July 24ths

7/24/2010       
     
On retro digitalization:

The pursuit of retro seems to be a longing for nostalgia, which may mean that generally, people feel adrift with new technology and want to return to simplicity. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it, but it seems somewhat odd to want to return to something you never experienced in its native form, such as vinyl. I have lots of vinyl that I purchased in the 70s and I don’t want to revisit the flaws any more than listening to 78s. It’s like saying I want to go back home to Virginia, and you never lived there. More like time travel than actual traveling.   

7/24/2023

Interesting: How instrumentalists’ personalities affect how they play. I always thought Percy Jones was the better player than Jaco. Percy seemed more stable and interesting and never moved for hours on stage.

7/24/2024 

John Mayall died at age 90. Right after I watched the Biden speech, I watched Eric Clapton’s elegy and was also very moving. I was also raised on the blues. One of my first albums was the Bluesbreakers “Beano” album. Looking back, my real roots in Chicago are the Blues. The first bass line I learned was a blues bass line.