Post by YesterdayOnceMore on Jun 2, 2006 8:54:14 GMT -5
HEY KC
I see you found and figured out the icons! Excellent. I knew you'd figure all of this stuff out, as technically advanced as you are with your sequencing, etc.
It's my turn to say a few things about KC - Yes, yes - we were college roomies. And yes, I think I'd told the story on this forum before about having the speakers on the floor and us laying on the floor, heads between the speakers, allowing the soothing music of the Carpenters, with that awesome voice of Karen's take all of the cares of college life completely out of our minds, from time to time. Ah yes, those were the days, eh?
The story he tells is completely on the mark - we were both music majors (I later changed to business and so did he) and we had lots of first year classes together - like Music Theory (we took this class with one of the dudes from the Ozark Mountain Daredevils - remember them?) I remember old Granda - we sat together in music theory and he always asked a lot of questions. The Ozark Mountain Daredevils had a long career of light rock stuff, and Granda wrote a lot of the tunes. Later, one of the last band members, Ruell Chapel, called me to take his single gig at one of our local nite spots so he could go on the road with them. It's funny how all this intertwines.
But, I digress (nothing new, I know) - KC and I did meet in music class - jazz band - ear training - all those wonderful first semester classes. I was fascinated with the fact that he'd lived in Afghanistan and Pakistan and Iraq and had moved here and there in his lifetime - fascinated at that time not so much by the places he'd been (though now, my goodness - LOOK AT WHERE HE's BEEN!!!!) - but I was more fascinated by the fact that he was so able to "adapt" to changing surroundings so easily. We became fast friends - we had an immense amount in common.
KC was also the type who would drop whatever he was doing to help someone in need - still is that way - in fact, that goes right along with his business. He's in the business of helping people, and does so every single day. Heart the size of the Grand Canyon - and an excellent percussionist/drummer. After our 6/7 years together during college and after - KC left Springfield and for a while we kept in touch, then for years, we lost touch. It wasn't supposed to be that way though, and soon, we were visiting each other - he in Orange County, CA (actually, he was in Sacramento at the time), and me still here in Springfield. Soon, KC began talking about moving back here, and after several years of wondering, he did it.....moved in with us, in fact, and began working here in town - met his wife here, who was not from here by then, though she, too, had lived here during college - and so KC once again moved - this time, we weren't going to lose touch, and never have.
I tell that story because during those years we were living away from each other, KC became quite an accomplished pianist, as well as percussionist. I'll always think of him as the "drummer" for my trio - just like I was the piano man.....when in reality, his musical abilities stretch far beyond those boundries - vocally - and instrumentally.
More to come....perhaps from my own "corner." More on that to come, too.
KC - I'm so thankful you finally got connected to this site. It's gonna be a fun ride, yes?
Tim
