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Introduction: Life like music I believe, can take us through so many roads, so many different paths, traveling through city after city, but more importantly we also learn other things from so many people we meet along the way. That is the beauty of life itself.
Having said that and at my present age it's always a non-stop day, a full day of things to do around here. I am busy, yes, but I still find the time to read music appreciation books, currently reading two books on the powerful impact of 'music and the arts' ... [the music healthy human experience] ... and of course love military jets/love the beautiful sound of the flute.
I do have other interests such as world history, United States history, photography, computers, AI, and digital effects. I use Photoshop and other SW to layout my own pictures of the universe, creation, and astronomy altogether - FAV planet? - Saturn.
A good friend in California once told me that once we go upstairs and meet our Creator, that He is going to ask every one of us the same question, "Okay, show me your list of things you did on planet Earth." Hearing this, I told myself that nanosecond, "I want my bottom line to be big, a very long list of good things I did on Mother Earth - our temporary home."
I'm still working on that list.
Which brings me to the other side of earthly things, the other TM. But in total essence and comparatively speaking, it is the indispensable quality and the human nature of our beautiful tejano music that compels me/us to do more, but presently we're all living in a synchronized market driven/music driven modernistic society. Hang on to your hat.
Why not slow down at 110? Well, I am not that old yet, but I am a Sun City West Arizona senior - just turned 83. Yay.
Time ... is important to me, and I define it as one's lifetime; a person's period of greatest activity or engagement; one's experience during a specific period or a certain occasion; also, a moment in time or in the past.
Ultimately, I think, it is not what you get or even what you give. It is what you become.
A Side Point From TM:
From my understanding, from my own viewpoint and total music analysis, and not because I was a tejano musician either, but I truly believe that most tejano recording artists ... meaning all tejano music bands, groups, conjuntos - [new/established icons in their own right, past and present] ...
... do try very hard to give the tejano community, the audiences in their state, while playing on tours, while recordings/new releases ... they're doing their best to give you, [the tejano fan], the best they can ... but, they have slowed down a bit. Why?
Well, first, it takes money to record a new CD, add the studio hours, marketing expenses and overhead, money to pay all the musicians, money for roadies and logistics, etc.
Most of the time there are not enough club gigs, not enough local dances, not too many tours anymore, just Indian casinos and a few festivals in key states. Not enough revenue.
Furthermore, without any tejanos and tejanas involvement, without the support of tejano fans from all over the country, without any tejano music alliance and unity, without all of us helping each other for a new tejano music industry, without any social association and connectivity ... sadly, it will get worse. It will.
We need to escape the 'Golden Age-post hoc-1990s music-Selena years' [closure] ... and move on towards the future with new music and new tejano artists from Texas AND other states.
Realistically and absolutely nothing wrong in doing this for our new tejano music industry to succeed, to prosper, to initiate a new Onda - "La Nueva Onda" - and to reach new music heights tomorrow.
We should have done this years ago.
[By TM 04/2024]
TEJANOmike dot net is a site with a commonality line of music balance, Tejano awareness, and Tejano dialogue for y'all. Progress in the advocacy and infrastructure of our Tejano music industry you could say, is the heart and rhythm of my last site. Secondly, one important principle in all of this, i.e., the overall strategy of my site is, "To encourage young people and musicians to excel in the Tejano music arts and bring a much better perception of our Tejano music history."
Throughout my music years music has been right next to me, from Austin Texas to San Jose California, and on to Phoenix Arizona. I must admit all of this has been an exceptionally 'long music journey' since the good old days in Austin.
Finally, and when all is said and done, I am a Texas Libra and ... "I love beauty in all forms" ... I also love to see music illustrated in all kinds of art and in abstract pictures.
Though I am retired now, I still love to write, compose, and arrange original songs, plus do conjunto, group, and band music arrangements; over the years I have written a few Latins and country songs.
I look forward to a lot of good things in life - and in Tejano music because we must remember that each day ... "Brings in a new life chapter, it brings all of us another window of opportunity for us to face the world all over again. Luv it."
I thank you kindly for all your site visits and tejano music support. Welcome to ...
TEJANOmike dot net.
All the links on this music site are integrated and are a compilation of collected information for the process, perception, concept, reasoning, inconclusive narratives, and the power of comprehension - in order to improve our tejano music industry across the United States. Secondly, to represent TEJANOmike in totality and in an orderly method of ideas and presentations; both in life and in my music career. My own commentaries go further in depth and analysis, but not to the consensus of the majority.
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