From jackoverfull@gmail.com Sun Feb 17 05:39:41 2013
Subject:Re: OT: Times change

What scares me off is that i'm one of the youngest members of this group.

What relieve me a bit is that actually at least many youngsters are quite receptive to "good music" once they get a chance to discover it…Often get a lot of questions and compliments from kids after a concert. Usually they're brought about by their parents, look quite bored at the start of the concert and gradually change attitude. And next time we play they are back, perhaps on their own, maybe with friends.

Il giorno 17/feb/2013, alle ore 14.34, j a ha scritto:

> Jack: You pretty much got the point of my original post exactly. The culture has changed... and is still changing. It's interesting to me that you're one of the youngest members of this group, and yet made the observation that you did.
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> Subject: Re: [CWSG] OT: Times change
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> I'd like to add something to the topic...
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> First, bear in mind I'm 25 but living in a family where everyone is or
> has been a musician, some even professionally.
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> At parties it happens now and then that there is a piano or a
> keyboard, something I always do then is, at certain point, to sit
> behind it and play for everybody, also singing. Nothing special, but
> always great fun.
> Well, usually everybody around my age find the thing VERY UNUSUAL.
> they DO have fun but it seems that the culture of doing something else
> than drinking and engaging in idle talk at parties no longer exists.
>
> Or perhaps I've just been at the wrong parties, who knows? ;)
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> Il giorno 17/feb/2013, alle ore 13.43, "Simon Beck" simon@alphabeck.co.uk
> > ha scritto:
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> > My elder son Thomas (13) took up guitar about a year ago (his own
> > idea, after I showed him how to play some simple stuff on bass), and
> > he is on the way to becoming a fine blues player, with an emphasis
> > on acoustic Delta blues and folk-blues material as well as
> > mainstream rock and pop. He has also taught himself some piano (he
> > really likes playing my Nord Electro 3). He has yet to join or form
> > a band, but we have fun jamming, and it's great having another
> > instrument enthusiast around the house.
> >
> > Oh, and we have a great little independent music shop in our London
> > suburb of Penge - Twang Guitars. They have a good stock of new and
> > second-hand acoustics, electrics, basses and amps, the occasional
> > Fender Rhodes piano(!) and guitar accessories. They also have an in-
> > house luthiery/repair facility, a recording studio and they even
> > offer music lessons. If you are in or near south-east London, check
> > them out.
> >
> > http://www.twangguitars.com/
> >
> > Simon Beck
> > London, UK
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: zakemo@AOL.com
> > To: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
> > Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2013 2:35 AM
> > Subject: Re: [CWSG] OT: Times change
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> > I agree with some of what you're saying but I don't think all is
> > lost. I
> > passed on to my kids the love of creating music. My son, Zak, went
> > on to
> > start and play in his own band after being in mine. Used to bring
> > tears to my
> > eyes at a gig to hear a wailing guitar solo and look over and
> > remember/realize, "That's my boy!" Kinda falls on us to pass the
> > torch so to speak.
> > Alas, "Mom and Pop" everything is all but gone. That's why it's up
> > to Mom and
> > Pop at home to make sure the music lives on. I'll bet there are
> > others in
> > this group that are doing or have done the same, yeah? ORF Bob
> >
> > In a message dated 2/16/2013 5:26:54 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
> > hammond321@yahoo.com writes:
> >
> > But it occurred to me that there is a kind of sad and serious side to
> > this, and that is of an aspect of family and social life that is
> > rapidly fading
> > away, if it hasn't already. That aspect is of social and familial
> > (non-professional) involvement with the creation and performance of
> > music.
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