I get off on these tangents sometimes. Well OK, quite often. And music is so everything everywhere, so pervasive, so wound around and through the entire universe. I slide, oblivious, down some tangent until something wakes me up, I shake the water off my fur and find myself miles away down a road I don’t remember choosing.
Oh, before I forget, we’re playing at Dusty’s Bar this Saturday at 9:30.
The road to “Copacabana” is not the road less travelled. You might think it TOO travelled. But I started singing “At the Copa, Copacabana…” and that’s all I knew. So I downloaded the words and realized how superbly written this song is. The melody is quite tricky – I couldn’t sing along with Barry on YouTube. So I transcribed it note by note. Still working on actually playing it - there is too much information for me to be able to read and play this tune with any engagement, so I have to memorize it. And, you can bet, if I put in that much work into a song, it has to show up in the act!
TMI? Sorry. Hope to see you at Dusty's on Saturday - NE Minneapolis - right across from where the Grain Belt Brewery used to be.
Nigel.