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One must desire something to be alive - Margaret Deland
From the minute me and my brother Sizz left the home, we knew that there was bigger and more greater things to come than what we'd had endured to that point. We were only 16 but be damned if we were going to get intimidated. We were headstrong, stubborn as all fuck and determined. We were going to become somebody.
We both knew that music was going to be something of a new playing field for us. The dusty, baseball diamond was yesterdays place for letting out the frustrations. Knock a couple out of the park, run until our thighs burned and sweat dripped off our brows. That was the only permissable way we were allowed to be mad, but then, as we stood on the steps and saw the world from 6 stairs up, we knew curveballs would take on a whole new meaning.
The minute I picked up my first pair of bongos I knew I'd get a hell of alot more satisfaction out of beating the shit out of my bad day. It would console me through rhythmical tribal beats that my own fingers create and it ease my soul. Give me a reason to stop and think, meditate over the matter without realizing it and take away my problems.
Music became my woman, my comfort and desire in the form of a small drum that needed no stick. Only my hands.
It made me alive.
Now there is a real woman in my life. Music leads on and has given me so much in return, but there was nothing more than the skins to touch and the sounds it made. Maybe it has given me something more. I'll never know, but this woman is every greatest piece I have ever put together. She is exotically beautiful, spirited and desirous and I lose myself every time I touch her.
She is the music I respect, personified. A great symphony of life and a muse like none other.
Channing Vale makes me feel more alive than I've ever felt before.