Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

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?

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?

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.

here is a musical footnote:

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

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.