Great Tunes…..Interrupted

I, along with many others, love to listen to great music.  Of course “great” is a relative term.  My mom would disagree with many choices in my digital library.  She wouldn’t be so hip to the Black Keys, but she might get down with some Sublime.  I love to rock out, but I rarely know words to songs.  I am a beat and riff kinda dude!  Don’t get me wrong, I know a lot of the lyrics to a lot of songs, but if I was asked to perform them  1) Your ears would bleed, 2) I would have to use my wife’s technique of adding “something, something” in lieu of words unknown. 

So I am a driving down the freeway on my way home from the office one day and totally thrashing the new Beastie Boys album (Hot Sauce Committee Pt. 2- Go get it if you’re a fan), and I get off the exit and notice my phone is ringing.  I can’t hear it obviously, but I can see the screen light up.  I am coming up to a red light at the bottom of the ramp and the windows are up and the AC is blasting as much as the first track “Make Some Noise” so I contemplate answering.  It is someone that never answers my calls, but I also like talking to them, so it’s a conundrum.  FINE, I’ll answer, but it was the part with the cowbells (it makes me think of Will Ferrell and smile).  So I turn down the in-car one man party and say hello like I have been in a quiet room all day.  The conversation is short, the light is green, but the damage is done.  I have lost my groove on that song. 

Once you really get going and jam so hard that the invitation to join The Band is certainly in the mail, but then it gets interrupted, and getting back to that "place" is near impossible.  It is the sneeze that just won’t come out, but keeps tickling you all day.  I suddenly realize that the phone answer was a bad idea and I have to change tempo, style or possibly just tune in NPR because I am so out of sync.  So I change it up, put on the System of Down to calm my nerves and ramp back up at the same time.  There is something about people raging harder than you that can have a calming effect.  If you have never listen to SOOD and want to really thrash it out on a run or workout, this is the group for you!  I have ridden my bike unknowingly extra hard because of this band to the point that I nearly threw up listening to their songs. Hence my three song limit while exercising.  

So next time you are blasting your favorite song (hopefully not Miley) don’t let an interruption ruin the flow of the jammin’!  Sing that song as loud as you can with as many words as you know.  Beat the steering wheel like it deserves it and if you know how to drive with your knee, the air guitar championships are just around the corner, GET READY!
 

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