Creation, Validation and Inspiration: Part 6 VALIDATION… OR: “WHAT A PIECE OF WORK IS MAN!” Ahh, validation. The fuel that keeps us “outer-directive’s” fires stoked. Is it necessary to have validation to continue to be creative, to continue to do the work against the crushing forces of pragmatism? I wish I could answer that for…
During my recent “malaise”, there were only two things I was able to accomplish (besides being drugged into oblivion and going to a therapist twice a week): 1. Read as much Shakespeare as possible 2. Try to play the piano…badly (One of the lovely side effects of lithium is that it gives you Parkinson’s disease-like…
Ernie K-Doe had a a number one, top forty pop hit in the 1961 with the tune “Mother-in Law”….K-Doe proclaimed that it and the Star Spangled Banner were they greatest songs ever written. K-Doe also proclaimed himself “Emperor of the Universe”. Need I say more? A true New Orleans Care-Rackter if there ever was one…….
As a teen-aged, aspiring piano player in the great frozen tundra known as Skaneateles, NY, I used to take a 35 mile bus ride into the city of Syracuse every Saturday morning to visit Onondaga Music. Onondaga Music was owned by a rather sour faced man by the name of Howard Gurseny, Sr. Completely bald,…