Stealthily stumbling upon stillness in the depth of All,
I wonder whether this is mere absence of sound or the Voice of God.
Lack of emotion or purest, hidden, divine Love; is that an emotion?
Evasion, moment emptied of unwelcome noise, or Ensoulment of Being via Consciousness?
Neurological pause button or Neo-Nirvana-ish step inward and forward?
Cacophony suppressed or Creative,Unused, Unknown link to Unexplored Worlds?
Ecstacy is a "stepping out," an "EK-STASIS" --is it heralded (and enabled) by Silence?
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Paul A. Merkley
Mental traveller. Idealist. Try to be low-key but sometimes hothead. Curious George. "Ardent desire is the squire of the heart." Love Tolkien, Cinephile. Awards ASCAP, Royal Society. Music as Brain Fitness: www.musicandmemoryjunction.com
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"Do It Again" the track that would ultimately open the Beach Boys final album on Capitol Records which was released on February 10th 1969 had originally been released as a single in August of 1968. The track was the first of many post-Pet Sounds era throwbacks to the early Beach Boys sound which would become continually more cliched and eventually lead the Beach Boys to the level of self-parody they would eventually succumb to in the 1980s while their closest contemporaries The Beatles nearing the end of their run in 1969 would go on to be viewed as the most influential band of all time. However, the song itself is not bad on its surface, and it opens with a futuristic sounding (for 1969) drumbeat captured by then-Beach Boys engineer Stephen Desper using tape delays on the drums performed by Dennis Wilson and John Guerin. The song has been re-recorded numerous times over the years on various Beach Boys-related projects most notably the 2011 re-recording at Capitol studios featuring the five surviving Beach Boys at the time backed instrumentally by various members of both the Brian Wilson Band and Mike Loves touring "Beach Boys" to promote the then upcoming Beach Boys 50th Anniversary reunion tour in 2012. The hammering and power drill sound at the end of the song was an excerpt from a track called "Workshop" that was to be a part of the uncompleted "SMiLE" album.
By Sean Callaghan7 days ago in Beat
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It's a wonderful poem. Great👌
I love your acrostic poem. Well done.
How nice that is. You bounded us to that reading.
Kurt Vonnegut referred to interviews of World War I veterans in which they were asked to remember their impressions the moment the war ended. They said there was a silence, and it was like the voice of God.