A Lot Of That Worked Itself Out

I Still Feel Like If I Can Get A Song To Work With, Say, A Basic Beat, A Rhythm, Some Chord Changes, And A Melody, A Vocal Melody - If It Works With That, Then I Feel It's Written And There's Something There.

You Can Know Or Not Know How A Car Runs And Still Enjoy Riding In A Car.

Technology Has Altered The Way Music Sounds, How It’s Composed And How We Experience It. It Has Also Flooded The World With Music. The World Is Awash With (mostly) Recorded Sounds. We Used To Have To Pay For Music Or Make It Ourselves; Playing, Hearing And Experiencing It Was Exceptional, A Rare And Special Experience. Now Hearing It Is Ubiquitous, And Silence Is The Rarity That We Pay For And Savor.

As I Define It, Rock And Roll Is Dead. The Attitude Isn't Dead, But The Music Is No Longer Vital. It Doesn't Have The Same Meaning. The Attitude, Though, Is Still Very Much Alive - And It Still Informs Other Kinds Of Music.

Punk. . .was More A Kind Of Do-it-yourself, Anyone-can-do-it Attitude. If You Only Played Two Notes On The Guitar, You Could Figure Out A Way To Make A Song Out Of That, And That's What It Was All About.