Categories: "Monday Morning Musical Musings"
21st Century Schizoid Band
07/05/10 02:30, by paul.bourgeois, Categories: BFMN Exclusive, Monday Morning Musical Musings, Paul Bourgeois , Tags: 21st century schizoid man, blues, emerson lake and palmer, king crimson, music, performance, scale, the blue monsters, theory
Musical Musings with Paul Bourgeois
“Cat’s foot. Iron Claw. Neuro-Surgeons scream for more. At paranoia’s poison door. 21st Century Schizoid man.” I can remember belting that out in the basement of our apartment building with a five-piece… more »
No Idea What It Means to Be Creative
06/28/10 03:31, by paul.bourgeois, Categories: BFMN Exclusive, Monday Morning Musical Musings, Paul Bourgeois , Tags: benzedrine monks, creative writing, divine inspiration, dreams, gregorian, music
Musical Musings with Paul Bourgeois
Be creative!?! I have no idea what that means, to be creative. It means nothing really. We just do something… write a song or a book or story or get up on stage and try to entertain. It’s all part of the… more »
Theory! We Don't Need No Stinking Theory!
06/21/10 01:59, by paul.bourgeois, Categories: BFMN Exclusive, Monday Morning Musical Musings, Paul Bourgeois , Tags: arpeggios, harmonica, keys, meditation, modes, music theory, rhythm, scales, zen
Musical Musings with Paul Bourgeois
This is actually Part II of Are Harmonica Players Real Musicians? but the above title is so much cooler. Every time Eric and I write a new song I am just bowled over by a “We did that!” feeling. The universe is an… more »
Is the Harmonica Player Really a Musician? - Part 1
06/14/10 00:27, by paul.bourgeois, Categories: BFMN Exclusive, Monday Morning Musical Musings, Paul Bourgeois , Tags: bar fight, blues, harmonica, jazz, keys, music theory, musician, rhythm, schecter diamond series, the blue monsters
Musical Musings with Paul Bourgeois
Dan Grigor said he loved these articles because they were “a wonderful look into the mind of the working musician.” I don’t know about that, but it warms my wretched heart.
I’m a singer and a harmonica… more »
The Sound of God
06/07/10 00:24, by paul.bourgeois, Categories: BFMN Exclusive, Monday Morning Musical Musings, Paul Bourgeois , Tags: carl sagan, chant, church, cosmos, gregorian, music, religion, universe
Musical Musings with Paul Bourgeois
Carl Sagan said on Cosmos that the Universe came into existence billions and billions of years ago. Hydrogen atoms were formed, gathered into stars where the heavy elements were created; those stars exploded and… more »
A Whole Movie of Jazz
05/31/10 05:24, by paul.bourgeois, Categories: BFMN Exclusive, Monday Morning Musical Musings, Paul Bourgeois , Tags: 1948, a song is born, benny goodman, danny kaye, howard hawks, jazz, louis armstrong
Musical Musings with Paul Bourgeois
If you haven’t guessed it yet I am a movie freak, and I love movies about music. I want to share a movie with you. Wouldn’t it be really cool if you could see Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Buck and Bubbles… more »
Crash and Burn, Baby
05/24/10 02:21, by paul.bourgeois, Categories: Monday Morning Musical Musings , Tags: deathletter blues, monday morning musical musings, paul bourgeois, the blue monsters
Musical Musings by Paul Bourgeois
I keep saying performance makes me self-conscious. I feel like everybody is looking at me. But nobody gets the joke. So take your shoes off and wiggle your toes a bit for this one. Because you’ll need all your… more »