Nothing compares to live talented musicians. Chas, sorry nothing but harps in heaven, although I understand that IPods an IPads are allowed.

Groves, are the heart of music. Disco music is one big grove. Latin music has the most groves of all. My forms of Latin music place a repeated IIm7 – V7 progression in the middle of a song to allow the musician to get into a grove. I say this with tongue-in-cheek, if you try playing a grove on a keyboard it never happens. A grove needs emotion which includes constant changes in a musician’s playing. This is one of the reasons we sometimes become bored with our keyboards; we want them to make us feel and can’t.

When disco first came out my sax player was right on; he didn’t know what he was doing and only later did we begin to understand what the word grove meant. When a musician gets into a repetitive grove he has a chance to let out what’s inside of him. When a musician with little talent gets into a grove you hear a beat and a lot of notes with no meaning; it does not go anywhere. There were times when the band got into a grove and reached a high that left an excitement; it was our way of getting HIGH.

Boy do I miss those times, John C.

PS, Today my best grove is getting out of bed and going to the keyboard and playing five foot two with a few extra notes thrown in. aaaaaaaaaaaaah!