>Travis Edmunds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Rob S wrote: <much snippage> > >What I would like to be able to convey to you is > how it felt when > >people all over the world heard these albums for > the first time and > >***everyone*** was hearing something never heard > before. I don't > >think......aw hell I know you cannot imagine the > excitement these > >albums generated. It was "mind expanding". > >And you really had to be there to "get it". > I don't think so. Long before I ever knew Robert > Seeberger existed, I used > to listen to old school tunes and picture what it > would be like to hear them > for the first time, way back when they were > initially released. And I think > I can appreciate what it was like.
<grin> OK, gonna jump in on this concept -- what you're calling "appreciate" is the equivalent of "sympathize;" whereas to have experienced something is to "empathize." I cannot quite understand my mother's awe and astonishment at a plane going by overhead, as she did when a young girl, all her neighbors young and old out in the streets gawking at the sky -- but if I liken it to my 9-year-old awe at the Moon landing, I come close. "Firsts" are by their very novelty and nature unrepeatable and extraordinary, and to experience a First with others increases the intensity. IMO, of course. ;) Debbi And You Both Ought To Include Rush In Your Discussion! Maru "Then something left the ocean And crawled high above the foam... We still feel that elation! When the water takes us home..." __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
