Music is as much about form as self expression
I cannot play the guitar and have always been in awe of anyone who can; from an outsider’s perspective the shape the musician’s fingers form as he makes each chord just looks painful. Perhaps that’s why there’s so much miserable music amongst budding singer-songwriters. However, despite an abundance of angst-ridden music strummed out and accompanied by the drone of a similarly angst-ridden teen with long hair over his eyes and a cigarette behind his ear, there is plenty of cheerful and uplifting music to keep us happy as we welcome in the spring. Last night my friends and I headed to the pub to watch a couple of other friends perform at a small gig; the first (a singer for hire more used to being surrounded by wedding favours than beer pumps) did a brilliant cover of King of the Swingers from the Jungle Book – not usually the choice of the man-and-his-guitar – and the second had written a song which had everyone in the pub on their feet. The range of emotion that can be evoked by a wooden box, six strings and occasionally a voice is incredible; we all have songs on our mp3s which can leave us beaming with happiness, verging on depression or dancing like idiots (when no one’s looking). If music, like any other form of art, is an expression of emotion or thought, what is it about the guitar that makes it such a popular form of expression, particularly among young people? It seems to be the sociable aspect of it; some of my fondest memories have been sitting with a group of friends – wherever that may be – and someone has got out their guitar. It’s a corny cliché, but it is true.
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