"The Mystery Of Sound Is Mysticism"

That is just a small sample of his mind-blowing catalog of songs.

I’d love to hear a purely science/data-based explanation how one person can do something like that 😉

Happy Holidays!

It’s called Channeling. Jimi Hendrix did it and so did Duke Ellington, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Trane, Prince and many others.

Sound is a mystery and if it was not one would be killed by boredom for eternity ...

Only a bored boring man can think that sound is not a mystery, or that there are no mysteries...

Even a deaf man listens and a blind man sees the mysteries...

Sound is small subset of Vibration. Maybe this thread should have been titled "The Mystery Of Vibration Is Mysticism" instead of "The Mystery Of Sound Is Mysticism".

@mijostyn 

Maybe in Indian music and other forms I am not familiar with, but western music is highly structured and deliberate, anything but mystical.

Obviously you’ve never listened to recording artists Gábor Szabó, Lonnie Liston Smith, Sun Ra, Earth Wind and Fire and so many others from the ’Age of Aquarius’. Heck even George Clinton had a Mothership!

"The Mystery Of Sound Is Mysticism"

The mystery of sound has been around since well, the big bang. It was only recently in the scheme of time that man took sound and made sonic drills. There’s no way that there are no more mysteries of sound to be found. That is pure absolutist thinking.

When I was 35, many years ago I volunteered for a blood pressure study at Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA. They wanted to scientifically measure the effects of ’Transcendental Meditation’ on blood pressure. We had a doctor of medicine who had studied under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi who brought ’Transcendental Meditation’ to the western world.

We practiced focus, breathing, stretching and other relaxation techniques to learn how to settle the mind/thoughts. After about 1 week we all got our ’Mantra’, which is a sound that was given to us in audible form. We were then told to repeat our mantra’s to ourselves in thought only - while employing the relaxation techniques.

These techniques were/are apart of the Indian culture for thousands of years and yet it took thousands of years to apply it scientifically to the western world. Oh boy did it lower our blood pressure and more importantly without any meds! I still use this un-audible form of meditation to this day.

If there are no Mysteries Of Sound (in Mysticism) would someone please explain to me how an UN-AUDIBLE SOUND can have such a dramatic and profound affect on our entire human physiology and psychology?

@mahgister, the world would so boring if we only had elitist scientist as a knowledge base. Thank GOD we have the Magi to give ancient writings of life’s wonders and gives us older folks the bright light of wonderment that we had when we were just a child!

We are music.

I like to think of music as the universal language.

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Woodstock - WE ARE STARDUST

Well I came across a child of God, he was walking along the road And I asked him tell where are you going, this he told me: Well, I’m going down to Yasgur’s farm, going to join in a rock and roll band. Got to get back to the land, set my soul free. We are stardust, we are golden, we are billion year old carbon, And we got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Well, then can I walk beside you? I have come to lose the smog. And I feel like I’m a cog in something turning. And maybe it’s the time of year, yes, and maybe it’s the time of man. And I don’t know who I am but life is for learning. We are stardust, we are golden, we are billion year old carbon, And we got to get ourselves back to the garden.

By the time we got to Woodstock, we were half a million strong, And everywhere there was song and celebration. And I dreamed I saw the bombers jet planes riding shotgun in the sky, Turning into butterflies above our nation. We are stardust, we are golden, we caught in the devil’s bargain, And we got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Writer(s): Joni Mitchell, Stormy Forest Masters Copyright: Crazy Crow Music

By the way I love Sun Ra, Lonnie Smith and Gabor Szabo...

@mahgister my dear friend, you are confusing Dr. Lonnie Smith who is one heck of a jazz artist with Lonnie Liston Smith.

The greatest American poets are Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson ..

My favorite American poet is Robinson, Smokey!

You, as always humble yourself. You know who Smokey Robison is. He is a Motown (out of Detroit, Michigan USA) recording artist!

Years ago, When Bob Dylan was asked who was his favorite poet he said Robinson, Smokey! Of Smokey Robison and the Miracles! 

We cannot see more than the way we love ....

Happy Holidays to all!

@stuartk, Thank you for giving @mahgister his props! There was no need at all to delete your post:  

@mahgister 

+1

That is/was a blessing to @mahgister! You did/wrote nothing wrong! Thank you!

And that’s exactly why I used the word ’Love’ in my last post.

He was undoubtedly searching for something and perhaps it would have made more sense if he had survived longer.

The only thing worse than being old is being old and alone. No, that is not right. Old, alone and without a stereo. That is the worst.

I don’t think at all that @mijostyn is as negative as he may seem. Stubborn as a Georgia mule, yes but I have come to recognize him as one who has a peculiar talent to spark debate with the keen ability to make others want to participate.

I’ve seen him use a paragraph or even one sentence to start the debate about, styli, tonearms, turntables, subwoofers and seen everyone from, chackster, Raul, Atmosphere and even Audiokinesis want chime in and this would go on for days.

I say this in with a positive vibe. But I’ve never seen so much fatalism from you? Take care my audiophile friend, I’ve been fortunate enough to learn so much from you here on Audiogon.

I thought that it was John Lennon that claimed Smokey was America’s Greatest Poet.

’Bob Dylan famously called Smokey Robinson “America’s greatest living poet” for the exquisite beauty, pain and affection in lyrics to “Tracks of My Tears,” “Tears of a Clown” and so many other songs Robinson wrote and sang during his heyday at Motown in the 1960s and 1970s.’

@mahgister, you can check out Smokey Robinson's “Tracks of My Tears and “Tears of a Clown” on you tube. You will love his poetry!

@deep_333, nicely done!

’I am enthusiastic and never take lightly people who kill enthusiasm in the students...’

Point taken - understood (teacher). But please let me have my own inner truths, after all the path I choose is mine. And I in no way was dismissing your vital contributions.

It’s that sometimes one has too counter a bad vibration with pleasant or good vibrations. Sometimes you have to try another path. Check out - Good Vibrations - Beach Boys 1966. After all this is Audiogon.

Wow you remind me of something here i listened too when i had 15 years old on my small battery radio ...😊 I had forgot ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNS6D4hSQdA

You and I probably listened to the same radio station! It was CKLW out of Detroit, Mich. Or Détroit (pronounced De-Twah) in your native French.

I wonder what Duke Ellington might’ve said on this topic

He has, he has told this story before about how especially between gigs on a train, plane and in cars he was always writing/creating news songs on any kind of paper he could find even napkins!