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Something that I have noticed from reading these three books on famous blues musicians is that they all had very unique past lives that heavily affected their careers in many ways. Clapton, for example, had an extremely complicated childhood with the relationships that he had with his guardians. The examples that he had of a true relationship were tainted and his ability to trust people was damaged. This carried on over into his adult life as he had many relationship problems all the way up to his current relationship. As far as trust issues go, Clapton went through a lot of friends and managers due to his lack of trust in them. Jimi's childhood was full of music and encouragement to be different from his father. Thanks to this, Jimi grew up trying to be unique. This uniqueness is a big factor of his success as he did many things that no other musician would even think about doing. Moving onto BB King, King grew up with divorced parents. At the age of 9 he lost his mother and found his father. BB began working at a cotton plantation where he heard the blues and began to join in. BB learnt to love and chase ones dreams from the plantation with the support of those around him. From this he began to busk every chance he got. BB stated that he would play in up to four different towns a night just for his love of the blues and performance. Then BB hitchhiked his way to Memphis, Tennessee. To begin his long career in music.
Past life experience is something that I have seen to be a huge factor in the making of musicians. I can assume that it also has a similar impact on other professions as well. But with the music industry being such a loose field where one can only gain success with determination and unique planning, I believe that past experience is best shown here. In BB Kings area, the link between his past and what he was known for before he died makes a lot of sense. BB was known as a driven, loving person who always had open arms for anybody. I have had the fortunate chance too meet quite a few people who were close with BB throughout his life. They confirmed this. The troubles and strain that BB had in his early life helped him understand how being loving and open towards those around him positively impacts both his and their lives.
A part of this book that I have not yet reached, but I think is going to be in here is a story about a musician named Joe Bonamsassa. Joe was a young musician who was about 13 years old and living in NY who loved the blues. He was playing out often, but struggled to be properly heard and received by those around him. It was not until BB King heard him on the local radio station of where Joe lived that things changed. BB invited Joe to go on tour with him and his band to help introduce Joe to the old blues world. BB said that he saw the passion and determination in Joe and decided to aid in the creation of his career. A lot of blues musicians of today have that opportunity to make something happen for the younger generation. But most of them do not help in the ways that people like BB King did. I think that this is because of their past lives. Modern blues musicians grew up well off and playing the blues. Unlike BB who struggled and found his way through hard work.
Here is a photo of BB and Joe
Something that I have noticed from reading these three books on famous blues musicians is that they all had very unique past lives that heavily affected their careers in many ways. Clapton, for example, had an extremely complicated childhood with the relationships that he had with his guardians. The examples that he had of a true relationship were tainted and his ability to trust people was damaged. This carried on over into his adult life as he had many relationship problems all the way up to his current relationship. As far as trust issues go, Clapton went through a lot of friends and managers due to his lack of trust in them. Jimi's childhood was full of music and encouragement to be different from his father. Thanks to this, Jimi grew up trying to be unique. This uniqueness is a big factor of his success as he did many things that no other musician would even think about doing. Moving onto BB King, King grew up with divorced parents. At the age of 9 he lost his mother and found his father. BB began working at a cotton plantation where he heard the blues and began to join in. BB learnt to love and chase ones dreams from the plantation with the support of those around him. From this he began to busk every chance he got. BB stated that he would play in up to four different towns a night just for his love of the blues and performance. Then BB hitchhiked his way to Memphis, Tennessee. To begin his long career in music.
Past life experience is something that I have seen to be a huge factor in the making of musicians. I can assume that it also has a similar impact on other professions as well. But with the music industry being such a loose field where one can only gain success with determination and unique planning, I believe that past experience is best shown here. In BB Kings area, the link between his past and what he was known for before he died makes a lot of sense. BB was known as a driven, loving person who always had open arms for anybody. I have had the fortunate chance too meet quite a few people who were close with BB throughout his life. They confirmed this. The troubles and strain that BB had in his early life helped him understand how being loving and open towards those around him positively impacts both his and their lives.
A part of this book that I have not yet reached, but I think is going to be in here is a story about a musician named Joe Bonamsassa. Joe was a young musician who was about 13 years old and living in NY who loved the blues. He was playing out often, but struggled to be properly heard and received by those around him. It was not until BB King heard him on the local radio station of where Joe lived that things changed. BB invited Joe to go on tour with him and his band to help introduce Joe to the old blues world. BB said that he saw the passion and determination in Joe and decided to aid in the creation of his career. A lot of blues musicians of today have that opportunity to make something happen for the younger generation. But most of them do not help in the ways that people like BB King did. I think that this is because of their past lives. Modern blues musicians grew up well off and playing the blues. Unlike BB who struggled and found his way through hard work.
Here is a photo of BB and Joe
You know how child actors sometimes have trouble in their later life? Do you think this is the case with musical prodigies as well?
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely! A quick rise to any sort of fame seems to be commonly traumatic for children. Just looking at people like Justin Bieber!
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