I'm in Oxford, UK today for BarCampApacheOxford and this morning when I logged in to Facebook, I got the following appeal for participation "...so that it can be used by people all over the world..." Great, I'm game. What do I have to do?
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April 03, 2009
Playing in the Band
I blogged last week that I had some musician friends hanging out with me in Amsterdam. Some of you know that I play (well, I try to play) Irish Mandolin, and carry one around with me when I travel. Because I knew my friends were meeting up with me, this time I brought my good mando. I call it my good one because it's...well, its sublime to play. 82 years old and just getting better. Here's a nice shot of the old girl, taken by Noel Bergman...
My friends and I spent some time playing music downstairs in the bar at the hotel where ApacheCon EU happened...and for me it was a rare and wonderful evening because it was one of the first times I learned a tune in real time while simultaneously playing it! Probably had something to do with the Duvel...after the third one I couldn't feel my fingers anymore and somehow they knew just where to go to make the right notes happen. What a feeling to access music through your fingers like you can through your voicebox...hard to describe how great it was. Here's a picture Noel took of the three of us playing that night...you can kind of tell that I might have been drinking (notice the lean).
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