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USEFUL NOISE WHEN SKIP A ROPE IS THE SOUND OF COMFORT

August 28, 2020 by David Gillaspie

The sound of useful noise is a comfort. Some find it in a guitar, others in a piano, still more in the song they sing in the shower. No one sings Skip A Rope for comfort. It’s a mean song that’s beginning to sound like a new national anthem. Hit the link to hear it. […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: cheat, GUITAR, Joe biden, justice, liberty, lie, life, music, national anthem, parenting, parenting moment, piano, Portland, showman president, singing, skip a rope, steal, useful noise, vote, wall of dads, wall of moms

MUSIC EDUCATION MAKES A GOOD LISTENER

August 11, 2020 by David Gillaspie

From flutophone to virtuoso, music education is an essential subject. One online expert said there are two kinds of music: easy and impossible. They finished with: The path between them is called practice.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: alexander technique, breath, breathe, breathing, education, essential subject, good listener, Harvard medical school, hearing, listen, LSD, marathon, marijuana, music, smoke weed, weed, Woodstock

IT TAKES A WORRIED MAN TO SING A WORRIED SONG

August 5, 2020 by David Gillaspie

A worried man singing a worried song needs to check the lyrics first. Since they’re not carved in stone, the words change from artist to artist. But don’t worry too much, just add a few lines of your own. For example:

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: devotion, feelings, folk music, forensic music, hey joe, jimi hendrix, Love, music, neil young, Pete seeger, rock and roll, rock music, romantic, worried man, worried time

FUN TIME BALANCES REGRET AND REMORSE

July 29, 2020 by David Gillaspie

A fun time is the break in the clouds, a ray of sunshine on an otherwise darkened day. How’s that working this week? We all having a fun time yet? If not, why not? Maybe we need a new soundtrack, new songs for this space in time? (Thank you Ten Years After.)

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: cavalry, covid, devil makes three, drift, facebook, fun, fun time, mandolin orange, mental health, music, pandemic, portland protest, regret, remorse, running, Social media, songs, Tigard, twitter, washington county, wood brothers

ASMR: BETTER THAN THE SOUNDS OF SILENCE

April 22, 2020 by David Gillaspie

ASMR, autonomous sensory meridian response. If you’ve never heard of it, now you have. It may sound like something explained by science, but I don’t think so. It’s more a feeling, a feeling I call the ‘Barry White Response.’

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: asmr, Autonomous sensory meridian response., Barry white, Donna Summer, Love, loved ones, music, singing, vocal

JOHN PRINE: WORDS FOR ASMR CALM

April 17, 2020 by David Gillaspie

I heard of John Prine in 1972. This is his first album cover. He’s a guy sitting on a hay bale like it was just another day. Then he became the Mark Twain of songwriters.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: americana, asmr, autonomous sensory meridian response, Bob Dylan, calm, john prine, Mark Twain, music, prine, quiet, serene, songs, soothing, spoken word

FOREVER FRIENDS? I MEET THEM ALL THE TIME AND SO DO YOU

February 24, 2020 by David Gillaspie

Who starts the clock on forever friends? How long is forever? Lastly, if you had to repeat the same night forever with forever friends, what would you do? I don’t have answers for the first two questions, but I’ve got the last one covered. This is my forever night:

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: Ali and Frazier, forever friends, friends, friendship, homeless wrestler, lady gaga, music, play music, sing, tucker and dale

BRAGGING ABOUT COOKING SKILLS? NEVER, BUT IT STARTS WITH A DRUMBEAT

September 4, 2019 by David Gillaspie

Bragging about cooking skills is worse than listening to someone else bragging when you know you’re better. The only thing worth bragging about is keeping people out of the emergency room after eating something you cooked. I don’t brag about my cooking skills for a reason, and it’s not because I’m serving raw or burned […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: bragging, chef, cooking, food, grilling, Labor Day, matt berninger, meat, music, musicians, need my girl, ribs, sasquatch music festival, song book, the national

EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION MEANS KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE

August 17, 2019 by David Gillaspie

Have you ever tried reaching people, but instead of responding, they lay around like a bunch of logs? Effective communication says there’s two reasons for this: One, they might be logs, and two, you need to work on your presentation. Check carefully to know which is which.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: audience, Communication, communication style, effective communication, GUITAR, guitar picker, guitar player, music, play, play guitar, Woodstock

WOODIE GUTHRIE CALLED TO REMIND THE LANDLORDS

July 17, 2019 by David Gillaspie

This land is your land This land is my landFrom California to the New York island; From the red wood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and Me.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: american roots music, folk music, folk song, land, music, woodie guthrie

USEFUL NOISE WHEN SKIP A ROPE IS THE SOUND OF COMFORT

MUSIC EDUCATION MAKES A GOOD LISTENER

IT TAKES A WORRIED MAN TO SING A WORRIED SONG

ASMR: BETTER THAN THE SOUNDS OF SILENCE

JOHN PRINE: WORDS FOR ASMR CALM

FOREVER FRIENDS? I MEET THEM ALL THE TIME AND SO DO YOU

BRAGGING ABOUT COOKING SKILLS? NEVER, BUT IT STARTS WITH A DRUMBEAT

EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION MEANS KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE

WOODIE GUTHRIE CALLED TO REMIND THE LANDLORDS

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