The Soul Siblings...
My brother is probably going to be horrified, but I'm going to
tell this:
When we were kids, we were musicians at heart. But we had no
instruments, we were just young kids. So we got creative. I heard
someone talking about this recently. Making homemade instruments.
Reminded me that J and I made a whole bunch of instruments, and
they weren't that bad.
Pringles can with dry rice in it.
Shoebox with rubber bands across it.
A glass bowl with two #2 pencils with erasers on the tips. The erasers
were important, those were your drums.
We did have one of those old organs that my parents brought home one day for us.
They knew what we were up to.
We called ourselves "The Soul Siblings" and wrote a bunch of sweet little
songs. They were actually good songs, I remember them to this day.
but very young songs. We couldn't have been more than 8 or 10 when we started, and it was
a much more innocent time. Even the 70's were still more innocent than now.
Yep, the Soul Siblings. That's actually rather cute! Not a bad name
for the 70s, the time. And how young we were.
tell this:
When we were kids, we were musicians at heart. But we had no
instruments, we were just young kids. So we got creative. I heard
someone talking about this recently. Making homemade instruments.
Reminded me that J and I made a whole bunch of instruments, and
they weren't that bad.
Pringles can with dry rice in it.
Shoebox with rubber bands across it.
A glass bowl with two #2 pencils with erasers on the tips. The erasers
were important, those were your drums.
We did have one of those old organs that my parents brought home one day for us.
They knew what we were up to.
We called ourselves "The Soul Siblings" and wrote a bunch of sweet little
songs. They were actually good songs, I remember them to this day.
but very young songs. We couldn't have been more than 8 or 10 when we started, and it was
a much more innocent time. Even the 70's were still more innocent than now.
Yep, the Soul Siblings. That's actually rather cute! Not a bad name
for the 70s, the time. And how young we were.
posted by Nabonidus at 8:25 AM
7 Comments:
Hi Lisa, This reminds me when we were kids. We missed The Beatle's (mere babies in the 60's) and had always hoped they would return.
My friend around the block had a musical family & had drums, guitars, etc... Anyhow we tried to be The Beatles & put on a show on his front porch. Let's just say the neighbors looked at us funny.
It was pathetic but fun! Plus it made me want to truly learn music. I had to. I was terrible on that porch!
Now I can play with authority but I don't forget "The Porch Incident" Don't want to be too confident. Bonfire Jones
Jeez, this strikes home for me.
Actually, you reminded me of when I learned that the Beatles had broken up, Long Beach CA, early 70's. I was
probably like 4 or 5.
We were watching the movie "ellow Submarine" and I asked about them.
My Mom and Dad said " Hell, they broke up a long time ago." And they were sounding like it was a long dead fact.Ancient news.
I got genuinely distressed, upset! lol
I said " Well can't they make up? They shouldn't be fighting!".
It really did upset me.:)
xoxoLisa
Hi Lisa,
Wonderful story, loved it! Reminds me of my childhood, though me and my brother's instruments were limited to the ordinary pots and pans. Then I started playing the violin at 6 years old (an older girl I knew played the violin and I thought it looked so great and romantic) and went to the local music institute. Ended up playing the violin and viola for some 25 years, even played in the university chamber orchestra for a few years.
Erm, I mean I ended up playing the violin and viola for some 15 years, not 25.
Wow that's awesome,Maria!
That's a tricky instrument to learn to
play!I kept forgetting that you have to draw the bow in a certain direction. The chin thing is difficult, too.
So if you've been playing that long, and had that experience, you must be good!I bet you kick ass.:)
I've only tried a friends violin, so I'm no violin pro.
Actually, I stopped playing it some 4 or 5 years ago. One thing was that the work and other activities took time. But a bigger reason is that I never felt love or enthusiasm about it, not the sort of feeling "this is for me". I never liked practising and the sort of formalism associated with it in the music institute. Then later I couldn't associate it with rock'n'roll which, believe it or not, I began listening to when I was only around 17 or 18 and instantly fell in love with. Then in the university chamber orchestra it began to get to sort of a semi-professional level which would have required more practise etc, a hobby becoming job. Maybe it's a wrong kind of thinking, don't know. Anyway I know for certain that I don't have creative talent with music, composing or writing songs. Maybe that was the problem with the violin. I'm happy, in retrospect, that I did go to the music institute and played the violin/viola as long as I did. I believe the music education enables me to understand the music I love and listen to these days a bit better.
But what about people like Tracy Bonham? " Mother, Mother".
People that have combined the two?
Rock and violin. Jimmy Page.Papa John
Creech? Creach?
But if you really aren't feeling it, then that's the ultimate point.But you could get with a rock band somewhere.
H.P wrote a cool story once about a violin playing sounds from another dimension.
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