Rock and Roll Magic
What do you like?
I like many things.
What about music?
I like all kinds.
I've been to the opera, ballet, classical, country, gypsy, and
Mozart in Vienna.
Can't say I prefer one over the other; they’re all just different
and amazing in their time and place, that's all.
Rock and Roll is art and takes skill, genius, and imagination—
same as Mozart, Beethoven, and all the rest of them… maybe
even more so.
How's that so?
'Cause the musicians have to make amazing instrumentals and
vocals all the while acting like they are playing around under all
those flashing lights and appearing as if they’re barely paying
attention to their instruments.
Rock and Rollers are serious performers. When you get close
to them on the stage, your clothes pulse from the power of their
sounds. They are soaked in sweat and their finger tips are
bandaged to keep them from bleeding as they chop away at
metal guitar strings. Drummer's arms are taut and sinewy after
decades of pounding.
When the bass player and lead guitarist look towards the singer
and move close to one another to jam, there is a kind of human
closeness that you don’t see in other types of music, and, I think
this is when Rock and Roll is really happening.
I like many things.
What about music?
I like all kinds.
I've been to the opera, ballet, classical, country, gypsy, and
Mozart in Vienna.
Can't say I prefer one over the other; they’re all just different
and amazing in their time and place, that's all.
Rock and Roll is art and takes skill, genius, and imagination—
same as Mozart, Beethoven, and all the rest of them… maybe
even more so.
How's that so?
'Cause the musicians have to make amazing instrumentals and
vocals all the while acting like they are playing around under all
those flashing lights and appearing as if they’re barely paying
attention to their instruments.
Rock and Rollers are serious performers. When you get close
to them on the stage, your clothes pulse from the power of their
sounds. They are soaked in sweat and their finger tips are
bandaged to keep them from bleeding as they chop away at
metal guitar strings. Drummer's arms are taut and sinewy after
decades of pounding.
When the bass player and lead guitarist look towards the singer
and move close to one another to jam, there is a kind of human
closeness that you don’t see in other types of music, and, I think
this is when Rock and Roll is really happening.
© 2007 by Michael Domino
by Michael Domino
Foghat Concert
Gramercy Theater
East 23rd St.
Manhattan, NY
Feb 8, 2008
Foghat Concert
Gramercy Theater
East 23rd St.
Manhattan, NY
Feb 8, 2008
