Posted by bleauberry on August 15, 2011, at 17:52:25
In reply to Re: Bleauberry on steroids.....sort of. » bleauberry, posted by floatingbridge on August 14, 2011, at 16:12:24
> BB, wow. You're good.
Well thanks!
>Do you practice/play every day, even on dark days?
Probably 5 times a week, anywhere from an hour to 8 hours each time. Dark days, it is very hard to get started. Even after an hour or two it is just kind of a distraction from pain. But if I stay with, I eventually feel the spirit taking over and then it's a whole new ballgame.
Moon Candles. Here's the story behind that one. I had just tried 2 days of tramadol...usually a great antidepressant for many people. Somehow it plunged me into the deepest darkest place. It was bad. Real bad. I was almost suicidal. I forced myself to grab the guitar and just play. Distraction I guess. Instead of the usual distortion rock sound, I played clean, and lots of echo. I hit record on the recording machine, put my fingers to the neck of the guitar, and just started playing whatever was deep in me. I had never played that stuff before, no composition, no rehearsal, nothing....it just came out. That was Moon Candles. At the darkest places of the human mind. I pictured myself sitting on the moon in the dark next to some craters, gazing at the earth far away in the emptiness, with the only sign of life around me being a few candles flickering next to me.
I was also extremely depressed on the day we did Wishing For Love. The keyboardist kept pushing me to keep going. It wasn't until later I realized I played that song a lot better depressed than I did when not depressed. I think that's what people like about my stuff.....there is a great deal of human emotion in it
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> I also enjoy the keyboardist. She looks like she is enjoying herself.....She and I are quite different but yeah she is fun. She spent a week in a psych ward about 6 months ago but is now doing great on Rhodiola Rosea.
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> Thanks for sharing these.
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> :-)No, thank you for watching!
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