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Originally Posted by rgcraig
From the article -- now that is just sad. Here's a man that admits it's just emotion sometimes and that he controlled it.
"I was the piano player in a service one night several years ago; we were singing some old Pentecostal worship chorus..."He Set Me Free" or something similar...people were going nuts. At one particular place in the chorus, I would do one of my little Jerry Lee "Killer" runs, and the congregation would "worship" even more frantically. I watched with complete detachment (I wasn't feeling a thing) as "my" music controlled the temperature of the congregation. Almost like a scientist in a lab out to prove a theory, I went into a very passive mode of playing for about two passes of the chorus...the worship toned down, the shouters quit shouting, the jumpers quit jumping...and then, at the appropriate time, WHAM! I did my little "Goodness gracious, great balls 'o' fire!" run and hit the keyboard wide open...The place went absolutely berserk again."
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Sad, but oh so true. When you are acting you can make people really cry. I've done that. Cry over a plot that is not even real. (lol) You can get people emotionally into what you are saying, playing, doing. People are emotional.
I think we forget what accolades we place on talented people. You can be at a party and if a doctor is present, people gravitate and think he/she has all the answers. People do that with teachers.
Musicians - well - how cool is that? - we put them up on a pedastal.
Hollywood actors/actresses. The way they push their agendas as if they were gods/goddesses!
None of this is surprising. We are always looking for a "king" to crown. It's just human nature, IMO.
The person receiving that crown? He/she had better be careful when they put it on - it comes with a price.
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