w(h)ither music?

... I've been sorting out my tags (low in the sidebar) - weeding out useless ones and generally tidying up - and I realise how little I've posted about music. If you'd asked me six months ago what I was most likely to post about, music would have been at the top of the list - it's always been important to me, right from a very young age. It has often acted as a relief valve for strong emotion - music often moves me to tears.
And music has never been a passive pursuit - I've always played or sung, and even when listening, it's an active emotional and thinking experience - in fact I can hardly begin to explain how I experience music...

Since October my guitars have sat almost entirely unplayed - it is usually too physically painful, but more significantly it is emotionally painful, because I find it impossible to express myself adequately - RA has robbed me of facility and accuracy - and it has also made me question whether it is worth playing at all, when I can't play as well as I used and I may, fairly soon, be robbed of my capacity to play at all. So you go for it Purkul...

I used to go to loads of gigs/concerts - all sorts - rock, folk, blues, classical, jazz, musicals - I'm a complete musical tart - but I hardly go to any gigs now; the truth is, I hardly go out at all any more - I'm mostly too tired and uncomfortable...
And I've realised today that I'm not listening to recorded music any more - it must be a couple of weeks since I last put a CD on.

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