Saturday morning and I’m in the studio early, anxious to get to work. There are things I’d like to post on my blog but I feel like there’s a painting waiting to be released.
I think that for this Saturday morning I’ll instead show a little early Rolling Stones. At Christmas, I was talking with my nephew, who is around 30 years old, who commented on how many people he knew who were totally ignorant of the music of the Beatles and the Stones, particularly before the mid-70’s, and the great influence that both had on current pop music and culture.
For anyone from that time that is a remarkable thought because of the incredible changes that were taking place at the time and, for many, how their music was very much the soundtrack for the era. Perhaps this is hyperbole and the world would pretty much be the same without either band and their songs but I doubt it. Great change is only affected by great influence. The greater the influence, the more we are inspired to go beyond, to take what they have shown us and to synthesize and integrate it with our own voices and visions.
Growing up, listening to this song, Get Off My Cloud, was empowering. There was a sense of defiance and a sense of standing up for yourself that pulsed out of the grooves. I don’t know if it completely comes through but at the time, it played loud and strong.
Redtree Times 