Tuesday, June 08, 2010

Art and Music as Brain Conductivity

by Pete Holly

In hard times the first thing that School Systems
cut are the arts and especially Music.They do this because they percieve
that these classes are unnessasary.They do this because they are unaware
of the vital role that Art and Music play in creating better student's.
Thousands of tests all show the same result.Students who are
exposed to Art and music learn much more rapidly than those who
have been givin' no art or music instruction.The quickist way to way
to reduce the percentage of students who do well in thier studies is
to eliminate Arts and Music from the curiculum.
This fact is based on decades of testing and study and every time
the students who had Art and music available to them did better in all
thier studies than those who did not !
Why is it that Art and music play such a vital role in getting the most
Students to excell ?
It's appears that art and music activate brain activity more than
every other subject combined.MIR scans show that it is only art and
music that light up every part of the human Brain.
Why is it that only art and music can activate the brain so completely?
One reason i believe is that a painting or a Great piece of music are both
very complex and so it takes all of the Brain's power to decipher either
one.{i.e. it's not like mowing the lawn or taking out the garbage}
So i guess you could say that Art and Music act as lightswitch's
for the Brain.When the light switch is turned on we see an incredibly
complex world-seemingly infinatly complex.When the light swith is
turned off-we see very little but darkness all around.We never learn
how to understand complex idea's and so the world makes little sense
to us;and eventually we give up trying.

Written by Pete Holly-2010-copyright-all rights reserved

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The Proverbial Stuck on a Desert Island CD list

To be honest-i could write thousands of these lists,but,i decided i would just
write down the first 25 cd's that popped-up in my mind.

written by Pete Holly

1."Revolver"-The Beatles
2."Mott"-Mott the Hoople
3."Runt,The Balled of Todd Rundgren"-Todd Rundgren
4."Who's Next"-The Who
5."Today"-The Beach Boy's
6."California Day's and Nights"-The Beach Boy's
7."Court and Spark"-Joni Mitchell
8."Live at Leeds"-The Who
9."Rubber Soul"-The Beatles
10."Sincerely"-Dwight Twilly Band
11."Quadraphenia"-The Who
12."Tim Moore"-Tim Moore
13."Please Please Me"-The Beatles
14."Born to Run"-Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
15."Born in the U.S.A.-Bruce Springsteen
16."Laura Nyro's First"-Laura Nyro
17."Let it Be"-The Beatles
18."Countdown to Extasy"-Steely Dan
19."Can't Buy a Thrill"-Steely Dan
20."Something/Anything-Todd Rundgren
21."Autobahn"-Kraftwork
22."The Who Sell Out"-The Who
23."The Best of John Coltrane{Atlantic}-John Coltrane
24."The Balled of Todd Rundgren"-Todd Rundgren
25."Todd"-Todd Rundgren


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Saturday, June 05, 2010

"The Look's" Never Were A Garage Band

by Pete Holly

"The Look's" never were a garage band.Our biggest audience at
the peak of our popularity here in Boise,were Jr. High and High School Students.
To them we were just a Rock' n Roll Band.Nobody ever called the music we played
Garage Band music,Frankly,because we didn't play any garage band songs.Unlike
All the other bands on The Voxx Album-"The Battle of the Garages" our song
wasn't a remake of a old Garage Band song and the style of the song owes alot
more to Devo,Television and The Clash.Those were the bands that inspired
me to write "Look Out Below"not any old 60's Garage Band.Our song got put
on the album completely by accident.We didn't know anything about the
Contest.We were just sending out the Demo tape we'd made to all sorts of
Label's and our Drummer-Lenny Montoya suggested we send one to Bomp.
I'd never heard of Bomp but Lenny grew up in East L.A. so he was familiar
the label,Lenny knew alot of things about L. A. that Mitch and i didn't so i
just said O.K.-If Lenny thinks it's a good idea to send a copy of our demo
To this Label in L.A.-He knows alot more about L.A. than i do so i just took
him at his word that it was a good label to send our demo to-and so we did.
So that's how we got labeled as a garage band.Because "Look Out
Below' got chosen by Greg Shaw to be on the Album.It was the first time we'd
ever been called a garage band.The Demo also had "Are You Gonna Be My Girl"
on it.The first time i called Greg he said "Pete Holly amd the Look's ? "Oh Yeah,
your the band with the Merseybeat Song".That's when i talked Greg into letting
us record a single.I think Greg knew all along that we really weren't like any of the
other bands on "The Battle of the Garages".The Demo tape we'd sent to him had
three original songs on it.I wrote,arranged and Produced all three of them and
none of them were garage band songs.The style of the songs on the Demo tape
were the style of my own that i'd developed over 10 years of songwriting.My
Biggest influences were Mott the Hoople,The Beatles,The Who,Bob Dylan,
Todd Rundgren,and The Beach Boys.
We were the only band that Greg put on both "The Battle Of Garages"
and the compilation album "Expieriments in Destiny" which contained recordings
that sounded more modern.He put the version i had produced on the "Battle" album
and he put the studio version on "Expieriments in Destiny".So i believe Greg knew
all along that we were a band that could play many differant styles-because we were.
The only label he ever put on my music was when he wrote me a letter and it said
i still had that "cool sound".
So that's the true version of what really happened and who our infuences
really were.What can i say-things just happened the way they happened.I was
allways just trying to write the best songs i could.I didn't have any control-and
i still don't-over what label gets put on them.

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Wednesday, June 02, 2010

Poetry

by Pete Holly

We are born innocent-
but don't long stay that way,
We climb higher Mountains,
and some times lose our way-

A Shepard to guide us-
for we often get lost-
that's reason's cavelery,
to find the holy spirit within'-

Once what was so easy to see-
For now-we are blinded-
In one eye at least-the other see's much-
thou - slanted like a tree,

So here i am,
with one good eye,
I can still sail the sea's-
and can wisper to my uncharted love-
I sail fast above,
Sail on forever
-'tis Easter



Written by Pete Holly-copyright-2010-all rights reserved

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