I'm With The Band
"...being a bass player is a lot like being a minister. You lay down the beat, trying to keep it solid and true. Sometimes your job is to keep it steady enough to allow others to shine, to sing, to play, and to dance, as God wants us to. Other times, it's the bass that makes it funky and adds a needed surprise. But the bass is just one part of the band, and alone, it doesn't sound like much.
For people who are drawn to music, the mystery that draws us into the bands we love the most, is that we know it's not just about the one. The notes and sounds come together, the different people play their roles, and yet what is produced transcends all that. It's like when you become a member of the body of Christ—you join a band that is way better than you are, and the next tour is always just beginning."
I'm With the Band
5 comments:
Had coffee with a muso from church this week - he so gets this!
Mate... blogging every other day... leaving the first comment on your own blog posts...
I feel like thought my blog might be gone, you're carrying on the spirit of it.
Anyway, glad your coffee went well.
Well that would be true except my blog has always been. Wafting, gambolling, its aroma permeating to those I think of its progeny...other bloggers. So yes the Rhett Snell blog may have gone the way of so many others, but this humble, sometimes prolific, occasionally profound, more often paused but always prosaic blog persists.
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The quote is good. I like to think of myself as a saxaphone.
So many ways to interpret the sax metaphor...
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