My Favorite Musical Moments

This is an ever changing list.

1. The funky ass intro to If You Have To Ask by The Red Hot Chili Peppers.
2. The ending to Bold As Love by Jimi Hendrix.
3. Seeing Anthony Kiedis dancing like a native at White River.
4. The opening to Big Swifty by Frank Zappa.
5. The Doors on Ed Sullivan.
6. Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison.
7. Miles Davis' trumpet piercing the solitude on Blue in Green.
8. The greek rhythm at the end of Girl by The Beatles.
9. The painful and heartbreaking look Kurt Cobain had on his face at the end of Where Did You Last Night?
10. The end of Scar Tissue by The Red Hot Chili Peppers.
11. Golden Slumbers.
12. Wax Simulacra going into Goliath.
13. Crowd surfing and making eye contact with Omar Rodriguez-Lopez
14. Washing my hands next to Slide Hampton.
15. Making eye contact with Roy Hargrove.
16. The bridge into the second chorus on Omission by John Frusciante.
17. The fills towards the end of When The Levee Breaks by Led Zeppelin.
18. The solo on Come As You Are by Nirvana
19. Soul Sacrifice drum solo: Mikael Shrive.
20. Machine Gun on January 1st, 1970. Hendrix baby.
21. John Frusciante high as fuck singing the bridge of Under The Bridge of French TV.
22. Giant Steps by John Coltrane.
23. St. Louis Blues by Dizzy Gillespie.
24. Whenver Dizzy scats.
25. Playing Funk Revolution with my band today.
26. Playing my Martin in France.
27. Playing my dad's guitar.
28. Playing guitar with my mom's best friend.
29. Hearing my piano teacher talk about Berklee and John Coltrane and Miles Davis.
30. Maggot Brain by Eddie Hazel.
31. All of Freaky Styley by The Red Hot Chili Peppers.
32. The Acid Synth sessions with PBnJahn.
33. John Frusciante's angelic harmonies on Stadium Arcadium.
34. Time by Pink Floyd.
35. Singing/Guitaring to Free Bird in Kutz's car.
36. Feeling like I could actually play jazz well ( a rare feeling).
37. Recording Blue Bossa at the EMP.
38. Being complimented for the first time ever on my playing. Yesterday.
39. The beautiful melody of Concierto De Aranjuez.
40. Air conducting Dies Irae in my room.
41. Conducting Mozart's 25th in G minor.
42. Conducting Beethoven's Ode To Joy.
43. Painfully singing through Phantom Limb.
44. Association music with phases of my life.
45. Listening to Meow play Ronda Alla Turca whenever I ask her to.
46. My piano teacher laughing whenever he ends a song on a dominant type or maj7 chord.
47. Playing blues with Kutz, and trying to figure out that his diminished chord is not in fact a diminished chord at all
48. Being astonished by prodigal 6 year olds playing Chopin or that asian guy with two guitars who plays the Simpson's theme.
49. Finding musicians who think just like you do.
50. Finding musicians who challenge you to be better.
51. Looking at old pictures to see just who you resemble out of your long deceased relatives.
52. Playing music right next to the drummer.
53. Finishing any sort of musical project.
54. Dreaming about Berklee, and the east coast in general.
55. Realizing the vastness of musical history to be found in New York.
56. Visualizing the ocean of inspiration that is music.
57. When the notes just come out effortlessly.

Surely more to come.....