Musical Collaborations
Winding down from a very difficult week in which I lost a dear friend and brilliant musical collaborator: Rick Kocor. For a tribute to Rick please see my wife Carrie's blog http://www.carriepr.blogspot.com.
Watching the wonderful musical collaborations of Rachel Fuller, Mikey Cuthbert, Pete and Simon Townshend on their web broadcasts of "In The Attic" is one of the things that's keeping me going right now. Their interaction and positive feedback for one another reminds me of my collaborations with my dear friends Rusty Fallis, Dan Satterberg and Rick in what we like to call the Writer's Group. We all brought our songs to this collaboration and then tried to do whatever we could to help "realize" each other's songs. While artistic creation is primarily a private and personal enterprise, all writers need a good, nuturing environment for the next phase of creation: Showing your song to someone else and hoping for approval. This is really where a "Writers Group" aids the creative process.
Soon, I hope to post some of my poetry and songs and make this blog more interesting. But, in the meantime, as Mikey likes to say "Give us a shout" and let me know who's out there. The creative process of blog writing needs approval too!
posted by Tom Pratt at 2:12 PM
2 Comments:
Tom, you and Rick played such beautiful music together! You should post some of your songs you have written with Rick, Rusty and Dan on this blog so others can enjoy them.
Carrie
I'm so sorry you have lost a friend, I cannot truly understand how you must be feeling, I wish you all the best. I will also take this opportunity to thank you for your support and heart-felt comments, you have inspired me.
I'm glad you are finding solice from 'in the attic', that is far more than I ever thought we could acheive. Thankyou again Tom, for your great words of support on my blog, and the tender words you have shared on yours.
mikey
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