Do you feel the bass?
It’s deep rhythm strummed out to match your heart
Can words create that sound
Can thought mimic its emotion?
Deeper and deeper it becomes
carrying you on a dark current
Taking your very breath away
Louder it sounds
vibrating its rhythmic tune into your soul
I feel the cords
Beat, beat, beat endlessly
commanding all of me to follow
I don’t move until it leads me
Slowly, it fades under the guitar
But it will never disappear.
Hoi hoi
Hope this finds you well.
I don’t know if you did hear one of the cooperations I posted on DUP, of a DUP member and myself?
What you describe here is the essence of making music purely for fun.
Count to 4 and hammer away. Noise wonderful, tuning the guitar an option.
Thank you so much for making and posting this wonderful poem.
Kind regards, Gus
Hi Gus, I do not think I did hear the collaboration you had. It must have been fun. Thank you for liking and commenting on this.
There were some 10 or 12 coops all in all. They attracted anything between an estimated 4,500 and 12,500 listeners per song. All musicians, writers and 8 of them a coop with DUP’ers.
Women often have to work harder to get a decent stage. I attempted to mingle fun with exposure to Dutch and international public.
But no matter, DUP is a sort of history book by now.
I hugely enjoyed you poem. Was it an Ibanez bass?
I wish you a beautiful Friday! Gus
Beautifully penned, Fia. Into the book it belongs! I loved this write my friend, you know how much I love a write that has music in it, especially when were talking about the importance of the bass guitar. Appreciate you.
Damian
The strings are attached to the soul.
Very much enjoyed this one. Great ink
I love the electric bass.
I go way back on that love with
Jack Casady who was with
Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna.
Others too of course.
They always said of Jack that
“he carries it” meaning that he’s the heart of the band and sets the tone.
BIG BASS LIKE …. ALWAYS
Thank you, yes, I love the deep vibration of it.;))