"Ce qui vient au monde pour ne rien troubler ne mérite ni égards ni patience." René Char
I doubt if i could remember the first Blu-Ray i bought as a kid. i do remember you had to put the weird yellow thing in the big hole to make it stay centered for the laser.
i think i was heading toward the ripe old age of 12 when pops bought me something he called a record player. it had detachable speakers with cords long enough to stretch on either side of my pillow. i'm not sure if i knew what headphones were.
so i would go to bed listening to Sketches of Spain, the same side over and over again, until i finally killed the bull midway through the night. then i would wake sadly, and flip the "record" over.
Not certain if this had an effect on my schooling, though i did sleep a lot in class. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaďs Nin
you'd think Otis Redding would come before Archie Shepp
You couldn't be more right! The first time I was asked which record I would like as a gift, I asked for this one:
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaďs Nin
the effect on impressionable young minds.
And bodies, man, and bodies...
Besides, it was 1968, so there was a lot of other things/events that impressed my young mind... "Ce qui vient au monde pour ne rien troubler ne mérite ni égards ni patience." René Char
i have no explanation as to why i taught the kids in my woodlands class to sing Xochimilco instead of locomotion. ahhh, but that leads to...
I snuck into the control room at camp, and instead of revillie, i woke th kids up to this...
and i don't know why, other than i was so cool (ahem) "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaďs Nin
But I am not sure that US audiences went through the same trad jazz and coffee shop music seague as in the UK ('51 - '61) You can't be me, I'm taken
There is a strong jazz tradition in the Nordics, still alive today. You can't be me, I'm taken
