Transcendent Solo #1

Sid Page -violin – “I Scare Myself” – Strike It Rich – Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks – 1972 – Solo @ 2:20

Sid Page takes risks here, expanding the hipster country swing of the band, reaching into the to extend beyonds the bounds of fiddle playing, propelling his technical skills into the stratosphere, creating this spectacular solo.

Stolen Slippers

Footloose,
Untethered,
Stolen.

Or if you believe such things,
Simply slipping through
Invisible portals,
Vanishing without warning.

Worn out steps of dancing feet.
Previously confident ,
Across the path of practice,
Passages of musical time
Indefinitely suspended.

Once loved evidence of  
Masterful pointes and whirling pirouettes,
Retired by inevitable exhaustion.

Hiding in plain sight,
Consumed by the greengrass cloak
Of enigmatic loss,
This mystery of misplacement
Happens to us all.

Like the consequence of stolen moments,
Disrupting the order of things,
It produces a void,
And a haunted memory of things
That can never be replaced.