These summer days give me some time to listen to the radio in the car and as one is tired of hearing unpleasant news because I choose a music station. On Radio 3, José Miguel López's program, Discópolis, has been talking about the Golden Rock Decade for a couple of weeks, from 1966 to 1975. José Miguel López maintains the thesis that in the decade between 1966 and 1975 became the best music in Rock History, because then it was about moving forward, progressing, moving forward and making each album better than the previous one. The announcer believes that it was not sought to achieve or define a brand, as it seems to be happening today, but rather it developed musical creativity.
And that is a bit of what I wanted to talk about. How do musicians keep creativity when they stop being children? I also read in Yorokobu annotations about Jack White, which basically explains that ruitna is the enemy of creativity and that is why in each concert the musician puts on challenges, obstacles, anticipates what can happen and likes to pass the tests in case they happen. Your challenge is to work hard and add tension using resources that can facilitate creativity. Jack indicates that when he goes on stage and everything is perfectly prepared, what can be achieved is a boring concert.
In what other musicians can we look to see how creativity is maintained over time?
For example, in the image you can see Juan Dog, the name that Santiago Auserón has chosen. Juan Perro's musical career is full of successes, and the effort and work that this musician dedicates is such that his songs, from any age, remain alive, fresh, cheerful, honest and also allow new developments and adaptations as Sit and run the artist. We had occasion to see Juan Perro recently live. A performance in a small theater, of those that still shows the contact with the public although everyone knows who the protagonist is. And the creative moment, at least one of them, came when Juan Perro realized that the acoustics of the theater allowed him to sing without a microphone. And to sing without a microphone, naked with accompaniment except for Joan Vinyals guitar, his own voice and the undulation of his body without falling into the ridiculous it is necessary to have a lot of experience, a lot of talent and be very close to excellence.
Another example of talent and creativity is Bruce springsteen that despite the fact that their concerts sound too perfect and round, their ability to endure hours on stage and their experience is such that musicians are able to start with any song and, above all, follow their boss wherever they consider it.
What if, there are boring concerts that although the musicians are wonderful, brave and with great trajectory, however they do not transmit. They are boring, without substance and capable of creating a huge opaque wall between the stage and the audience. When you see that a musician that you have admired and loved comes to you, this moment makes you feel sad and sad.
And it is that creativity arises from work, effort, dedication, experience and you also have to take risks, see the possibilities as Jack White says and dare to execute them as Juan Perro does. And be persistent and endure as Bruce Springsteen does.
So To stimulate the creativity of the kids you can choose good music, good songs, good artists. That decade that José Miguel López commented requires a revision and obtaining one of the records of that time. At home we have some of them and whenever we can we do not miss the opportunity to program them. Maybe some corner of children's creativity is stimulated. And that is always very interesting.
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