tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70230829091550672162012-01-22T15:41:18.171-07:00Prayer in Tonea meditationsquishnoreply@blogger.comBlogger521100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023082909155067216.post-82496480462539014892010-12-21T06:00:00.002-07:002010-12-21T06:00:12.917-07:00This has been a year of living and a year of dying. Two thousand and ten began with as many questions as there would be question askers if you can understand my line of thought! I'm afraid I'm having trouble with this string of consciousness as well, if you get my drift... Ahem. And as you can surmise there has been no news lately on this blog, as the writer has taken a powder. Shame! The year squishnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023082909155067216.post-75850434951480737412010-06-21T13:24:00.000-06:002010-06-21T13:24:13.736-06:00As the Biennial of the Americas "Celebration" begins, I must say there has been no feedback whatsoever about the event its self in greater Denver and the surrounding metro area. There has been a lack of coordination. The press releases have been flying!squishnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023082909155067216.post-12867567230730555192010-06-21T12:39:00.000-06:002010-06-21T12:39:35.583-06:00As you can see this is the new public blogging web site. And I've added new media player which will be the official "radio" station for the prayer! Thanks for listening and for your enduring patience!squishnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023082909155067216.post-75775151294625223122010-04-11T11:55:00.001-06:002010-04-11T11:55:58.646-06:00is there a problem here too?squishnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023082909155067216.post-50691421065527889342010-02-22T10:04:00.002-07:002010-02-22T10:40:54.599-07:00Reboot. This blog is so far behind the times it's become almost an anchor around the unconscious neck. The city is under a hazy spell and if these dispensaries don't get organized soon, the independent power of all the growers will go away, and go to places like Pfizer or some other corporation like ADM. This is ground zero for growers all over Colorado. How about art and culture? The city is squishnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023082909155067216.post-47883180762513492202009-12-28T18:18:00.000-07:002009-12-28T18:19:07.888-07:00asblt#50http://squish1964.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=563637squishnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023082909155067216.post-74382837018274602882009-01-21T08:28:00.001-07:002009-01-21T08:30:16.181-07:00About a decade or so ago Andrei Codrescu wrote about the wonders of the internet in communication and commerce. Yet at the time he wasn't satisfied with how artists, writers, musicians or creative types where utilizing the new medium. Whether his opinion is true or not is debatable. Marketing still has strong representation here, and is put out there and organized by artists, musicians and squishnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023082909155067216.post-52916448599092204682009-01-06T08:33:00.000-07:002009-01-06T08:34:25.356-07:00a short but long trip #43:It's short and sweet... in and out... slowly..squishnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023082909155067216.post-89075368724140341502008-12-15T18:16:00.002-07:002008-12-15T18:42:46.645-07:00No doubt about it, I've had a very rough year. It's going to get rougher so here goes. First off, a short but long trip number forty two is now out. It goes to show that one should plan ahead. This must be the sign of the times, the economy dose not matter. Though out these eight long years, scandal has almost lost it's sting. The society seems to be marching toward some sort of legal anarchy. squishnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023082909155067216.post-52306913452304350382008-07-21T11:02:00.003-06:002008-07-21T12:54:12.991-06:00Four years ago there was a air of anticipation with the announcement of the arrival of the Democratic National Convention to Denver, Colorado. Today a mixed bag of feelings are churning through out the city and state in general. Denverites were promised commercial opportunity even though most of those are going to outside international corporate business, witnessed a terrorist attack training squishnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023082909155067216.post-30380198118995282972008-06-26T10:46:00.001-06:002008-06-26T10:48:56.017-06:00Here is a poem from a high school student in Ann Arbor Mich. it goes like this...Them? Ahem!All right.squishnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023082909155067216.post-68187718140271119922008-06-20T10:01:00.002-06:002008-06-20T10:05:50.005-06:00Where Were YouNo Time Leftthe king and iTired and PoorThe Trouble With KidOnly now.squishnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023082909155067216.post-5372092327171505252008-04-01T00:08:00.000-06:002008-04-01T00:15:15.296-06:00Britney Spears is "Dancing With The Fools"go to this!squishnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023082909155067216.post-52682184661793645892008-03-31T20:08:00.000-06:002008-03-31T20:10:17.679-06:00Unable to SpeakDead-LineAscensionI wonder why I do this....squishnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023082909155067216.post-32287523585565134072007-12-09T11:16:00.000-07:002007-12-09T12:47:29.704-07:00
I just learned on the Sun Ra mailing list that Karlheinz Stockhausen died on December 5, 2007. The band I play in pw3 has played a piece we've called "The Golden Tone", a piece at least inspired by him. I know Stockhausen's name but I'm not familiar with his music. Stockhausen wasted his final years articulating racist points of view and acting like a megalomaniac. Yet his is the kind of squishnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023082909155067216.post-46932603838459427012007-11-05T10:24:00.000-07:002007-11-05T11:36:53.755-07:00A day before election. lynnxe and I are going to drop our mail in ballots later on today. The city government is asking for "improvements in the infrastructure". I gave a mixed message on my ballot. I'll only give a couple of examples. 1H, funding symphony hall and the natural history museum. I was tempted to vote no, matching private funds are a nice perk but, private money should also be a nicesquishnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023082909155067216.post-40608823089064636172007-09-24T11:08:00.000-06:002007-09-24T11:16:32.417-06:00School is back in full force for students and summer is fast fading into the past. Where I work the music instrument rentals are now taking up most if not all the resources through out the system. Here is a podcast to celebrate this time of the year. The worlds of parents, kids and teachers are now colliding and causing entertaining confusion and frustration as well.... Yes!squishnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023082909155067216.post-49053655924444093882007-08-12T17:25:00.000-06:002007-08-12T22:38:48.009-06:00Lines everywhere...squishnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023082909155067216.post-12555514433043360952007-07-08T09:16:00.000-06:002007-07-10T08:24:41.043-06:00I'm confused. On one hand from my perspective, the culture in general seems sick, anemic and lost versus pop culture which has commerce on its side, the later seems robust and center of conversation in the nation. Are my feelings about this valid? I'm a product of the great American public school system. I can't write, I can't read, I don't do math well and I'm not even that great of a musician. squishnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023082909155067216.post-23102715987226682322007-07-01T12:09:00.000-06:002007-07-01T13:42:54.662-06:00Earlier this week, Guitar Center was sold to a private equity investment firm named Bain Capital Partners, LLC, for 2.1 billion dollars which includes G.C.'s assumed debt. Guitar Center includes Musicians Friend, Music & Arts Center and the newly acquired Woodwind & Brasswind. The interesting thing about this is the fact that G.C. is owned by Marty Albertson, and Bain Capital was founded and squishnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023082909155067216.post-11546195063981760362007-06-24T23:15:00.001-06:002007-06-24T23:15:43.498-06:00Anticipation.squishnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023082909155067216.post-90912931404546744702007-06-13T22:01:00.000-06:002007-06-20T00:09:35.332-06:00I've discovered someone new to me on the blog a sphere. His name is Jan Chipchase and the blog is future perfect, he is a human behavioral researcher for the Nokia Research Center (NRC). He posted an article that caught my eye. I'll give it to you here menu items for literate vs. non-literate people, and here most interesting is the number of illiterate adults according to the UN is approximatelysquishnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023082909155067216.post-68020532197820522302007-05-28T14:28:00.000-06:002007-05-30T23:06:55.644-06:00More and more conversations with fellow former record store employees have focused on what form of format will there be in the future. CD? DVD? Down loadable music or video? Who knows? It's hard to believe that in 1989, almost twenty years ago, I had never seen a compact disc in my life. Slowly as the next decade wore on certain titles were being deleted (cut out) and made available only on squishnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023082909155067216.post-83684700110792317352007-05-22T00:09:00.000-06:002007-05-22T00:14:18.688-06:00 randomsquishnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023082909155067216.post-53677292599484339012007-05-15T00:14:00.000-06:002007-05-15T00:23:51.396-06:00It's here! The answer to all our prayers! Queen said, "Scaramouch! Scaramouch! Will you do the fandango!" Yes! They will do the fanDANGo!photo by lynnxe.squishnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023082909155067216.post-10843361865403772412007-05-13T10:10:00.000-06:002007-05-13T10:34:14.428-06:00Well, I have a new horn and I'm playing in a couple of community groups. I've double booked myself for the 20th and I haven't been able to resolve the dress rehearsals for both groups. The groups are Slide Rule Trombone Choir in Highlands Ranch, and the CCBA (Colorado Community Band Association). I need to practice my parts and start getting with it!squishnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023082909155067216.post-77618036414963944322007-04-16T12:14:00.000-06:002007-04-16T14:08:55.034-06:00I've been watching "The Tim and Eric Totally Awesome Show, Good Job!" lately. It gives me great joy that I'm not the only weirdo in the world that believes that a nice linear sense to reality is grossly overrated. Or that our subconscious and inner selves is a place of harmony and peace, and that insanity is always a breath away. We all know about the conflict inside of all of us. I'm not talkingsquishnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023082909155067216.post-54654265173064541752007-04-08T17:34:00.000-06:002007-04-08T21:07:13.478-06:00I'm listening to Eric Dolphy right now. "You Don't Know What Love Is" it's on the "Last Date" recording. His flute playing is clear and wide, with this hollowness.squishnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023082909155067216.post-78558563097288449372007-04-02T13:24:00.000-06:002007-04-02T15:30:07.390-06:00My ears have been reopening to the classics, or what the commercial music world would term the classics. It means I've been listening to composers like Chopin, Schubert, Vivaldi, to the more esoteric and twentieth century ones like Cage, Reich, and Satie. There is a huge divide between the pop music world and the "legit" world. I've had conversations about this divide, and with every conversationsquishnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023082909155067216.post-42491658527014482752007-03-25T17:20:00.000-06:002007-03-25T17:22:32.119-06:00From somewhere else.... 01/25/06Stuart Dempster is one of my favorite trombonists. When I was in college I read one of his books "The Modern Trombone: A Definition of Its Idioms", in it I found several ways I could stretch my imagination in the art of playing and performing the trombone. He is a pioneer in playing unaccompanied, and advanced the use of multi-phonics on the instrument taking it tosquishnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023082909155067216.post-1769919543436329622007-03-11T22:40:00.000-06:002007-03-11T22:43:45.364-06:00Weird that daylight savings is this early. Seven AM, no sun. Three weeks early and the reasoning seems just fine for Ben Franklin, but what about those dreaded morning haters sucking down more coffee than usual, surely be grouchy. The day is longer, yea!With the day gone and time wasted I wish I could be more of a brave soul. I keep marching on and on. Forever forward. I guess I couldn't stay squishnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023082909155067216.post-3968498052989600122007-02-26T10:01:00.000-07:002007-03-25T17:26:05.230-06:00Last week a friend of mine got a rude awakening with the CSO concerning the show at Gallery One. It all began when she went to Boettcher to see the show and found all the art had been removed from the walls. All of this without notice, and the work was not packed properly, they were apparently laid unattended in the hallway (Imagine a musicians instrument laying the same way). Highly squishnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023082909155067216.post-29336964733585667922007-02-17T08:12:00.000-07:002007-02-17T08:25:02.929-07:00This was my office a few years ago. I'm missing it alot right now. Soon the fortress will be behind me, and home will be in my future. This year I hope. Meanwhile long prayerful tones. Rose bell.squishnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023082909155067216.post-7719687204680809182007-02-04T15:47:00.000-07:002007-02-04T16:14:46.693-07:00Filmed in New York, to p w 3squishnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023082909155067216.post-6161478184755788112007-01-28T12:19:00.001-07:002007-03-06T23:32:34.785-07:00Katie Taft and Self Made had another special event with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra and visual artists showing at Gallery One at Boettcher Concert Hall. Unfortunately, I missed most of the artist talk. It was well attended though, and there wasn't really as much time for me to look at the art. The program featured American composers played chronologically in the first part of the concert. squishnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023082909155067216.post-59301403116449812752007-01-22T10:32:00.000-07:002007-01-22T10:48:06.151-07:00First off, something new. How was your morning? As I pour lukewarm coffee into a small diner coffee cup. Above is a silver discovery, "Taylor & Horn" Chicago. ?? Silver, with brass slide stockings. Long tones everyone. Long tones.squishnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023082909155067216.post-7682499911593477932006-12-23T01:03:00.000-07:002006-12-23T02:23:21.844-07:00Journeys both inside and out, always begins with a search for kindred spirits. Perhaps we looking for creative types, smart people. Who knows? I actually like finding crank pots, weirdos and shut ins's. We should live by the motto: "It's not the equipment that does the magic, it's the equipment user." Ironic applause please. It's a roasted chicken. Not a chocolate banana. But fit to use, not the squishnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023082909155067216.post-43961625392998317232006-12-11T23:12:00.000-07:002006-12-11T23:33:31.525-07:00Why am I restless? Music is for hearing. Or do you wish to read this? Do you hear? I have nothing to give. I've just been running away, and really just doing nothing. What's going on here? I don't know. And even another blog running automatically, if you call my life as being automatic. Blah. Blah. Blah, blah , blah.squishnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023082909155067216.post-17661287968437221362006-12-06T23:36:00.000-07:002006-12-25T10:46:15.493-07:00I've been preoccupied lately. It has been pleasant. A long tone, eight beats. Rest. Play the same tone, half the length. Choose another tone, try going up. Any interval you wish. I like one quarter tone. Time passes and we fall into a trance. Long time coming.squishnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023082909155067216.post-30201729694672736932006-12-04T20:57:00.000-07:002006-12-04T21:20:32.204-07:00I'm lucky. Yamaha YSL-646 Serial #012920 8 1/2" Bell. Just repaired, has a new slide. It still sounds okay. Looks okay. The bell is a little close to the slide. That's okay too. I'm accepting my need to play my horn more and more. And I'm enjoying it more than feeling obligated. Good. I'm shopping for a horn with a larger bore size. .547". Something like that. I've been looking at Olds, King and squishnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023082909155067216.post-47197527070059530792006-12-03T07:53:00.000-07:002006-12-03T14:30:52.756-07:00A new beginning. A repaired past. I regret everything, and at the same time I've learned. I don't want to die. I don't want to waste my life.The sun is shining and I feel better.Now off to the doctor,both physical and mental.Perhaps I will be healthyand insane.squishnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023082909155067216.post-6971707337687888072006-11-21T23:03:00.000-07:002006-11-21T23:22:39.809-07:00I can't keep it inside. The bell is done. I keep wanting to see the old bell, it hurts so much. I know it won't be the same. Ever. It's coming back to me even so. And I'll be able to play. You cannot undo the past. This piece of knowledge is weighing heavy on my mind right now. It's probably going to suck.squishnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023082909155067216.post-68808065118160844652006-11-19T12:26:00.000-07:002006-11-19T13:12:47.365-07:00The man is dead. Again pouring my heart into my horn, and the need to play more is almost tearing me apart. At first I couldn't perform, the waves of emotion seem to drown me. As I continued though it became easier, and it all began to evaporate out the bell. Good. The mind still runs thru all the possibilities. Curses the mind! Talking to myself, talking to him. "Why now?" I realize there is a squishnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023082909155067216.post-80030583374841876102006-11-15T20:45:00.000-07:002007-07-30T13:20:24.570-06:00Thank you love.with uke:G7taking the journey to the very bottomCcan be a form of lies.G7going to the bathroom and to ever lovin'Cyou must be a berry buys...Athen you have fruit to take awayFthat's when you need to shit the bayG7lovin' the man with a kookie cottonChe's not going to be a packG7we know that there is something rottenCgive me a cigaretG7yepCyepshout:hey!squishnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023082909155067216.post-31494278388946948392006-11-14T23:11:00.000-07:002006-11-15T20:12:14.183-07:00I tried to practice on my lunch break at work today. Couldn't concentrate, looking at some tunes in the "Top Tunes book one Bass instruments edition". No good. I went to the piano, and I played along with the iPod. Not inspiring. Finished lunch. Sat at my bench at work, and I kept hearing sounds behind me above my head near the shelves, a creaking noise. Am I going crazy? Now I'm home and sad.squishnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023082909155067216.post-11753356903814078442006-11-13T00:56:00.000-07:002006-11-13T01:24:33.068-07:00F.E. Olds Recording trombone, serial number: 39375. 7 1/2" rose bell, fluted slide. Lovely tone. With an ornate engraving. Matthew Rose directed me to play at his opening, "Spelling With Scissors" at CAPSULE GALLERY'S final show. Much thanks to lynnxe for such a great run. And the amazing work she put into setting up and promoting this show.Watch the film of this event. Even though I was fatiguedsquishnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023082909155067216.post-22166243563385555502006-11-06T10:37:00.000-07:002006-11-13T01:53:19.487-07:00Finally healing. Played "All Souls Day". Welcoming back all the great souls of the earth (If they exist) Rattling, blowing my chops out. Going all the way with each piece. Hearing and feeling rhythm. Took my broken bell to wait for someone to fix it. Scared that it can't be fixed. Proof of how big an idiot I can be. I want my horn back.squishnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023082909155067216.post-67517341537182708272006-11-05T10:06:00.001-07:002006-11-06T10:28:49.803-07:00Two weeks of playing and listening. Concert band on one side, rock and improvisation on the other. Very good. Not perfect, but very good. Finding more music and putting a toe back into reading etudes. I'm loving etudes again.squishnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023082909155067216.post-8581822895489583812006-10-29T12:35:00.000-07:002006-11-05T12:42:53.597-07:00My ears are openMy mind is open right nowListen to my heart.squishnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023082909155067216.post-69738672379794362032006-10-24T23:05:00.000-06:002006-10-24T23:06:05.820-06:00There is a time when you just have to put the horn together, and leave it there. Available. Sometimes you find yourself manipulating the sound of the horn electronically, and only a choir of children can overcome it. Listen.squishnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023082909155067216.post-19475329235119572082006-10-24T08:39:00.001-06:002006-10-24T08:39:20.422-06:00Holy crap! I forgot a recoding session! Damn it all. I played all of last week and now zip!squishnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023082909155067216.post-30345549872947655092006-10-23T13:54:00.000-06:002006-10-23T23:10:03.527-06:00Hello to my fellow artists. Long tones are good for you. How a musician approaches the first note of the day is the most important note they will encounter. I like to begin with low B flat. A free buzz without the mouthpiece, then a long low buzz into my current Vincent Bach trombone mouthpiece which is a 6 1/2 AL. I'm still without my Yamaha 646 with a trigger. I'm still trying to get the bell squishnoreply@blogger.com0