Lockstep

I have been visiting the websites of schools here in Indiana learning about each school. It is amazing how similar their belief systems are from school to school. In fact, from school to the media.

Here is a school that celebrates "Peace Day".

What is Greed - What Is Self Interest?

Phil Keaggy- Musical Genius

I had to ask myself if in my old age I am becoming just more overly appreciative of everything- even the "not-so-good" things. But on the other hand, maybe I have just been really fortunate in the last two concerts, they have been absolutely stunning -artists at the top of their craft, the best in their field.

Previously it was Alison Krauss and Union Station. No one, I mean NO ONE can combine words and song in the progressive bluegrass style like they.

Then last night it was Phil Keaggy.

Trying to describe his music in print is impossible, but so inspired am I, that I have to try.

For every word that he sang, he must have had 5,000 colors of sound to describe it. Then, he proceeded to play those 5,000 sounds in perfect order, shades of colors that blew the mind. Talented (the word) doesn't come close to describing Phil Keaggy. He is some kind of spiritual creature birthed by God for the sole purpose of treating we plebes to what heaven will sound like.

Although his guitar fingering was purely amazing in itself, he combined electricity to find new colors within his guitar. I'm not a guitarist, but he had 4 boxes on the floor that would do things like repeat bars that he would play in repetitive sequence while he would harmonize to it live on the second pass and beyond.

He used mini-cymbals, rattler eggs and metal bars to strike the strings to produce the most interesting effects. Another thing about his playing was his sense of rhythm. He used his guitar as a drum that he would sequence into the computer to playback in loop as he played live on top.

He was a poor kid in FAO Schwartz. It was entertaining just to watch him play.

Add to all that, his quotes from C.S. Lewis, poetry in song and revealing of scripture. It was a musical tribute to the grace of God.

The concert cost $7 per seat, but I would have paid $7 for just one song.