefanclub.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=191583
>> (4) While riding in the car, Rudy is introduced to his first Beatles -
>> ...After Yellow Submarine comes Strawberry Fields Forever. ... Rudy now
>> prefers Strawberry Fields to Yellow Submarine – in fact, what he prefers
>> most is “the weird bit”. ...
MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR was the first LP (it was released in that format in Canada
& the US) that I ever bought - and 'Strawberry Fields' was my favourite song. I
also bought the music book containing all the songs - somehow those 'weird
bits' were hard to reproduce on the family upright piano. (I also got my first
electric guitar for Christmas that year [1967] - one of those $25 department
store models - and learned to play it through a home-made amp an 'uncle' gave
me.) At high school we put on a play which featured Sgt. Pepper's Lonely
Salvation Army Band - my first public musical performance.
Thanks Donal (and Ursula) - this definitely has cheered me up.
Chris Bruce, Jr. [inner],
in Kiel, Germany
P.S. I sold that guitar to a high-school friend a few years later - but still
play, and have bought several instruments over the years. (My current
collection numbers 12 or 13; I always forget one or the other when I count.)
Last year an odd-looking instrument in a music-store window caught the corner
of my eye as I was passing. The next day I went in out of curiosity more than
anything else - and after 10 seconds of playing it realized I had found the
guitar I had been looking/listening for for the past 45 years.
Yamaha SLG 130NW Classical Style 'Silent' Guitar:
http://usa.yamaha.com/products/musical-instruments/guitars-basses/silentguitars/slg130nw_light_amber_burst/?mode=model#pr-header-1303850
I play it through this Yamaha THR10 Modelling and Recording Amp (which is
'light years' ahead of that home-made amp, or any other professional equipment
- Peavey, Acoustic, Marshall, etc. - I've used or tried):
http://usa.yamaha.com/products/musical-instruments/guitars-basses/amps/thr/thr10_v2/?mode=model#tab=product_lineup#tab=product_lineup
And finally, kudos to Kawaii for their top-end digital pianos. My MP9500 has
been long superseded but is still sufficient for my requirements. When playing
it I actually 'see' (hallucinate) the grain on the ivory keys of the old Mason
& Risch 'upright grand' (that my father somehow managed to acquire sometime in
the 1950's for $100) under my fingers. The sound and action are superb.
- B.
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