always makes me think…
Wrapping gifts always gets me to thinking of past Christmases, those who are not with us anymore for whatever reason. Those who have passed away, those who are not part of the “local” family anymore due to relationship failures and so on… It really gets me in a retrospective, melancholy mood.
There’s a song in there somewhere but I hate doing sad songs…
D
Merry Christmas everybody! Peace and Goodwill!!
There’s a song in there somewhere but I hate doing sad songs…
As small as the musical community is up here, it’s getting smaller at an alarming rate…
Non of us like to see them go and fewer of us like to be the ones who remain…
It was this time last year that we lost one of our Blues guys…
Dutch Mason…
He was awarded an Order-of-Canada citation for his contributations to the Music Community of Canada…
The Dutch Mason Ledgend
Bill…
Merry Christmas Dub, go ahead and write the sad tune bud, without the sad tunes we wouldn’t have happy tunes.
Quote: (Dubious @ Dec. 24 2008, 6:56 PM)
Wrapping gifts always gets me to thinking of past Christmases, those who are not with us anymore for whatever reason. Those who have passed away, those who are not part of the "local" family anymore due to relationship failures and so on... It really gets me in a retrospective, melancholy mood.
There's a song in there somewhere but I hate doing sad songs...
D
Merry Christmas everybody! Peace and Goodwill!!
Yeah, I feel that one with you D. I'm not one for sad songs either. I don't like sad films or TV either.
My wife says I should get in touch with my emotional side but I think I already am which is why I don't like sad stuff :-(
Memories are good though.
i dunno. i like sad songs every once in a while. http://soundclick.com/share?songid=6461398
It just so happens I'm going for the ultimate sad song - been writing it for two days now. Gonna be hilarious!
An appropriate topic for me to address, since I just got back from the funeral home. My number one running-around buddy back in the day, died just prior to Christmas from hepatitis after a liver transplant. He moved to Chattanooga back in the mid-80s, and I hadn’t seen him since. Accidentally ran into his Dad back 5 or 6 years ago and was told to come on over that Saturday, because Gary would be in. Didn’t make it for some reason I can’t recall, but I’m sure wasn’t THAT important. I’ve been regretting that all weekend, as well as the failure to just stay in touch. I probably should have stuck around for the funeral, but just couldn’t get myself to do it. Anyway, it’s left me with the desire to write something, but there’s just such a swirl of emotions, I don’t know what might come out.
Sorry to hear that Kev.
He was the kind of guy who never had a bad thing to say about anyone, but everyone knew better than to mess with him. He wasn’t a musician, but we listened to a lot of good music through the two sets of Mind Blower speakers he installed in his Pontiac LeMans. Cruising the backroads, drinking, partaking of whatever happened to be floating around at the time. Driving to Nashville for a rock concert every now and then. And he was a very good hunter, whereas with me, you were lucky if I didn’t shoot your dog by accident. In a lot of ways, we didn’t have much in common other than living across the circle from each other, and of course, loving to listen to loud music. We sure had a lot of good times though.
Kev - very sorry man.
Hi Kev,
Sorry to hear it bud. I lost a good friend several years ago. It was a real “wake-up and smell the coffee” event for me. I miss the rascal still…
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Yea Kev - it’s tough man - this year was the first Christmas without my son Nathan. I went out to his grave, danced on it and made a smiley face in the snow. Not for him - for me.
So you do what you need for you. Get what you can of your feelings out. Mine was “Enter Into His Rest” a thing I posted a while back.
Raw emotion like this can be a very creative thing. Not that that makes any difference.