A great finale teaches us that endings are not failures. They are necessary. They give shape to the chaos. And when the final chord rings out and fades into the air, we are left not with emptiness, but with the echo of what was beautiful.
So go ahead. Play that last note. Hold it. Let it ring. And then, enjoy the silence.
A great finale teaches us that endings are not failures. They are necessary. They give shape to the chaos. And when the final chord rings out and fades into the air, we are left not with emptiness, but with the echo of what was beautiful.
So go ahead. Play that last note. Hold it. Let it ring. And then, enjoy the silence. make music finale
One of the problems of running The Rare Record Club is the ones that got away. One of my greatest ambitions was to put the classic Rendell-Carr Quintet albums Shades Of Blue and Dusk Fire back onto the black stuff. Sadly, this was thwarted by the company that owns this material declining to license them. As many readers will know, these albums issu…
The influence of hallucinogenic drugs had begun to be felt in ultra-hip musical circles from the start of the 60s, but it wasn’t until 1965 that it became explicit. Future Doors drummer John Densmore (see interview, page 54) joined a band named The Psychedelic Rangers that spring, ubiquitous Hollywood scenester Kim Fowley released his The Tri…
As a younger fellow, I used to quite like the idea of subversion and (hushed tone) transgression in pop music. These days I’m not so bothered. I’m not sure that pop music has ever been particularly subversive. Has it ever had a corrupting effect, though? Yep. As a lower middle-class dweller (old skool class definitions here only) I am happy to …
