Is your heart filled with a love of music, or something else?

Stuartk,
Thanks for the response. 

....and, excellent comments about rap/music also. I agree in every count and have expressed the same sentiment several times here.

Re “frictions that arise”: I also agree, but would temper that sentiment with the idea that it is not always inappropriate to know and be confident in being right on a particular topic or issue. Being confident in being right is not necessarily driven by “the need to be right”. Relativism is appropriate only up to certain point. How we deal with and treat each other is the key.

Bdp24-

Thought I'd drop a comment here, as I thought you would appreciate it. A neighbor had a BBQ yesterday. One of those "should have been at the right place" kind of talents.  

He had a good friend over- drummer Harold Brown-original member of War with Eric Burdon.

Not very familiar with the band ,and just familiar with their radio hits from the 70's, I quickly realized I'm a  step closer to R&R history.

Harold was the LAST dude to jam with Jimi before his untimely passing.  He had some VERY fascinating stories that went from Big Mama Thornton to a gig he was supposed to be doing with Tupac Shakur.

A very fortunate, genuine guy who experienced the scene as it was once was. Also shared a bit about the even more interesting scene that was going on in SoCal at the time. Discovered he grew up in Long Beach, attended the same H.S. as myself.

He is now just enjoying his life and appears relatively healthy.

It really is a small world. A former co worker was a schoolmate with Mick in England. Now I've come close as I'll ever get to the legends.

I made sure I shook his hand with a VERY firm grip and with the other a handful of shoulder.

If the situation would have permitted, I would have invited him over for a listen and asked endless questions about his experiences.

Great story @tablejockey! If I had been at the Bar-B-Q, Harold and I would have been discussing Earl Palmer, the New Orleans drummer whom I and others credit with creating Rock ’n Roll drumming (okay, D.J. Fontana deserves some credit too ;-).

I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that Harold had gone to Chadney’s Restaurant in Burbank in the 1990’s to hear Earl’s jazz band, as I and many other drummers did. Living, breathing Rock ’n’ Roll history, right there in front of me onstage. It was surreal!

I took an old friend of mine from San Jose (now making a living playing bass in Los Straitjackets, his first instrument was drums) to hear Earl, and he later brought him in to his studio (16-track analog) to record with a Rockabilly singer he was producing. Earl had not received a demo tape of the material, just came to the session "cold". All three songs, first takes, perfect.

frogman:

"Re: “frictions that arise”: I also agree, but would temper that sentiment with the idea that it is not always inappropriate to know and be confident in being right on a particular topic or issue. Being confident in being right is not necessarily driven by “the need to be right”. Relativism is appropriate only up to certain point. How we deal with and treat each other is the key.

You make excellent points. 

I certainly didn't mean to imply that "the need to be right" is always operating in every case-- only that it's one factor that, acting as an uncoscious driver of behavior, has the capacity to lead to unneccessary friction-- or, as you might put it--  to people not "treating each other" well.