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From: BluesGe~ol.com
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 03:15:05 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: Why Get Into Music?

There certainly is a lot of adulation that comes with music performance, and
I believe that inherent in that is a sexual power. You are the dominant male
(if you are a male performer). And who doesn't welcome the attention of the
opposite sex? Now, in night club performance, you essentially have a bunch of
young ladies wiggling around not two feet in from of you, who wouldn't give
anyone as scruffy-looking as you the time of day, if they saw you walking
down the street. But here you are, the king of the club. Pretty hard not to
notice that. My wife has noticed, too, and that's why I have to "plan ahead"
if I want to get out to the gig on time. (Smart woman, she knows I won't get
very far on an empty tank of gas.)

Of course that's not all there is to it. To me, it has a lot to do with
emotional expression and trying to create something, to bring something out
from inside and have that come to bear on the audience and other performers.
There is also the personal growth of musical development.

I also think that one's religious identity may have something to do with the
value of the experience. On Saturday night, Joanne Taylor (just turned 53)
told her audience, "I've got a gift from God. And I think I'm using it pretty
damn good."

I'll leave you with one last story. (Warning: Adult Content :)

I was playing a gig at the Blue Manitou in Colorado, when this lady named
Mona (of all things) invites me over to her table. She says, "Do you do that
with your lips or with your tongue?" I said, "A little of both, until I get
it right."

So, Mona drops her head to the table. I told her, "Look if you like it so
much, I teach harmonica, and I could show you how to do it."

She said in reply, "I just want to have it done."

(And no, Ron, I didn't.)

- -dave