Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
This is the last of the Tuesdays in which Tapes will be Mixed and (shared).
Although I was unable to participate here, around the start of this year, Jen Kehl’s ‘Twisted MixTape Tuesday’ has been a favorite of mine, from the very first (Tuesday). A group of bloggers (ranging from professionally accomplished to the odd and funny), the central focus being: different music and themes (of music) and genre (of music) and era and decade (of music), Tuesdays were always kinda special. And not just because I got to ‘play music’ that I loved, (have any of us ever outgrown the… “wait! wait!! this part…coming right up listen listen!“), but because of the people who I got to ‘hang out with’. (A bit of a confession, since the start of this bloghop, I have been in awe of the participants, the other bloggers. Not simply because they were all so very knowledgeable, but their writing skills were so…so good (lol) I read the posts to enjoy opinions and insights into music and I read to develop my own blog writing. Awfully good with the words and such, these people and I got to participate!)
As often happens when people join in a common passion, a certain sense of belonging developed. The names on the blogs became real people, at least as real as anything is in this admittedly strange place, but real nonetheless. This really is where I am grateful to Jen (and Kristi) for what they created with the TMTT. The fact of the capacity of music to establish an emotional linkage (between real life events and a song) in the listener is well-established. Jen’s creativity in coming up with themes each week, allowed me to get more personal with my lists of songs, this ‘hop became much, much more than ‘I’ll listen to yours if you listen to mine’. The music that was neurally-welded into my mind during: a relationship crashing and burning, a happy time, the time of loss of a loved one and all of the myriad and common events of life that shape us into who we are… that was what I felt able to share in the Tuesday Post(s). And, while I may not know the particulars of the event(s) associated with a particular song that Linda or Lance or Troy or ‘White Rooms and all the others might be offering on a given Tuesday, I know of their ‘story’. Because that is what blogging really is, people telling other people a story, about their lives, of their reality. (Around the Doctrine, we have a saying, an expression, ‘to come to know how a person relates themselves to the world around them‘… the stories that blogs are, is a way to come to know how a person relates themselves to the world around them.) And so, I was privileged to come to know a very diverse group of people. This is the real benefit of participation in Jen Kehl’s Twisted MixTape Tuesday bloghop.
…so now, the photo at the top of this Post should make some sense! People that otherwise might never cross paths spend time together and somehow a relationship is created that encourages us to share a little bit of ourselves with others who know and love music.
I have never been that good with the linking songs to themes, so I will assert my right to share the songs that I just plain love. I always come back to these songs: the first really loud music, the first of the funk, the timeless and the restless, the music posted here today has always moved me. I can’t think of a more personal goodbye to the TMTT.
…hey! ya gotta listen to this song!!
Led Zeppelin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_8OOyrPOs0
Warren Zevon
Grand Funk Parliament
Bach
Humble Pie
(the man with the guitar)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7-1bkLShkY
Beatles
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From Lizzi at Considerings: ( who is tangled up in the alphabet… but has participated and benefitted from this here bloghop here )
It is the magic of this place that, soon after hitting ‘publish’, I managed to contact Lizzi, (an Ocean and 5 hours away) and she asked me to pass along her feelings about this ‘place’ that Jen put so much of herself into, that we all could be better for the experience
“(Just that) … exploring my feelings and creativity with music via TMTT has been a hugely important, useful and wonderful experience. Telling parts of my life through song in this way has been profoundly revealing and has made a huge difference. It has challenged me and stretched me and put me in touch with parts of my spirit I needed to reach, and I’m hugely and endlessly grateful for having been part of it“
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Yes, our friends are still toiling away at the Alphabet of Tears (Challenge)
zoe: continuing with her most excellent clarklike theme of knowing stuff!
Jean: ok, our friend is striking out into the Middle Lands of the Alphabet with the Letter ‘M’
Lizzi: today, while meeting the letteristic requirements of ‘the Challenge’ provides another chapter in her Shadows and Stardust book-to-be
About clarkscottroger
first.
That is some excellent music you chose, clark! What a cool hop! jean
yeah… it (the TMTT) was a fun bloghop… and being extremely olden, gave me a certain advantage over the less ancient of the other participants! lol (no, no fuckin way near ‘worth it’*)
*the advantage of age versus not being olden…lol**
** hey! I already made this point… it was implied (where’s that checklist…. ‘So you don’t remember shit!’ here it is item 6!)
Wow, Clark! I love this mix! Every single song some of which I haven’t heard in forever. I think I’m especially fond of the Zeppelin. Thanks, man!
Sandy
That first album was the first of the ‘loud music’ of the 60’s that I can recall thinking… ‘wow!* these earphones it’s like I’m there’!
* we said ‘wow’ a lot, along with ‘far out’ and, I swear, ‘groovy’
lovely post , Clark….quite heartfelt…. Ive never known you to explain a photo before!
I am trying to learn not necessarily know….but hey… I dont meditate enough either…lol!
Happy Tuesday!
zoe
thank you
( you tryin to mess with my head again?)
(lol)
who me? naw…never…
Awesome mix to go out on!
thankee
THANK YOU Clark, for letting me borrow a corner there :D
Your mix is also good. Not sure I can legitimately call mine a ‘mix’ but what the hey, I’ll take ‘B-side’
and I have not forgotten about ‘the Contest’
Oh dear….apparently *I* have…
lol
Hey look, I’m first! Ok whatever, I’m not but I wanted to be which is enough. I love your songs. Your compilation is as mixed a group as the Breakfast Club and all of us here bloggers. Which seems fitting and perfect and makes me a little bit sad because it’s *sniff* the last *sniff* day of TMTT.
Also I’m so glad I’m not participating in that stupid contest. Blech. I love that I’m both the good girl and the not good one. That rocks.
yeah…this was my 2nd ‘hop totally fun
*sniff*
A more fitting photo there could not be. And talk about great* Clarks think alike, I almost created a post just like yours. I wanted to harken back to some of my favorite songs from mixes past, but I needed to say a proper goodbye.
It will come back in a monthly format after awhile… we’ll see. It was good times…. good times.
(*I know I think we’re great. But you know… I could be delusional. But I like my delusion.)
Jen
we do and we are, unfortunately we don’t believe ourselves too often, but then again, as I meet more clarks, I get better at whatever it is that we are secretly trying to do with our lives,
ya know?
So what is it that clarks ARE trying to secretly do w our lives? Seriously.
Really digging the rendition of Halleujah I Love her So
It is my 10 ten simply enjoy it song list.
A great send off- You are blog #2 with a Breakfast Club reference that I’ve visited on this hop, so I think I might just keep a count…It’s a good club, so no worries. And the former Grade Nine Royal Conservatory Piano Student LOVED the random Bach – so thanks for that amongst the rest of the enjoyable mix!
Lovely selections, particularly the Zevon and the Bach. Where else, but on TMTT, could I ever write THAT sentence? LOL!
Cool Clark, with a Humble Pie performance!!! See u on the chat.
Michelle
for sure