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MY DETAILS
BODY TYPE:
Average
SMOKE:
No
ORIENTATION:
Straight
JOB:
Self Employed
RELIGION:
Buddhist
DRINK:
Yes
DATING STATUS:
Married
PREFERRED JAZZ GENRE:
Fusion
MEMBER SINCE: 11/15/2008
STAR SIGN: Libra
LAST LOGIN: 10/06/2009 13:39:26
MY RATING: 0.00

TURN ON'S
The Groove

WEBSITE
http://www.scottfoto.no/index.html

ABOUT ME
I grew up in Glasgow, Scotland.

Back in the '60's early '70's I began to wake up to a lot of things including music: Captain Beefheart, Miles Davis and the blues. Looking back there was a very special vibe in that city at that time but I was only dimly aware of it.

Some years later I heard Weather Report. That inspired me to play myself, so I picked up the Electric Bass and was in a variety of "less than fantastic" bands in Milton Keynes England. Then I had a major crisis of confidence and pretty much decided that my playing sucked big time and gave up altogether for about 30 years.

My love of music and how it connected to something deeper lived on, however, like an undercurrent. That undercurrent came to the surface when, quite spontaneously one day about 3 years ago when I found myself in a the local music store buying a Gibson 335 copy and a little practice amp. What was I thinking of?

Ok, so now I found myself in this position of being seriously challenged by my own decision of 30 years previous. What should I do? Really there wasn't an option. Either I said to myself: “Making music is something you can do if you want it badly enough.” or live with the reality that it was something other people did and I couldn't. The second option was just too depressing whereas the first tuned in to all the positive aspirations and ideas I have tried to relate to over the years. The impossible is possible with the right mental and spiritual attitude — at least that was what I believed intellectually — here was an opportunity to put into practice.

To be continued.

BOOKS
A Brief History of Everything -- Ken Wilber

MUSIC
Anything and everything with a groove. I'm especially fascinated with African music, Middle Eastern music, Latin American. Influences include Joe Zawinul, Fela Kuti, Ale Farka Toure, Django Reinhardt, Bruce Arnold, Patricia Barber, Flora Purim, Kurt Elling, Tribal Tech. I am also very inspired by funk music: The Headhunters, James Brown, The Meters, Tower of Power etc.

MOVIES
"Can't go to the movies coz I ain't got the fare."

HOBBIES
Don't really believe in work so I guess that means I don't really believe in hobbies either.

TURN OFF'S
Things like the idea of work.

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Displaying 10 out of 11 comments
From: thomasmulder
10/06/2009 12:54:57

Happy BBBB Day,, Many more.. Tom               

From: Guitarcat
10/06/2009 10:23:17

Happy Birthday!  

~Cat

From: Robin_Pitigliano
11/18/2008 18:00:14


EirikVarg wrote:


Thanks for your friendship request -- I wanted to listen to your music before replying.


I like very much that mellow feel.


 


Thanks Eirik....it's much appreciated.


Peace ~ Robin

From: ulfskei
11/18/2008 14:48:41


EirikVarg wrote:

Skei,

You wrote: "I'm not happy about it, but practice will take my mind off misery and a lonely christmas. I'm glad I have jazz at least"

Ouch ! Thats a tough one to say the least and, having been there myself many years ago, my thoughts go out to you.

We all know about  turning such things into a positive as big as the negative x10 but such knowledge doesn't make it any less painful, or one touch easier to deal with.  The whole xmas thing in our society really emphasises the lonely thing and that doesn't help at all.

What has helped me to cope with this time of year better, and it something really struggle with,  is to tune into the sun cycle which is something very real in a sense way beyond Gingle Bells. A groove where there is a kind of slowing down to almost a full stop, at the Solstice, and then the motor kicks in again to take us on into the next cycle.

Well, I'll do my best to get something positive out of this. I know I like sleeping late in the morning, and that's something I haven't been able to do for the last 12 years, so that's a positive right there. And I can pull out my painting stuff again, which has been buried in a storeroom for all these years almost. And sit at night writing without thinking I might disturb somebody. So there are lots of tiny rays of sun in this grey storm. And being able to take my guitar and sit somewhere outside for hours without thinking somebody might want me to do this or that. Yes, there certainly are a number of things that might improve. And being a buddhist I think things happen, for a cause, and there is meaning in it all, it's about growing, about connecting to the whole, about the interconnectedness of all beings and entities. It may sound daft, but when things happen, well, it's not that I suspect a conspiracy or anything, but in the long run it usually adds up to something that may improve the situation. But then again, when something like this with my old friend happens, I wonder where the positive may hide itself. No use trying to understand it right now, it may become clearer eventually, we shall see.

Peace

Skei (the slightly confused by reality one, but then again, what IS reality? How can we know the real from the unreal? But then again, I think, therefore I am...)

From: ulfskei
11/18/2008 11:55:44


EirikVarg wrote:

Hei Ulfskei,

Sorry it took some time to get back to you in response to your message. I wanted to listen to your music first ......

. . . ..  which I have to say I like very much: especially "into the desert." and "soft mood" 

I have some way to go -- around 2 years at present speed of travel -- to be on this level. I read somewhere a couple of days ago that it might take around 10,000 hours of "practice" to achieve real mastery in any artistic endeavour. That sound about right to me on the basis that 10,000 is a very large number.

It feels like there comes a point where "The Muse" will ask you the question of how serious you are about what you do. A commitment will be required to move forward -- at some point total commitment. I am travelling forward to that point and ready to make my statement when the time is right. The 5 string fretless electric bass guitar will probably be the means.

I live in Stavanger where my life just now revolves around doing the minimum of work I need to do to live on and having the max time to get into modes and some simple stuff from the Middle East.  I'm also very preoccupied with the idea "Surviving Materialism" and moving towards a very different consciousness based on that idea. 

This leads to the idea of a "Jazz Cafe" which would be a place, real virtual -- preferably both,  where music in the spirit of P Jazz and minimalist luxurient nutrition would be the order of the day . .  and night.

Peace

Scott

Scott,

You sound like a serious minded person, so I'm sure your jazz cafe will be a huge success! Well, for me it has taken leaving all else aside to get on the right track to eventually (some day) master Bebop guitar. It may be 10 000 hours, I have nothing else important to do, I'm jobless (unemployed), in a week I'll be moving one way and wife+daughter sadly enough the other way. So there'll be no distractions, just practice...

I'm not happy about it, but practice will take my mind off misery and a lonely christmas. I'm glad I have jazz at least.

I've mostly been around Aalesund when in norway, as my father's parents lived there, and I love the village. Also Dönna, where the family's from, we've got lots of relatives there, and the Skei homestead still exists. I love the coast line, the wild and somewhat like Scotland image, I like Scotland too, used to go about in a car and do a lot of camping in Britain when I was younger, I like it there, nice people, and good bitter, not to mention the whisgae, a smoky 12 year old friend during cold winter nights. Yup.

Gudbrandsdalen is another fav holiday place (or places, it's quite extended) for camping, now I have to stop quoting holiday sites, and enjoy the last few days with my family, sad, but life sometimes does that, plays tricks on you, and smiles at you to see how you react.

Peace

Skei

From: Brock
11/18/2008 11:36:00


EirikVarg wrote:

Hi Brock,

Thanks for your greeting and your music. "Mellow jazz" and "Falling Blues" both communicate from depth to me.

Welcome and Thank you!

Hope you enjoy it here!

From: Robin_Pitigliano
11/17/2008 19:15:42

Hi Eirik,


Thanks for the friendship.


Peace ~ Robin

From: Brock
11/15/2008 13:59:02

Welcome to the site! Enjoy your stay.

From: ulfskei
11/15/2008 10:41:29

Hi Erik! As my family comes from Aalesund I think it's ok to say Hi!

We have relatives in mid Norway, and we (me and my family) live in mid Sweden. But I always long for the area around Aalesund and the Isles up against Lofoten, we're an old family of fishermen, and the wind and the sea is always inside me.

Peace- Skei (the Aalesund one)


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