A Midsummer's Freetime

There are few things in this world that give me more joy than getting together with friends (such as my brother) and playing music. Being able to connect with another person on this level where you can feel what he or she is doing and what is about to be done is indescribable and somehow transcendent. The two, or four or fourteen, of you are part of one big entity that is influenced by each, but seemingly controlled by a will of its own. To be truthful, this does not always happen, nor did happen very often at all in the early days of my musical career. But, as I've grown as a musician, and as my brother and I have played together more and more, reaching that level of musical nirvana has come more and more easily. We still do not attain it every time, nor do I touch it with other musicians as often or as easily, but we still get together and play in hopes that it will come. I think that we would continue to play even if we knew that we'd never play before an audience.