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Topic: Interview with Miguel Copon in "Prepared Guitar" blog |
Susan Alcorn
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Baltimore, MD, USA
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Ken Campbell
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Ferndale, Montana
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Posted 4 May 2014 2:23 pm |
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| Pretty cool Susan. I admire your ability to articulate your art. As well as your art... |
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Susan Alcorn
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Posted 5 May 2014 11:47 am
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Thank you, Ken.
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"So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray."
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David Mason
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Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 5 May 2014 2:47 pm
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Wonderful! Expose thyself in public... repeatedly. I'm currently thinking that there just may NOT be the single, Giant Jumbo Family-Size “Breakthrough Steel Event†event – a non-cornpone movie soundtrack? Hit TV theme for ADULTS (sorry, Oh Sponged-One)?... Even should one pop up, fame & attraction are currently incredibly fickle, shallow and fleeting – remember that “Lady Gaga†thing? Eeeyew – it was so-oo 2012-ish...
So we're just left as a bunch of sneaky infidels, covertly chipping away at the castle foundations. I thought the dude's questions were a bit askew - “Why do you like steel guitar, what do you need from music(?)â€
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| “...the way the notes sustain and decay. I love the way it expresses the notes between the notes, the sounds inside the notes between the notes, the microtones, the harmonics, all through the subtle movement of the barâ€... “For me, practice is paramount, and I practice as much as I can, though “practice†is kind of a funny word. Maybe it’s that I “play†or "play/practice" as much as I can to stay in close touch with the pedal steel guitar and the music that moves me.†|
Clearly it's a hopeless addiction, does he think you're gonna bag it all and become a dental assistant if the pay's better? And now I have a whole other website to stare at for hours on end, wondering how anybody ever gets so good! For one, I know your “13 Questions†stablemate Einvind Aarest is great, stunning, fantastic - those Scan-jazz/ECM kids just plain forgot to sell out and pose for Vogue magazine. Plus, I learned a whole new groove/rut/cliche to wallow in called... “Post-Miles!† |
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chas smith R.I.P.
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Encino, CA, USA
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Posted 5 May 2014 4:19 pm
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| I would like to have collaborated with Olivier Messiaen; ... Edgar Varese ... Mercedes Sosa.... Alice Coltrane or Albert Ayler; Derek Bailey or Tony Levin; Agnes Martin or Mark Rothko; Violeta Parra or Victor Jara; Tammy Wynette or Mel Street; Jimmy Day or Joaquin Murphy. |
A serious range of brilliance. Where's the "Like" button? |
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Steve Alcott
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New York, New York, USA
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Posted 7 May 2014 9:41 am
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Susan Alcorn
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Baltimore, MD, USA
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Posted 10 May 2014 6:14 pm
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Thank you David, Chas, and Steve.
David, those two questions kind of threw me a little bit, but I think there's some method to the madness because they're questions that kind of throw you off a little - a bit like a koan. "What do you need from music?" Hmm, I don't know, but I have to say something. And for the question, "Why do you like the pedal steel guitar," in the last sentence of that paragraph I get to tell the true reason why I play the pedal steel guitar rather than the ukelele or the autoharp.
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www.susanalcorn.net
"So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray."
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