craigb
Stevie Wonder walks into a bar...
Funny or sad, this is bad. I have seen blind folks that could see way better than we do. (Santa Barbara is the place!) One of them, used to have over 1K record albums, all UNMARKED, and he could tell you what each and every one of them was! The other, was a nut case, but a great fun one, in that he used to joke about us always needing some light to walk in his place, and increase his electrical bill! His main fun? On Sunday Nights he used to listen to Space Pirate Radio, and then hear this or that ... and on Monday Morning, after the show, he would get on 101 and hitchhike to Moby Disk (when it was on Victory Blvd before its move to Ventura Blvd), get the particular album and more, and then hitchhike back ... and immediately wake Guy up and tell him ... I got the new Banco that just came in! ... and this would get played the following Sunday ...
And of course, listen to Rachel Flowers ... and you gotta figure that the not being able to see helps with the musical concentration we don't have ... and she can play and do stuff that we can not even dream about trying!
Give it a break ... only folks that have no idea what "sight" is all about, will joke on it. But, in my life, a couple of blind folks were far more with it and interesting than many other folks. It would be a treat, to be able to talk to Stevie, or Rachel, or even Ray (before he left us), or Jose ... because their perspective on music and "notes" is something that most of us do NOT understand!
Maybe we're afraid that we have made music really poorly because of our eyes ... we can't see "beyond" the stuff we work with!
Please, not for my sake, but refrain from joking about these abilities ... there is always someone that can show you how wrong you are in your attitude about it. A bit more for rear-enders ... Loren could black wire telephones ... and show you how to do it.