.. hmm. Well put.

I've made reference to it a couple of times, but It's All Gone Pete Tong was one of the saddest movies for me. Watching someone who's life was music go deaf really hurt.

That's my greatest fear - going deaf, and I actually imagine it sometimes. And then I think of ways around it. I'd think to myself, "If I ever went deaf, I'd be like Beethoven." I think about how I'd have to memorize what each note sounds like, and play things back over and over in my head. Little bit by little bit ...

That's such a great post. I commented over that way, too.

B-Lim? Beethoven-Lim? Knock on wood, KNOCK ON WOOD!

That kind of scares me .. I'm heavily influenced by the music I hear. Does that mean I'm not a musician, but an engineer?

I hope not! (I hope I'm original, somewhere.)

I realized that I already answered this question in a song I wrote last year. I uploaded the song to my page tonight so it should show up soon. The song is called Remember When and it is a better answer than the one I wrote previously. The library in the song was the public library in the town I grew up in. It was inside our block so I was allowed to play there (I didn't have to cross any streets). Some of us used to climb along the upper story ledge and jump. If you hit the ground with a forward roll you could do it without breaking anything. It was flying. When I did that I was Steve Austin or Tony Stark. It was great. Years later, playing guitar up on the stage in front of a crowd.....same rush.

Drummers are musicians - contrary to what all the jokes say.

http://www.projectopus.com/node/8239

I'm a musician because...
"An explanation for one of the most enduring mysteries of human experience, which is the question of why resonances in musical instruments and the rhythmic beating of drums have such a powerful ability to evoke the deepest emotional response in the human soul. I propose that the musical instrument represents man's first modest success at replicating the physical principle behind biological computation, and the strong emotional response evoked by these inanimate resonances reflects an unconscious recognition of the essential affinity between mind and music."
a quote from this article
Gestalt and vibratory energies