Postby CPS » Wed Apr 18, 2012 8:27 am
Great philosophy - very "Kenny Werner" about mistakes etc. It's funny I had a flashback to about 2004/ 2005 when I first got an IPod and had this clinic on and was walking home from my drum lesson (might've been the Germany one actually... No it was both back to back... sorry stream of consciousness or what???) and was at a point in my development where I could NOT work out the Garibaldi stuff let alone the poly stuff... The concept of thinking in claves hit me hard took a time to gestate and that's why I rave about DiCenso's book (totally agree with the Werner quote "it takes ten years for a lesson to sink in" or something alone those lines).
Either way, it's a real convergence of mindset for me. If I remember correctly (which I don't that well, because this was a time just before or just after I stopped getting "high" much like Vinnie's BD... I wish someone had videos of clinics etc when Vinnie's in "Bill Hicks/ Richard Pryor" mode, I love those moments in life when you're present and stuff like that spills out... Both my grandads and my dad are like that, real dry and spontaneous... I aspire to be half of that!!!!) back when I first heard this I was bandless and started shedding hard.... Then in late '06 when I thought I was the shit cos I knew some odd times and polys I went to Bob Armstrong and got a reality check and had to shed harder hahaha!!!
Before this turns into an essay, long story short I'm at the same kinda place, digesting 3 teachers' worth of concepts (hooked up with Andy Leask for a few months for some pure Moeller so feel very blessed), but I have a practice space/ single room paid up for six months, I've deleted my Facebook to stop getting distracted, I'm living in London now and can jump on the bus and have a "night off" and go to a jam night instead of shedding and listening to this (like someone else said) in a self reflective way realising how much I've come along, it makes me very excited (maybe that's the cappucino I "inhaled!!!" my one vice) and greatful (nice when that happens in a no-bullshit way... not to rag on stuff like The Secret but a lot of people force it and it's my opinion that if that shit's true, you can't fool the Universe) for the place I'm at and like Mr Sucherman would say able to invest in me and not "2 or 3 other knuckleheads..." (and boy have I been doing that too much for the past couple of years) Now I've just got 3 hrs to kill before I can get to my practice space!
P.S. this DID turn into an essay..... sorry, I blame the coffee haha!
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