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Cameron Weckerley's avatar

That really touched a chord with me. As someone who desperately wanted to be a heavy metal musician in the late 1970s I wore out the grooves of my Judas Priest and Black Sabbath records teaching myself to play one hard-won note at a time. At this stage of my life having battled it out in the club wars of the 80s and 90s and am now teaching. My young potential guitar players come to me with almost zero intellectual curiosity about the music. If is so depressing.

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Zafirios Georgilas's avatar

Filemon, the magician in Carl Jung's Red Book, said "magic happens to everything that eludes comprehension." Great music like art is magic. We can't really understand it despite our society's emphasis on left brained logic and reason. Searching for song meanings on the Internet reminds me of this line from a Scouse poet, "Expert textpert choking smokers, Don't you think the joker laughs at you?"

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