Today was good. I can't believe it's December 1st already, but today was good. I finally got around to working on the triplet section of the "Stairway" solo. As usual with everything related to this solo, I did so slowly. It's coming around, and it felt good to actually start to hear those triplets sounding like they're actually music. In listening to the solo again, it really feels like it's slowing down a lot. Actually looking at the notes as they pass by helps a great deal. If you can see the phrasing, it's easier to translate that from your eyes to your fingers. Another day of progress. Getting closer.
So, the new Springsteen disc is amazing. There's enough of a mixture of his upbeat rockers, his ballads, and his message songs to make this his best record since The Rising . And speaking of that record... Buying The Boss the day it comes out always takes me back to a specific moment in life. It was July 30th, 2002, the year after 9/11, the year after someone on the streets of New York told Springsteen "we need you now." I had driven to Oshkosh, WI to visit some friends, when I remembered that Springsteen's disc was scheduled to come out that day. I drove downtown to The Exclusive Company, but had to park a few blocks back. At the time, there wasn't much going on downtown, but when I got out of the car, I could hear this music coming from up the block somewhere. The closer I got to Exclusive, the more it began to dawn on me, they had set up a giant set of speakers in their upstairs windows, and were blasting the new album out into the streets....
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