When you get a groove going, time flies.
When you get a groove going, time flies.
Now I'm fortunate to have a good band in CA, and play many solo gigs as well. My point is that I stopped playing in bands and played solo for four years, to get back into the groove and pulse of writing and singing and who I am on stage.
If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.
Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.
I was really conscious of that when I went in because I felt that I was pretty solid on the first one, but I didn't have the groove exactly where I wanted it.
A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.
There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.
If you listen to a lot of old funk records, the drums are really small. But you don't perceive it like that because the groove is so heavy.
So I'll set a cycle in motion and pop it into record and I'll lay down a drum pattern, a bass line, a keyboard and guitar part, and once the groove is going I launch into the song and sing my song over the top.
I don't dig staying in one groove.
Once we get into the groove, we're kind of like long-distance runners - that adrenalin kicks in for me and I just keep running - and I don't stop!
When the band would leave the stage, and then the audience would just take over, and keep the groove goin'.
That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in your face. After you got the groove, you were just singing the hooks, because you thought it was cool.
A studio recording is perfection, but emotion and passion come only when you turn on the machine and go for the groove. If you do that with no mistakes, it sounds beautiful.
In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discotheques.
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