{"id":72,"date":"2012-01-26T23:52:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T23:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/post\/2012\/01\/26\/The-Prodigal-Dad-1929-2011"},"modified":"2020-08-11T12:31:48","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T20:31:48","slug":"the-prodigal-dad-1929-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/26\/the-prodigal-dad-1929-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"The Prodigal Dad: 1929-2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

My Dad passed away 2 months ago, from cancer.<\/p>\n

I know Dad was proud of the musical activity of all his children, although as far as I know not much of my personal creativity appealed to him. However I do know that every CD of our music that I burned and gave him was in his CD rack.<\/p>\n

There are many treasured memories to choose from, but one in particular might be appropriate for this forum: Many years ago, I was living at home, and I raided Dad’s toolbox for a pair of wire cutters to trim the ends off the new strings on my guitar. Of course, the hard strings notched the gentle wire cutters, and of course, Dad noticed.<\/p>\n

Instead of getting angry, he went out to the garage and came back with a newish looking pair of Knipex<\/a> wire cutters, handed them to me and said, “This is the right tool for the job”.<\/p>\n

I’ve used this pair to trim my guitar strings ever since. (no sign of notching, yet.)<\/p>\n

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In September I travelled to see Dad when he was in hospital. I played him an unfinished version of a track i was working on, which did not have a title, and I think he appreciated it. It’s hard to tell with Dad sometimes.<\/p>\n

Inevitably, this piece is now associated with Dad and therefore it now has a title, “A Sample Of One<\/a>“, \u00a0which I will not explain here. This month I completed the track, recording the acoustic guitar using\u00a0one of Dad’s Zoom H2 units.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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