Brotherhood
Does anybody know who this is? Merican Music. I’m one of their links and I can’t figure out who it is.
OK back to yesterday’s thing about brotherhood and stuff. This is actually going somewhere, it’s just going to take a few days to get there.
The brotherhood effect can be plainly seen when comparing The Police to any of Sting’s other bands. Was there any rock band leader in history (except Zappa maybe) who could put together a more powerful band than Sting? He was the Miles Davis of popular music. But! It was always more exciting to watch The Police play because there was that brotherhood, co-ownership. In Sting’s bands after The Police he was the guy signing the checks, calling the shots. This makes a huge difference.
It was the same thing with David Lee Roth’s band he put together right after he left Van Halen. Vai and Sheehan in the same band? Are you kidding me?!? Who could pull that off besides Roth? But it still was not as powerful as the musical dynamic of Van Halen, despite that fact that the sum of the skill in Roth’s new band buried the sum of the skill in Van Halen.
The importance of establishing this camaraderie’s can not be overstated. Sometimes it might come naturally and sometimes it might not. Since it is my pursuit to have a kickin’ worship band at my church, this is (in a roundabout way) where I’m starting. But I’m having to take a slightly different approach than in other band’s I’ve played in.
Bed time.
Sleepy.
More to come.
Merican Music would be me.
It’s for an American Music History class at Maryville University and 50% of our grade is to write blogs on the music we’re learning about. When I learned how to add links I first added the class page. It’s maintained by the teacher, Peter Henderson, a pianist with the Saint Louis Symphony who makes me sick because he has perfect pitch and can replicate just about anything on the piano after just one listen. He’s a great teacher, but he doesn’t update his page too often. So next I added a link to other students’ blog pages, but I soon figured out that they rarely write anything interesting. So then I added links to other pages I like to frequent.
Sorry to disappoint you if you thought your secret admirer was David Geffen or a Playboy Playmate or something.
Aha! I was reading your stuff thinking that it was very interesting but couldn’t imagine who it would be. On the admin page of my blog it shows who’s linked to me and I noticed a new name so I set out to figure out who it was. Good stuff man, I just wanted the guy to write more often.
Drew! Must get in touch with you! I sent an e-mail to info@theformulakid.com and drewjohnsononline@yahoo.com, but I don’t know if those are proper addresses. Can you write me? I have a half-baked proposition for your material . . . LH