It was a couple of days before he left town for Thanksgiving eating/visiting family-no, not eating the family, geez-- and so forth that we talked about how certain musical instruments influence, help to shape, create, develop the personality of the person playing it and the conversation went a little freaky, I mean, I started to think that the instrument is the control panel for the musician, and while the musician not totally or actually never incidental to the sound emanating from that instrument whether juvenile or stunning the instrument in effect is a conductor of the musician but of course I just invented the idea that the, say the Trumpet as we were discussing is the type of instrument that commands the personality of a true frontman, that which is defined in any genre--any band in any genre-- that quintessential front~human who pulls us in and takes us on this mission that the band has laid out on a set list --which is another fascinating piece to the live experience and a piece that is unrelated here but whatev, it's my blog and I'll deviate if I want to, anyhooooo so if a trumpeter emerges as a frontman, sort of, or mainly this the trumpeter displays some of the skill set that is required from the frontman than it must be said that the instrument is the X factor in the development of this personality type and maybe musicians should have their own personality types charted like the type A's B's C's and D's that the rest of less than hard core musically trained or totally untrained-non musical rabble are categorized by because I can't imagine Kim Deal fitting into any of the categories that make up the ABCD types, I mean, she's totally something different and you can hear it in the bass she plays, she's heavy, maybe she's an Em personality, nahh too much of a complaint for the stoic, maybe she's an F#m7 because it's not a depressed note the m elongates the # and those notes meld into to something that is quite beautiful actually and with Kim, I've realized in her playing that there are times that she can choose a steadily simplistic bass line because it is required by the composition and that her instrument doesn't play her according to an idea that the more complicated the line, the more it pulls through the song, adding to it and being a part of it-- maybe I find a relationship between the F#m7 and the lyric 'your feet are in the sky and your head is on the ground' that the bright tones poking through the F#m7 is a metaphor for Kim's smart interpretation of the bass for the Pixies taking the bass from what could be that which settles the song to that line which the song gets tangled up in like in a simple tangling which is how I think Kim would want it --which is odd because she is really quite complicated but I love her and I love the Pixies and actually she was much like her bass line while she was in the Pixies ~ heavily rehearsed perfect design off a bit and still relevant since twenty years have meandered by
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