music

and so i come to the end of the music themed month.
so much i didn't get to do. so many greats who missed out.

it is funny that music plays an important part in my life. i love music. i love that it can transform my mood or it can accentuate it. i hate that so many people just listen to the pap that is fed them via the radio that they don't explore all that is out there (yeah i'm elitest (sort of) so what). for all that i don't have musical memories - i rarely hear music and get transported back to that day when i first heard or it happened to by playing while something significant happened.
(ok i will admit to having an 'our song' whenever i hear phil collins' 'in the air tonight' i remember the night when me and annemarie probably became a couple which is a bit ironic given phil wrote it in anger over his divorce perhaps it was a sign).
music for me is what i listen to hear and now, it is what it does for me hear and now. there are some albums i haven't listened to in years but will get the urge to play them. there are songs i hated but now like. there are genres i avoided but now listen to.
music is at once constant but it is also ever changing.
while i may sneer at a lot of the pop pap that is played today for a whole generation it is their poetry, it is their expression of the world around them.

there are two musicians who have consistently entertained me.
so i am going to end this themed month with two guitarists, both very different, both excellent.

ladies and gentlemen i give you frank zappa playing a lovely solo, shorter than the studio version (from joe's garage acts II & III) but wonderful none the less.



and he is followed by robert fripp who either as the main man in king crimson, or collaborator with peope such as brian eno or andy summers, or as a solo artist has always thrilled and intriqued.
here he is alone making turning a guitar sound into a ambient soundscape. wonderful stuff.