Where Do You Keep the Beat?

[Lightning Rod]

One of my musical friends is a diabetic and he unfortunately had to have his foot amputated recently. He is a guitar player and band leader. He usually sits on a stool at center stage and keeps the beat for the band with his foot.

When I was told about his unfortunate amputation, I had to wonder which foot it was and how did he keep the beat now? Does he use the other foot to keep the beat?

I think it has to do with right and left brain stuff. You know what I mean. When you jack-off with your right hand, it feels like you are....well, jacking-off. But when you do it with your left hand it almost feels like someone else is doing it.

I usually keep the beat in my head, but when I use my feet for a metronome, I find that when I'm playing the guitar, I keep the beat with my right foot, and when I play the piano, I keep it with both feet. Where do you keep the beat?

[stilltrucking]

Clay I don't keep a beat
the beat beats me
but I heard a musician friend of mine say about me in the third person,
to another musician.
As I was tapping my foot out of time
"I don't know what he hears, but he sure listens." I have no I idea what it is all about. That is why I can't do poetry. Some kind of musical autism on my part.

I keep the beats in my freezer. I make ice cubes out of them. Then I pour good kentucky burbon over them and drink the music down.

"The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music" --Ray Nitzke

I love that title. I wonder what it means? We got this unasked for gift of consciousness and music is God's way of recompense for the inconvience?

[bohonato]

Right foot. Heel, not toes.
Occasional full out stomping.
Piano - I do the Yo-Yo Ma body sway/rock thing.
Unless I'm drunk; then a dance party is in order.

[Lightning Rod]

here is a musical footnote:

http://www.studioeight.tv/musicpost/LR/thebeat.mp3

[e_dog]

Sounds like you've hit upon a great new abstinance education line.

l-rod:

When you jack-off with your right hand, it feels like you are....well, jacking-off. But when you do it with your left hand it almost feels like someone else is doing it.

Of course, they'd have to give up their anti-masturbation approach. But Christians shouldn't be to hard-line not to compromise.