You know things are good in your life when you get to share your world and the things you enjoy most with people who share your passions. Time goes away, and your energy level goes off the charts. It doesn't happen often, but I bet most of my music friends know what I'm talkin about.
Well, it happend to me this last weekend when the "Echos of Erin" tour came to Rome - Clarie and I were lucky enough to have two of the musicans stay at our house Saturday - Conor Moriarity and Paul McMahon. We emjoyed their company and both are really neat people. When they got to our house we went down to my music room and started playing tunes and jamming and didn't stop for nearly two hours. Not only were we playing, but we were really communiciating musically as well. Gave me chills. We played some Irish, but they wanted to play some other stuff too. Paul grabbed my bass (he never played one) and in short order was showing that his rythym guitar skills were transferrable. Conor is one of the worlds best acoridan players, and showed that he can improvise anything. We made stuff up in different keys and had a ball. Is anything more fun? Well, yes - it got better!!!!
After their outstanding concert, we went to the Mill. The session was Brilliant, Legendary, Genius - all those terms those Irishmen like to use. Most of the Echos folks, plus the core players from Craobh Dugan went at it for almost two hours. And I got to sit in the middle near Paul, Conor, Maura Walsh and hear em all while I plunked away on my mandolin. Felt good to keep up on some of the tunes, and I was glad to play rythym on some of the real fast ones.
I hope they come back this way again......
Awesome!
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