"...drumming is simply not sufficiently expressive to be a memory technology. Perhaps drumming is to the rest of music as clocks are to computer memories. Custodians of the tempo rather than the contents of the historical storytelling."
A drummer-writer taking an avenue you didn't: During a prehistory delve I came up with a probably-unfalsifiable idea I like a lot, and it's flint-knapping -> drumming -> dancing -> music, as a precursor to language. Like first collective entrainment, and those signals carrying increasingly complex semantics, until discrete spoken symbols show up and become symbols.
Have to pile on a me-too: My first time seeing Buddy Guy was mid-late 2000s. He opened for George Thorogood, who I came to hear. I didn't know who Buddy Guy was. 5 minutes or less into Buddy's set, I didn't care whether Thorogood showed up or not.
I just wanted to say this is one of my favorite pieces of yours. I loved it and it really moved me. Thank you.
"...drumming is simply not sufficiently expressive to be a memory technology. Perhaps drumming is to the rest of music as clocks are to computer memories. Custodians of the tempo rather than the contents of the historical storytelling."
A drummer-writer taking an avenue you didn't: During a prehistory delve I came up with a probably-unfalsifiable idea I like a lot, and it's flint-knapping -> drumming -> dancing -> music, as a precursor to language. Like first collective entrainment, and those signals carrying increasingly complex semantics, until discrete spoken symbols show up and become symbols.
That’s a fascinating idea, thanks for sharing it.
I love buddy guy. One of my favorite albums of all time is buddy guy and jr wells, ‘drinking tnt and smoking dynamite’
Have to pile on a me-too: My first time seeing Buddy Guy was mid-late 2000s. He opened for George Thorogood, who I came to hear. I didn't know who Buddy Guy was. 5 minutes or less into Buddy's set, I didn't care whether Thorogood showed up or not.