Nameless Range
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Are there certain types of music, or musicians, that make you think of a chunk of earth?
This weekend I saw that the Red Hot Chili Peppers released a new single, their first with John Frusciante since their 2006 album Stadium Arcadium.
That album came out the first week of May 2006. As I did back then, I spent the 3rd Saturday of May in the Big Hole Valley, fishing the western Montana opener. I spent 4 days in the valley, fishing blown out streams in snow and rain with a buddy, and this album was the soundtrack. Whenever I hear songs from the album, I think of the Big Hole, and inclement weather, and a different time - and conversely, when I am in the Big Hole, I hear those songs whether they are playing or not.
Another example of melody and geography becoming the same in my memories, is John Denver. When I was young, my mother's best friend worked for a large ranch in SW Montana near Cliff and Wade Lakes. We would basically spend the summers down there camping. This gal owned a blue Chevy Blazer and all she listened to were tapes of John Denver. I must've been 5 or 6, but I can still see the painting of Mickey Mouse on the roof of her rig, there's no seatbelts and I am being bounced around on bad roads, and can smell the cigarette smoke, as we rodded up the Cliff Lake Bench to the sounds of John Denver. At the time it was perfect. He sang beautiful songs about beautiful places, and I knew I was in one. Even now, as I own a cabin in that country, John Denver takes me there when I am not, and when I am there, I feel like listening to John Denver.
How about you? Is there music that in your mind is attached to a place, or vice versa?
This weekend I saw that the Red Hot Chili Peppers released a new single, their first with John Frusciante since their 2006 album Stadium Arcadium.
That album came out the first week of May 2006. As I did back then, I spent the 3rd Saturday of May in the Big Hole Valley, fishing the western Montana opener. I spent 4 days in the valley, fishing blown out streams in snow and rain with a buddy, and this album was the soundtrack. Whenever I hear songs from the album, I think of the Big Hole, and inclement weather, and a different time - and conversely, when I am in the Big Hole, I hear those songs whether they are playing or not.
Another example of melody and geography becoming the same in my memories, is John Denver. When I was young, my mother's best friend worked for a large ranch in SW Montana near Cliff and Wade Lakes. We would basically spend the summers down there camping. This gal owned a blue Chevy Blazer and all she listened to were tapes of John Denver. I must've been 5 or 6, but I can still see the painting of Mickey Mouse on the roof of her rig, there's no seatbelts and I am being bounced around on bad roads, and can smell the cigarette smoke, as we rodded up the Cliff Lake Bench to the sounds of John Denver. At the time it was perfect. He sang beautiful songs about beautiful places, and I knew I was in one. Even now, as I own a cabin in that country, John Denver takes me there when I am not, and when I am there, I feel like listening to John Denver.
How about you? Is there music that in your mind is attached to a place, or vice versa?
