Life has a strange way of working.
One of my greatest passions is music. I come from a musical family. I love jazz, opera, classics, R and B, Soul, Blues, even a bit of rap and rock – pretty much everything except “light” music and C & W.
I’ve seen everyone from Louis Armstrong to Miles Davis to Otis Redding to Kiri te Kanawa and Pavarotti. But one of my personal tragedies was that since the minute I lost that boyish treble my vocal skills have been not unlike that of a corncrake in pain.
Happily, my children have made up for this. I may have mentioned Martina here before. I think she’s wandering round the world with Massive Attack right now, but here’s another.
The picture at the top is of a group called The Word. The moody one on the left is my son Nick. If you want a party band, they’re for you- they do 60’s and 70’s stuff. If you’d like to hear what they’re like, you’ll be agreeably surprised at http://thewordpartyband.co.uk/Video.html. I certainly was.
And I was even more surprised when my youngest, who’s in New Jersey, told me she’s been approached by a record label there. Martina started at 15. Chantal is even younger.
I don’t know. My father and two of my uncles were excellent musicans. So was my grandfather. Talent has skipped a generation.
Well Drayton
it's a pity you don't have any other skills… like marketing guru
cheers
Warren
Have you ever compared the music groupies with the guru groupies??? The former want to do all sorts of thrilling things with you (so I'm told). The latter either ask you about social media or – at my age – prod you to see if you're still alive.
sounds like the former are focused on the performance and the latter on the encore… my god they were glorious days
I am desperately trying to find time to lower the tone of literature by writing my autobiography, which will certainly shed a light on the good times
Please watch this trailer of a documentary about the music industry.
Thanks Kurt
http://www.welcome-to-the-dream.com/teasers/lowbandwidth/fundingcampaign.php
Yes, the music biz is not all happy stuff. Oddly enough since I wrote that blog my youngest has started out. She seems exceptionally level headed though. I think you’ve seen her on my facebook stuff