Sunday, February 28, 2021

Made it back to Greater SF Bay Area

 Sunday seemed like the best day to return so we did so we could better integrate our business work we have to accomplish this week. So, we had dinner at home last night and went out for dessert at a friend's house in Shasta. Then we listened to an edited version of the song I sang and then a different version of it with other voices accompanying it and another instrument added to the introduction.  I was pretty pleased with the result of the work done. It's sort of a legacy song so my kids and friends will have some record of one or more songs I wrote or lyrics I wrote to existing songs during mostly the late 1960s and early 1970s mostly when I was 18 to 30 years of age. Though I continued to write songs after I first married in 1974, mostly I raised my kids and worked a lot and took care of my family after I got married. So, I didn't write as many songs or lyrics after that.

I had once considered being a professional musician like my best friend but I found I liked from ages 10 to 21 playing organ and piano in church on the Baldwin Organ and the Concert Steinway Grand piano that they had there. I'm much better at piano than organ but I can also play a pipe organ too in a pinch. But, I would say the piano is my best instrument even though I play keyboards, synthesizers, Guitar and flute as well. 

I guess I didn't go professional mostly because I don't like playing music for drunk or stoned people as music for me is a more sacred thing and alcohol and cigarettes and drugs I don't consider a part of that (especially when I was in my teens and early 20s) when I was deciding what to do with my life.

However, my best friend opened for the Band Chicago at the L.A. Colisseum with his band when he was 16 years old and still in High School. They were pretty good and he still owns a recording studio and performs to this day.

Saturday, February 27, 2021

Define Provincial

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pro·vin·cial
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adjective
  1. 1.
    of or concerning a province of a country or empire.
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    nonmetropolitan
    small-town
    nonurban
    outlying
    rural
    country
    rustic
    backwoods
    backwater
    one-horse
    hick
    freshwater
    Opposite:
    national
    metropolitan
    cosmopolitan
  2. 2.
    of or concerning the regions outside the capital city of a country, especially when regarded as unsophisticated or narrow-minded.
    "the whole exhibition struck one as being very provincial"
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    regional
    state
    territorial
    district
    local
    sectoral
    zonal
    cantonal
    county
    parochial
    colonial
    unsophisticated
    narrow-minded
    small-town
    suburban
    insular
    parish-pump
    inward-looking
    limited
    restricted
    localist
    conservative
    narrow
    small-minded
    petty
    blinkered
    illiberal
    inflexible
    bigoted
    prejudiced
    intolerant
    jerkwater
    corn-fed
    Opposite:
    national
    sophisticated
    broad-minded
noun
  1. 1.
    an inhabitant of a province of a country or empire.
  2. 2.
    an inhabitant of the regions outside the capital city of a country, especially when regarded as unsophisticated or narrow-minded.
    "a town populated by money-grubbers, philistines, and self-satisfied provincials"
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