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  • 'On broadway' is fantastic. I always imagined Mr Benson performing it at a club filled by impeccably dressed (Like George) people at $1000 tables, being served while he provides the entertainment and gets applause breaks during songs.

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  • Dude…

    Beato just caught Benson when Benson in the damn zone!

    Personally, I don’t think Benson is going to be able to sell the badassness of that clip in the original video…

    …but I bet you 99 times out of 100 the person that originally saw that video back in the day had no clue that that is indeed where the skinny is.

    Congrats to the 1 person out of a 100 that got that skinny.

    Rick…you da man for bringing that to light.

    That is indeed some Benson Badness! That sh:t would knock out Rocky Balboa in movie one!

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  • One of the strongest parallels music has to language I find is how once you become fluent in it you stop trying to actively think in terms of function and you just automatically know what you want/should apply at a given point based on how it feels/sounds.

    Think about it— you’ve probably written hundreds of thousands of lines of texts in your life. You’ve probably said millions of individual words, each carefully placed in a meaningful context in order to convey precise, complex, perhaps even beautiful things. Do you ever stop to think about each individual word or phrase? When you write an internet comment do you think in terms of “okay well I want to express this first in first person with an active indicative verb phrase as the main clause and I’m talking About myself so I’m going to use the nominative form of the first person pronoun followed by the active indicative first person form of the verb “to be” then I should use adverbial phrase as a predicate to the first person pronoun “I” to express a state of being satisfied so all together that will be ‘I am very happy’”?

    No, you absolutely don’t think in those terms— you might not even know what some of those terms even mean, but when you say even a simple sentence like “I am very happy” without even thinking about it, you ARE making those choices and decisions in your head dynamically and automatically simply because you are SO familiar speaking/using your native language that it almost seemingly by magic comes to you without any kind of self reflection at all.

    High level playing like this broadly speaking works the same way. Once you’ve gotten to a certain level of mastery over your music/instrument you stop actively thinking in those terms of “oh what key is this? What time signature? Okay what kind of phrases do I know that fits that? What are the chords? Will this phrase make the changes or no?” Etc. And it all becomes passive, you just have an idea of how you want it to sound in your head and you just kind of instinctively play it like that without having to take the time to breakdown how it works in theoretical terms.

    This is something that I think people loose sight of when they hit that dreaded intermediate level plateau of whatever skill they’re practicing. You can’t hunker down on breaking everything down to its core components and theory everytime you play— you have to learn to sense what sounds appropriate/good in a given context and use your familiarity with the instrument to make it happen. The best players don’t break stuff down actively while they’re playing. Much like you and I when we speak using intricate, precise and complex grammar to express ourselves, we only focus on the idea we want to say and let our innate familiarity with the language handle the logistics of it.

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  • This is why I love music it brings us all together doesn't matter where you're from what race you are Jenn or you are blah blah blah leave all the BS at the door to study the things we love

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  • The first outdoor concert I ever went to was at Athletic Park in Wellington NZ in 83 .George Benson was performing with the NZ Symphony Orchestra behind him. He was so good all dressed up in white with frills etc etc. I made sure to attend each and every concert that rolled into NZ from then on. There's something magical being in a stadium with 10's of thousands revelers listening to the music maestro's performing. George Benson yeah he was good.

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  • My uncle was a trumpet player in the 70s and he’d rehearse to George Benson, Chuck Mangione, and Quincy Jones. I remember sitting at the top of the stairs in my PJs listening to him rehearse. It was a magical time!!!

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  • Pure soul turns into pure laughter and smiles. Saw him at the 'baked potato' with joe DeOrio, Ron Escte, and Joe Pass circa 1979. Absolutely amazing! All of these great virtuosos laughed, smiled, cajoled and without tring challenged each other. The chops were original and came from their hearts and souls. My childhood friend, Brian Barrett (amazing guitarist) convinced me to drive him to the potato, from Costa Mesa to Century city (or there abouts). About 60 miles away. We couldn't stop talking about what we witnessed. We were 20 years old then. It changed our guitarist lives. We're now 65 yrs old and still talk about this memory. Thank you Rick ❤

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  • "It's hard to make these 6 strings do what that 1 voice can do." Benson's statement is exactly why Pink Floyd's David Gilmore is a guitar god.

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