Re: LSQG™ - Tuesday, 1/3/MMXII #3603

On 1/5/2012 3:17 PM, muddy wrote:
On Jan 5, 12:10 pm, Twibil<nowayjo...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jan 5, 12:55 am, R H Draney<dadoc...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



Tuesday I'm going to see someone who performed at Woodstock at the age of 22;
she's now 64 and still gettin' it done (saw her at the same small club a little
over a year ago, less than two weeks after the death of her husband)....r

I'm now 68, and have been a working musician for around 52 years at
this point. My background and private store of licks are still
getting me past, but I *know* that I'm neither as creative nor as well-
coodinated as I once was, and my voice is not even in the same
building -much less range- that it used to inhabit.

Can I still play and put on a good show (good enough to fool non-
musicians, anyway) at my age? Sure. But the edge is gone and it
ain't coming back.

Age, alas, *does* matter to a musician, and it isn't just a number.

~Pete

agreed, pete. i'm 54 and have been singing and playing drums in bands
since i was 15. it's how i currently make my living. i haven't seen a
steep decline yet, but i can tell that i don't have the flexibility
and agility on the kit that i did even ten years ago. vocally, i'm
still ok, but there are keys to some songs that i can't hit like i
used to. it's just a fact of life. none of us will slip by father
time....i guess it does teach one thing when playing music. less can
be more......

It amuses me when would-be musicians come to the WZBB and ask for the chords to Lawyers, Guns & Money - and insist on playing the song *exactly* like Zevon did. If you play the Excitable Boy album, which ends with LGM, and then one of the "field recordings" of his live performances in the late 90's, early 00's, you might notice the newer version is performed in a lower key. Not even Warren Zevon could hit the notes he used to.
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