LOL!

It is a bit of a provocation, you’re right. I wrote it at a time when I fantasized that I could squeeze as many syllables into a line as I needed if I could just find the right time chop…

As you could probably tell, this is a warts and all kind of operation. Thanks for coming by!

I’ve been pondering the grammar issue above since last year…

Just kidding. Life has distracted me from myself and all my creations. I’ve been a bad blog host, indeed.

Now, back to that grammar issue: we both agree that strode is past tense. I suspect we would both think it okay if I substituted walked for strode, yes?

Could I not then say, “Once, I walked across continents…”?

Sure, it sounds a bit mannered — but we’re talking about a song ‘about’ an angel, here…

Anyhow, thanks for your comments and the nice compliment. Hope to see you again around here. I need to kick this thing into life again.

Thank you so very much. Obviously, the passing of my musical brother brought a lot of deep feelings up. We played together almost a half century. And saw a lot of life together, as well.

I’m sorry to have taken so long to reply. It’s been a long pandemic.

I knew I sounded familiar!

Thanks for stopping by! Sorry for taking so long to reply, LOL.

Charles

You’re clearly a person after my own heart!

I’m sorry I didn’t see this before to approve and reply to it. I really need to visit this place more often. Maybe I’d even be fired up enough to write something new…

Thanks!

Using the word “once” in front of the word “strode” is unnecessary

“I strode across continents” is sufficient

Also, angels do not enslave.
Angels encourage freedom, not enslavement.

thanks! Great song!

That is a beautiful piece of writing … you are educated and it shines.
Your thoughts and experiences lucidly transmitted.

Everything that we don’t see at internet land, where language is dressed down and thought is reduced.
You know what … write a book!

I came to this after a Gearspace reply to your assertion that McLaughlin could solo on 12 string.
I replied as Driftola: “ Curious, which McLaughlin 12 string solo d’you rate?”
I didn’t reply there but followed your profile to here.

all best,
Steve Topping

You posses a distinct, carefree, upper register not unlike that of Bono (not U2’s Bono)

Perhaps do a direct comparison, side by side with your recordings and Sonny’s pivotal recordings. You might be pleasantly surprised. Sonny Bono was a pop genius and svengali and was a fashion trendsetter

I didn’t know anything about open reel machines, but taught myself about ’em by looking at eBay listings….I then bought a busted (only one channel working) Sony 530 and tore it apart and examined it’s innards…then began buying and tinkering to satisfy my new-found lust for the bulky and ugly monsters

I also have a fine collection of minidisc recorders and a vast collection of LP records featuring exclusively (what I call) FAMILY GOSPEL albums…you know, the ones with big-haired singers adorning their covers?

Wish I could get my heavy Akai 355-D working again…bought it from a mom and her son in a trailer by the beach (it was a relatives possession)….probably weighs 100 pounds…it was working, then I dusted off a circuit board and all hell broke loose…whaddya expect from a 60-year old assembly line product?

Best field recorder I own is a vintage ZOOM HN-4….it’s a bland thing, but takes two batteries and never fails…it has those 90-120 degree tilting mics that look neat, but do nothing different when tilted…stereo of course…it’s a workhorse….or sometimes I use a variety of minidisc Hi-MD recorders with standard condenser mini-mics….with me, it’s the material and content of voice or object sound that matters…audio quality is always secondary….I mean, would you rather have a poor recording of Lincoln giving the Gettysburg Address, or no recording of it at all…so, content not audio quality rules the roost IMHO…and Lincoln is on the penny, so it all works out for everybody!