Wally Badarou

 Thank you for being my friend.

 My best wishes to you all, my friends. Let's have an inspiring and fruitful year. I'm working on that.

iPod DJ'ing tonight. 

Had Debussy's "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun" for desert tonight. A delight and an education. Can't get tired of. 

When we manage to put the fuss and the bashing behind us, we might come to realize that Steve Jobs probably did invent ... nothing, but brought us way more than fancy tech innovation: the belief that computing could be made personal, beautiful, fun, enlighting, subsequently 'necessary'. He did it passionately, obssesively, fiercefully, ruthlessly sometimes, but with a dream always. He dit it throughout the voyage that started in a garage, and landed with the visionary Apple II without which IBM would have never thought of a "PC"; continued with the Macintosh without which there would be no Windows; and followed with the i-Saga of marvels some have been quick to call gadgets before they realised they were changing our way of life, deeply, and all around the world. It was all about the power to be yourself and look beyond your limitations, long before this quest turned to be one the most profitable ventures in hi-tech history. And in that respect, we owe him endlessly. As a musician, I owe him each and every second I produce. History might remember him one day as a key writer of mankind evolution past wisdom age era, as described by Arthur C. Clarke in "3001: The Final Odyssey" with its featured knowledge 'brain cap'. It would take someone like Steve to bring us such a tool, worth quite a few Nobel Peace Prizes.   

There is no word to describe the magic between Hendrix electric axes, vocals, raw energy and Dave Mason's acoustic guitar on Jimi's version of Dylan's "All Along The Watchtower". It always seemed to me that these men were re-inventing the late 60s psychedilia with a new set of compelling colors each time I listened to it, which I could never get tired of.  

Befriending Timmy Thomas today. I'm a happy man. http://www.facebook.com/timmy.thomas1?sk=info ;  

Nassau, Bahamas. Just a thought.

Top off, no bass, just leave the clavinet and the voice against the brass, and you get one of the funkiest marvels in history. Superstition. Just try it. 

 So much to regret, so little to celebrate. The world gone wild. Real hard to remain optimistic. But we will, we ought to.