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    My Kung Fu Music 2: A Memoir of Sorts
    My Kung Fu Music 2: A Memoir of Sorts
    My Kung Fu Music 2: A Memoir of Sorts
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    My Kung Fu Music 2: A Memoir of Sorts

    By Guy Le Claire

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    In a world that is so f*cked up, it's easy to get on the negative. It was totes f*cked for musicians! Especially during Cov*id. It is also difficult to decipher where music, artists & the business is heading. Creativity, expression & pathways appear to be stifled. However, I continue with this work in the HOPE of creating some good, posi

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGuy Le Claire
    Release dateOct 25, 2023
    ISBN9780645433630
    My Kung Fu Music 2: A Memoir of Sorts

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      My Kung Fu Music 2 - Guy Le Claire

      MY

      KUNG FU

      MUSIC 2: A MEMOIR OF SORTS

      BY THE AUTHOR OF

      MY KUNG FU STROKE

      GUY LE CLAIRE

      Copyright © 2023 GUY LE CLAIRE

      GUY LE CLAIRE

      Second Edition 2023 ISBN: 978-0-6454336-8-5

      Cover Artwork: Guy Le Claire

      Copyright © 2023 Guy Le Claire – [email protected]

      All Rights Reserved.

      My House mate -Leigh Johnston (co - founder of Rose Tattoo), is urging me to call this book ‘are we there yet’, are we there yet. Are We There Yet - Jenny says NO and I don’t.

      are you there yet.

      MY

      KUNG FU

      MUSIC 2

      BY THE AUTHOR OF

      MY KUNG FU STROKE

      A MEMOIR OF SORTS

      2nd Edition

      GUY LE CLAIRE

      FOREWORD

      In a world that is so fucked up, it’s easy to get on the negative. It was totes fucked for musicians! Especially during Covid. It is also difficult to decipher where music, artists & the business is heading. Creativity, expression & pathways appear to be stifled. However, I continue with this work in the HOPE of creating some good, positive vibes.

      My physical Kung Fu ( Tai Chi Qi Gong) practice continues daily, with morning work-outs in nature and occasional classes given to the community.

      Having lived away from Australia for over 20 years (1976 to 1981 and then from 1996 to 2015), returning to my homeland permanently as a disabled person in 2015. Still armed with a mindset of pre-existing Aussie culture from the 1970’s. I was a fossil, culturally fossilised, I am fossilised like a sort of dinosaur, I wasn't aware of the new protocols that had emerged over the past decades in Australia, I will say my first book was an enlightening experience.

      With it unknowingly, I was going to express myself as a stroke survivor, hoping to share my recovery and optimism of following Chinese kung fu skill to my readers. Nevertheless I realise now I may have blind-sided some readers with my strong Aussie-ness of past times, in the 1st edition, it is what it is. My Kung Fu Stroke 2nd edition is now available all ‘woken’. Here I will try my best to avoid my personal, romantic and private life with assumptions, and my family (who are innocent of all my endeavours).

      This book is a replica of a time in music and professional music experience by an Aussie /Hong Konger from 1970 to 2023.

      BIRTH:

      Born 1960 in Sydney to actor parents. I am like an actor in a play, or a bigwig boxer going into battle, I used my acting and music skills to appropriate my employment. Along with reasonably good looks, I had developed a high level of guitar playing in my youth and I could see that by emulating certain idioms/genres and scenes in music (what I call stage roles) I would get busy re-employment. Chasing the dollar, I sold my soul somewhat… but who was GleC? (glec= guy le claire) a shallow or weak character from Crossroads? (the blues musician who sold his soul to the devil down at the Crossroads) No!

      A talented musician and seeking dedicated guitarist who practised 12 hours a day, studied, took lessons, a burgeoning Master. Guy had been induced into the world of acting /drama by his two actor parents at birth and cunningly he could use their skill to be accepted into most situations/roles of Music. By playing roles.

      In the beginning I didn't know, however if you wanted…

      1. ROCK - I could Rock with me Cock!

      2. Pop /funk - dance my little groove moves in tites and hairdos, no problem!

      3. Jazz out- put on Salvoz jackets with a beret, grow a goatee Sving.

      This last one (the jazz) would baffle me as I couldn’t rip through changes. Standard songs. diu!

      Australia, due to its English heritage & language capabilities, has since the World Wars been well connected to the United Kingdom and the United States of America, as it continues to do so. Aukus. These two super- powers influenced our culture and technology deeply. So it is a no brainer, that the germs of our music and art came from these two northern hemisphere places. Blues, Jazz, Rock, Country to Rap are now a part of Australian daily life.

      ‘Music Oh Music, what have you done to me

      i can’t lose you or take you with me

      o Music o Music

      the Music to our ears’

      Notes on book 1:The yellow stroke book;

      My hope and aim was to instill some positivity and directives, with this book I like to think of it as a musicians handbook.. Kung Fu is a skill, developed over time. Most people have it and are Masters (potentially without knowing) - Musicians, Doctors, Health Professionals, Tech experts, Artists, Sportsmen and Women, Hospitality, Co-ordinators, Transportation workers, Police.

      In other words all people working or dedicated to a passion!

      You may not realise that within you is a Kung Fu….You Master (Sifu)! You need to work at it, not be hesitant/lazy!

      I Kung Fu Master! :) when I studied Dick Russo’s Jazz book he emphasised the importance of exercise, playing an athletic hobby, to get off music for a while. I agree.

      GETTING STARTED: 1969

      Air guitar on a tennis racket was my first foray into guitar.

      Before my voice broke and measles, I sung well, I was singing all the time (but I couldn’t understand the words sung by others after measles medication rendered me with a serious hearing defect) so at age 11, I began making up my own words singing over the top of Beatle songs. My favourite band! The influence and joy of the Beatles cannot be praised enough. The Fab 4 created such energy and excitement. Two guys on guitar strumming away, sensible economical bass work, propelled by the beat of the drums! and they could sing. I was hooked!

      Each of the Fab4 were adored.

      the BEETS were formed with best friends Marky Carr and Rolf Knudsen, we put on special shows for our parents and friends in living rooms playing our rackets and singing over the top of the record player playing the Beatles. Marky studied classical guitar in Vaucluse, Rolf was learning plectrum guitar in Mosman, both began sharing with me what they were learning, finally at age 12 Mum gave me a Kapok nylon acoustic to play on. Simon & Garfunkel plus flamenco records got played repeatedly as I tried to get it together on my guitar. While at Mona Vale primary age 9, a music day was scheduled with Alex Hood, he played guitar,

      banjo and mandolin, sung and told Aussie folk stories, I was hooked by this journeyman’s vibe and wanted to be like him. After the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix became my next huge influence. Jimi’s oneness with the guitar, the sounds he coerced and his physicality, blew my little brain. Clearly there was a strong improvisatory element in Jimi’s music, I was attracted to the self expressive creative potential of this, and you could say I have spent my whole life in an improvisation mode.

      In addition to Jimi Hendrix.

      Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton vied for top position. I was infatuated with the guitar, related to it big time. Psychologically speaking I don’t know why but I loved it.

      Later Santana exposed me to new notes within the pentatonic scale and rhythms, which I adored. Also my Chinese step-father Eddy adored Manitas De Plata (Spain), and flamenco entered my soul- I always felt like Flamenco was an emotional folk music like American Blues- I felt a correlation between the 2 and they featured guitar! (once down in Texas age 16 an African American homeless guy with a guitar, who looked like BB King began singing the blues to me on the street like a private show - I was mesmerised/hooked).

      ‘Visions of the Emerald Beyond’ by Mahavishnu Orchestra was played loud to me one arvo(1977) by my Mosman neighbours through their awesome sound system and it totally blew my brain. Here were two guys ‘Devadip’ Carlos Santana and ‘Mahavishnu’ John McLaughlin followers of

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