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  • What Are You Thankful For?

    Americans are gearing up for the holiday season, which typically kicks off with Thanksgiving, football games, leftover turkey sammiches, and a chance to be introspective of all the blessings in life. Family and friends are two of the most important things. Without people with whom we can share our laughter, tears, hopes, dreams, and simple daily ramblings, each of us would be much less likely to smile. Smiles = good vibes.

    One thing for which I am most grateful is music. I don't just enjoy music, I need it, as surely as I need air and water. Music comes to me each and every day; sometimes it's in a movie I see on TV, a commercial jingle that sticks in my head, or that weird piped-in muzak that fills my head in malls and markets. This morning when I was grabbing a few things at the store, they had already started the Christmas music. I don't much celebrate the bigness of the whole season, but I do love the music. Carols, hymns, all of it. Cathedral music is always fine.

    The best is when I put on my mp3 player in the car. I love the aggressive, often controversial barkings of Marilyn Manson and Disturbed; I love the sweetness of Nat King Cole's buttery voice, I love Rod Stewart's rasp, the accents of the Beatles and the Stones. I love Funk and Rock, Blues and Pop, Ballads and Bubble Gum.

    In every song, no matter the genre, I hear the bass. Nah, I don't hear it... I find it. A song starts and I must centre myself through the bassline. Any song I like doubles in its intensity if its growl thunders from below, or even if it simply rumbles softly in the distance. And if there is no bass in a particular tune, I think about where it should be and what it should be saying. When I listen to holiday music, I find the bass in the sound of a massive pipe organ, or in the pa-rum-pa-pum-pum of that little kid with the bass guitar... I mean drum.

    Make sure you take time this Thanksgiving to say THANK YOU for music. Thank you for the bass we all love so much! It's why we're all here in this community. Bass drives the pulse in our veins. Ba-bum, ba-bum, ba-bum... ba-bum-bum, ba-bum-bum, ba-bum-bum, ba-bum-bum... I got sunshine, on a cloudy day... when it's cold outside, I got the--

    Well, you get the idea.

    Oh, and one more thing, I'm glad and very grateful for Teach Me Bass Guitar, and all of you here on Thunder Row. Thanks, everyone, for being my music!



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    Comments 6 Comments
    1. brettpobastad's Avatar
      brettpobastad -
      I'm thankful for a lot! Friends and family... especially my son Jarrett. A disabled skydiver and bass player.

      But just at this moment, I'm thankful that I read that review of Teach Me Bass Guitar in Bass Player magazine! I just love it!! I love Roy's teaching style. It's like I'm sitting in a room with him and a couple other students. I don't feel rushed and I enjoy being right where I am at that moment. I've been playing bass since 1979 and I'm only on Lesson Four and in no hurry. TMBG is fun and it's making me a better musician... right now! Thanks Roy!!
    1. thunderman's Avatar
      thunderman -
      My Dad always said, "never pass up a chance to be thankful." So I'm always on the lookout for blessings, and I find the list almost overwhelming: My wife, kids, and grandkids, other family and friends, reasonably good health, music (as Elmeaux says, who can live without it?) TMBG (of course), a perfect fall day, enough fingers to play my bass, blueberry pie, Dunkin' Donuts, people like you all, my little fleet of hand-me-down cars, rice and potatoes, air, stars, fingernails, circles, imagination...
    1. TobiasMan's Avatar
      TobiasMan -
      Lots of things to be thankful for indeed!

      Used to celebrate "both" Thanksgivings when my daughter-in-law from North Carolina was here. What a treat, Canada's October and then a wonderful repeat from the US tradition in November.
    1. DONNIE B's Avatar
      DONNIE B -
      i,am thankful that god has let me be here with my children my loving wife and family.and being blessed with a wealth of true friends. and for the most part we are in reasonably good health.i have found out over my life time that if you are blessed with a great family and good health and really true friends .then GOD has truly blessed you.so i say to all of my friends on the row happy thanks giving.and to all of my good friends in CANADA don,t despair i adopt you for thanksgiving day.in the us.so to all a very Happy thanksgiving
    1. SilverFlame46's Avatar
      SilverFlame46 -
      I am Thankful for life itself. God has truly blessed me with a wonderful life which includes so many things I could not list them all. But especially my wife!!!
    1. david's Avatar
      david -
      My wife, Barbara. Absolutely! She's put up with me since we started dating 39 years ago. (I keep praying she never comes to her senses!)
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