So, what’s that all about?
“Forget Rules, It’s Time to Experiment” has been my practice from a music and art perspective since my days in Hollywood and Palm Springs (60s, 70s and 80s). I have always been into dance music, from childhood and through the present. I collected jazz and big band records and studied them. Classical, blues and RnB too, anything that had a beat. When Rock n Roll came into play, I’d dance to Bill Haley and Elvis. Before that, I was dancing to Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry and Little Richard. All the way back to the 20s, 30s and 40s I studied and learned to appreciate the genres.
I won’t get into the political, religious and cultural ramifications right now. That’s a whole story within itself growing up in KY and the south, but, in my mind it all relates. All I cared about deep down was spreading the gospel of this spectrum to the universe. My grandmother wanted me to be a singing preacher. So I decided that the universal pulpit of music you could feel good about (move and groove, feel and dance to) would help get the message out. The triangle (mind, body, spirit) was and still is, with me. What does that have to do with “Electronic Dance Music (EDM)”? Isn’t there electricity in the air? ZAZU ZAZU! Let’s talk about the French in WWII regarding discotheque. What did that mean then and now? Was it the politics of freedom or ecstasy? Why does freedom make you want to get into “the universal flow”? What was Cab Calloway up to? Let’s shake that thing while feelin’ it in your soul. A thank you to Glenn Miller.
Boy, those “Speak Easys” kept the spirit alive. DANCEDANCEDANCE!!! The evolvement of expressing happiness in the soul has been universal since the beginning of time. The multiverse is alive and well, onward and upward, to infinity and beyond. This is where FM comes into play meeting AM. Oh, by the way, “radio” has been important, and still is, for spreading the good word (music/art). The multiverse is multimedia in the “Big Dance” scheme of things.
More to come with Freddie May and AMFM as we speak to the world of “Cosmic Consciousness”.