A True Musician
A true musician is hopelessly hooked on the magic of the performance … We play because we must. Logic has long since been abandoned … there is no better action, there is no higher high, there is no deeper love … Though you may not always catch the ‘Bright Elusive Butterfly’, on those wonderful nights when you do, the vibrations in the room are so thick you can almost reach out and touch them. Both a curse and a blessing, nothing else compares … nothing else.
—The Deacon
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This article appears in Jun 25 – Jul 1, 2015.
Horse Manure! Music isn’t a drug but an art with many gifts in addition to getting “high” in front of an audience. The Deacon may “get off” on performing but there are plenty of true musicians who EMBRACE his abandoned logic to plumb the depths of music’s mathematics, emotional rewards, discovery and invention but do so far from the madding crowd. Just maybe not so many in Tucson, where everyone boasts of being “world-class” without ever having ventured beyond the Old Pueblo.
However telling someone else what they feel or what they know about how they are when creating music is extremely narrow minded. Agree with you on the part of many Tucson Musicians firmly believing they are world class having never ventured outside of Southern Arizona. Music “Is” and Art and for some folks it can be a drug, and can be their fix, and the primary way in which they express themselves. Be Open Minded…….there is no right or wrong answer here. What would I know I’ve only been performing since I was 19…………..61 in a few days and I’ve played all over the country.