thoughts while listening

I think about where I was and who I was with when it was new. I get a little melancholic that I can't go back. Then I pour a little more scotch.

Albertporter, time to change the scope of your photography business?

Low resolution: Think about the music. Kind of uninvolving.

High resolution: Over-involving. Enjoyment is not in "playing tunes" but thinking about how high a quality is the recording or performance. Hard to see the music and the music does not matter so much any more.

The trick is to get a balance between the two.

I listen mostly to instrumental jazz from the mid to late 50's so I think about the musicians, how they played, and what was happening at the recording or set.

Albertporter in his post reminds me of Fiona Apple's song "Criminal." In it, she sings, "I've been a bad bad girl." She gets me with that line and I think "now there's a real woman."

I'm mentally 'air-guitaring', regardless of instument or genre. Doesn't matter if it's Hendrix, Coltrane, or Nojima!

Sorry Rok2id...now I know what you mean and I agree - there are some very strange threads here at times. Yes, and as Albert pointed out as when I play a certain song / album / disc it sends me right back to that time. There have been times when 40 years gets shoved aside just by one song...and I will recall the day the weather, freinds some now gone, or a girl friend of that time along with many other thoughts. The power of music....and just remember that we are making new memories every day with this stuff. Again sorry