Ed Vadas: The way I see it!

My health situation leaves me so tired these days. Playing gigs is energizing until 20 minutes after the last tune, when I feel like I have been rolled in a carpet and beat with baseball bats. The adrenalin rush of playing makes it all worthwhile, but the nights when there is little support from the audience...well, I drain early and the night seems endless. Those times make a performer ask why not stay at home? Luckily, I have been fortunate to have mostly good gigs with the audience sustaining me until the end.

There is the larger question of "Why do this? Why carry on?” Some days it is easy to reply..."It is the music!” Other times it is more difficult to come to terms with.

I believe that my approach to this music called blues is unique to a genre assaulted with single string guitar wankers, overplaying harmonica owners, and singers who sing because someone has to, rather than someone wants to.

I firmly believe that E E Cummings was correct when he wrote in a poem "Since feeling is first, care not what the matter be" It isn't the riffs, solos, or prowess on any instrument or voice that makes a great evening with the blues... It is the
believability factor that makes it great. The idea of the audience believing they are in the now with the performer. Free to sample the buffet of emotions set forth in the performance. I am not surprised if readers disagree. There are so little genuine feelings being expressed in this genre now that audiences seem to have ceased making it a pre-requisite to the blues.
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