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(Message started by: Peppermint on Nov 16th, 2003, 12:41pm)

Title: Hey you Musical Clusterheads......
Post by Peppermint on Nov 16th, 2003, 12:41pm
I know there are a lot of you out there for which music is an integral part of of your life.  I've seen a number of posts relating to that in some way.  

How does it tie in with your clusters?  Or does it?  

This is a story I'm working on so I'd like you to respond by email if you have a reply, and I'll give you more details, etc., when I hear back from you.  Or if that won't work for ya, if you'd like to participate but want to know more in advance, please post here and say yes, and I will send you an email.  

I reeeeallly would appreciate your responses, and you WILL get to read them... but ...

If you post it here, then it ain't news.  ;;D

Waiting with fingers at the ready,
Peppermint   [smiley=curtain.gif]

Modified:  You don't have to play an insrument for music to be significant in this way...  just something to think about...

Title: Re: Hey you Musical Clusterheads......
Post by brain_cramps on Nov 16th, 2003, 4:28pm
I know we have a few musical clusterheads out there.  There's um....   whats-his-name,     and errrr....  the other guy,     and DEFINITELY NOT ME!!! ::)

not really tone_deaf but too lazy to learn an instrument,
grant                       8)

Title: Re: Hey you Musical Clusterheads......
Post by cootie on Nov 16th, 2003, 4:37pm
In a manly voice (Brad)....um....yeah OK ! Pam that's speakin fer Brad

Title: Re: Hey you Musical Clusterheads......
Post by Unsolved on Nov 16th, 2003, 5:09pm
uuuhh, yea. Not sure what you're asking for.
I've played the guitar for almost as long as I've had clusters. (about 14 years)


Unsolved (http://cluster.home.insightbb.com)

Title: Re: Hey you Musical Clusterheads......
Post by BarbaraD on Nov 16th, 2003, 5:43pm
Well get her an e-mail and see if she wants to INTERVIEW you.... what's ya waitin' for?

Carl D where the heck are you. Get an e-mail to this reporter... (or I'll start telling tales on you! :-*)

Who else out there plays something or sings or does something?

Heck I can't even play the radio well, but I'm LOUD!!!

Hugs BD

Title: Re: Hey you Musical Clusterheads......
Post by Svenn on Nov 16th, 2003, 6:17pm
Hi there Pep

1,  Cant live without the music

2, My "brainwasher"gave me this idea to try under an attack:Try put on your favouriteCD on LOW volume and try focus on lissen to the music during battle with the beast just to try take the focus away from the pain.

That advice have help me more then one time for sure

We has to do whatever it takes to take the focus away


Svenn

Title: Re: Hey you Musical Clusterheads......
Post by eyes_afire on Nov 16th, 2003, 6:20pm
Pepp, check your email.  I'm in.  Here's where people can HELP and PITCH IN.  It's good to see things moving on the newsletter.

--- Steve

Title: Re: Hey you Musical Clusterheads......
Post by pubgirl on Nov 16th, 2003, 7:39pm
Peppermint

My memory often fails me these days but didn't Riccardo make a Cluster CD?

Wendy

Title: Re: Hey you Musical Clusterheads......
Post by Mastifflvr28 on Nov 16th, 2003, 8:05pm
You are right Wendy,
I have Riccardo's cd right in front of me...as well as the words :)
Mast

Title: Re: Hey you Musical Clusterheads......
Post by pubgirl on Nov 16th, 2003, 8:08pm
Mast

Now there's an idea for Christmas presents!

Title: Re: Hey you Musical Clusterheads......
Post by Peppermint on Nov 17th, 2003, 12:03pm
thanks people... keep 'em coming...  [smiley=thumb.gif]

Title: Re: Hey you Musical Clusterheads......
Post by thomas on Nov 17th, 2003, 12:06pm
Yes, I love music. ;)

Title: Re: Hey you Musical Clusterheads......
Post by Paigelle on Nov 17th, 2003, 4:51pm
I listen to music constantly.  I always put a CD on that I love when I am in pain.  Something about that helps to drown out other things.  Use to always date guitar players also, but that is another story.

Title: Re: Hey you Musical Clusterheads............
Post by Peppermint on Nov 17th, 2003, 11:26pm
[smiley=snore.gif]
*cough*huh*[smiley=wtf.gif]


oh yeah...........
                                           *BUMP*http://deephousepage.com/smilies/angelharp.gif

Title: Re: Hey you Musical Clusterheads......
Post by phishphan on Nov 18th, 2003, 10:28am
I love music..
Currenly play guitar in a jamband...
One thing that gets me and confuses doctors is,,,,My cluster is severly bad after I play guitar...Dont know why...Thinking maybe cause it raises my blood pressure???

Title: Re: Hey you Musical Clusterheads......
Post by Jewel on Nov 18th, 2003, 10:56am
It doesn't tie into my clusters.  Just a passion.   :)

Title: Re: Hey you Musical Clusterheads......
Post by Paigelle on Nov 18th, 2003, 11:15am
I think it is the noise factor when playing the guitar.  Of course a guitar player I dated gave me headaches.   [smiley=laugh.gif]

Title: Re: Hey you Musical Clusterheads......
Post by Jimi on Nov 18th, 2003, 11:24am
[smiley=nopity.gif]  I'm with Jewell, Pep. Years and years ago when I was having them and didn't know what they were and was taking nothing for them. I used to put on an album when I was home and felt one coming on. It was the Door's Greatest Hits. By the time the front side was finished, it was usually gone. No clue why I chose that one. I love music, like to sing etc but cannot find any correlation betwixt the two now. Sorry Babe! [smiley=nono.gif]

Title: Re: Hey you Musical Clusterheads......
Post by suzy617 on Nov 18th, 2003, 11:24am
Cant take music of any kind when getting hit but just wanted to say hi to ya Pepsi Cola.   ;;D

Suzy

Title: Re: Hey you Musical Clusterheads......
Post by Peppermint on Nov 18th, 2003, 11:36am

on 11/18/03 at 11:24:48, suzy617 wrote:
Cant take music of any kind when getting hit but just wanted to say hi to ya Pepsi Cola.   ;;D

Suzy


Hey Runaround - when are we gonna hang next and get in summore trouble huh? LOL.. that's it I'm callin Herman. [smiley=biggrin.gif]

hm. Jimi, I understand what you're saying, though maybe I worded this wrong here.  Did you get my email?  You actually answered my question anyway, not everyone feels the same.  Thanks Ossifer...  [smiley=cowboy.gif]...."I, I, am a man of Constant Sorrow-Ooh.."

Title: Re: Hey you Musical Clusterheads......
Post by suzy617 on Nov 18th, 2003, 11:55am

on 11/18/03 at 11:36:53, Peppermint wrote:
.. that's it I'm callin Herman. [smiley=biggrin.gif]



[smiley=crackup.gif]

Title: Re: Hey you Musical Clusterheads......
Post by Paigelle on Nov 18th, 2003, 12:11pm
Strange, I usually put on The Doors now when I am hit.  Something very soothing in the music.

Title: Re: Hey you Musical Clusterheads......
Post by ClusterChuck on Nov 18th, 2003, 2:02pm
Music is a MUST when I am getting hit.  Although, I tend to listen to music SLIGHTLY different from what others have mentioned.  Verdi's Requiem, especially Requiem, and Liber scriptus.  My other BEAST special is Mozart's Don Giovanni, especially Madamina, il catalogo e questo.

These are the music passions that I turn to, to fight the beast.

Chuck

Title: Re: Hey you Musical Clusterheads......
Post by Peppermint on Nov 18th, 2003, 2:21pm
So OKAY... THANK YOU for your candid responses, I really love that you have some thoughts on this...

but PLEASE email me LOL... if its here... then ... it won't make for fresh NEWS/Stories.......

...........pleeeeady, pleeeeeasee??  [smiley=lick.gif]

Thank ya. ;;D

send responses to : peppermint2867@yahoo.com

Title: Re: Hey you Musical Clusterheads......
Post by simplevox on Nov 18th, 2003, 6:36pm
I sing in a band, but usually have to take a break from it when I am "in season".  I absolutely love to perform, but the older I get, and the more CHs I get, the more that part of my life seems to get put on the back burner. Score one for the beast!  :'(

you can listen to my band's music at: www.simpleband.com

Title: Re: Hey you Musical Clusterheads......
Post by Carl_D on Nov 18th, 2003, 6:51pm
Anyone who knows me will tell you, I am a music freak! I eat, sleep, talk, listen, breath, feel music 24/7.
I love all kinds of music, even some classical, new age, jazz/fusion, and classic rock, but it seems that once I started getting CH, my own music began to get very dark.
I have written things many will never see. I take all of my anger, rage, violence, and destruction not on people, not on the establishment. I take it out with a pen and paper. I take it out on my screams. I take it out in my music and performance. Many are shocked when they hear the mellower stuff I have done at the contrast.

Now I scream in my bands song "Arrival" to the cluster demons...
"...For all the years you held me back - fuck you all - I HAVE ARRIVED!"

Can anyone relate?

God bless Randy Rhoads and Jeff Buckley - two artists way beyond thier time that left way too soon!

Now, if anyone dare DOWNLOAD MUSIC ILLEGALLY - WELL as a musician I have to say this : SHAME ON YOU! Bad cop, no donut. God forbid someone actually download a song or more from you, get in to it so much that they have to buy that CD, that DVD - the fricken $90.00 concert Jersey!
Gimme a fricken break! If filesharing should be banned, then so should sacrotized media. I would be honored if somebody downloaded my stuff, and was when I got some response from my own music being downloaded on MP3.com/former. Free the music.

Now, if you dare, download the song "Hallelujah" from Jeff Buckley. I almost have to hide away from others when I hear it because it is one song that can bring me to tears. If anyone agrees, let me know.

I listen to it all, but onstage in a rage - I am a headbanger!

[smiley=headbanger.gif]
Carl D

Title: Re: Hey you Musical Clusterheads......
Post by Paigelle on Nov 18th, 2003, 7:00pm
I do miss Randy Rhoads!

Title: Re: Hey you Musical Clusterheads......
Post by 5-string on Nov 18th, 2003, 7:32pm
I am a profesional musician. Like Carl D. I eat,breathe,sleep music.
I have since the age of 4. Music is my religion. It has saved my life(and I mean that literally) several times. It keeps me at peace with myself and the world. I've toured and recorded and,yes, have had full-on attacks while doing so. But the music reminds me that life is a good thing everyday.
When I'm feeling a strong shadow I can leave the pain/discomfort through playing. Full on attack, forget it but music can take me to a place that nothing else can. I don't know why or how exactly but that's just the way it's always been for me. And I am thankful for that gift.
Other than that I'm pretty much a spiritual moron. ;)
...Mark..

Title: Re: Hey you Musical Clusterheads......
Post by Paigelle on Nov 18th, 2003, 7:38pm
This may be a shot in the dark, but it seems most of us are pretty creative.  I was a art major and love music.  You are so right, it can take you away from pain of any kind.  It has gotten me through breakups, deaths, and all sorts of stuff.  I sometimes draw when I am hit.  It helps to release the anger that comes with the pain.

Title: Re: Hey you Musical Clusterheads......
Post by Paigelle on Nov 18th, 2003, 7:39pm
5-string, did you ever play Hammerjacks?

Title: Re: Hey you Musical Clusterheads......
Post by violet on Nov 18th, 2003, 7:48pm
I am a professional musician and a music teacher.   Music is a part of my physical chemistry.  My ears are my most important sensory organ.  Sometimes during a cluster, I hear the same song over and over again in my head.  Could have been any song that was floating around in my subconcious.  It keeps repeating, and I can't stop it.  Kind of wierd, and my Neuro says it's from the lack of oxygen in my brain.  Kind of  a pleasant hallucination.  It would be neat, if it weren't for the pain.
Vi

Title: Re: Hey you Musical Clusterheads......
Post by jonny on Nov 18th, 2003, 7:52pm

on 11/18/03 at 19:32:30, 5-string wrote:
 Other than that I'm pretty much a spiritual moron. ;)


You are my leader Mark.......LOL ;;D

......................................jonny

Title: Re: Hey you Musical Clusterheads......
Post by Peppermint on Nov 19th, 2003, 9:05am
rollin, rollin, rollin....

http://deephousepage.com/smilies/music271.gif
Wake up, wake up...........http://deephousepage.com/smilies/cheering.gif   time for some coffee...MMM.. :)

Title: Re: Hey you Musical Clusterheads......
Post by Mac on Nov 19th, 2003, 12:43pm
When I was first diagnosed by my specialist he had asked me several "personality " questions. When he found out that I was a professional musician and artist he nodded his head knowingly and classified me as an "A" personality although I have always considered myself a "B".That has really got me wondering. Since I started coming to this site I have noticed a lot of music and art threads.Could this be a clue into the cause/effect of these damn headaches?It would be interesting to do a survey of the members to see if there is a higher preponderance of "artistes" in the exploding eye club. As far as using art to help me get through a shadow or attack, if jamming a pencil in my eye or banging my head repeatedly on my amp qualify then yes I do use my art ;)


http://www.artwanted.com/images/large/3248_6169.jpg

Title: Re: Hey you Musical Clusterheads......
Post by Peppermint on Nov 22nd, 2003, 3:18pm
Hey everybody,

Thanks for all your responses and emails... I will let you know shortly via email of any follow-ups.  I just want to let you know that I am working on this and I did not forget about you.  

Mint 8)

Title: Re: Hey you Musical Clusterheads......
Post by cootie on Nov 22nd, 2003, 3:47pm
Pepp....I still gotta talk to Brad about it.......he's been busy at work and in the garage.......so hopein ta get to ask him abut this here soon tay ??? Sorry....hope yer doin good !!! Love, Pam that is better late then never ever

Title: Re: Hey you Musical Clusterheads......
Post by BlueMeanie on Nov 22nd, 2003, 5:01pm
Music keeps me occupied during a cluster. My wife goes nuts thinking I should turn it off. I try to tell her sound doesn't bother a CH. Only light. I went to a Moody Blues concert and sure enough, as soon as the 2nd song started, a CH started. Had to keep my eyes closed the whole time, but the sound sure was great !!   :)

Title: Re: Hey you Musical Clusterheads......
Post by BlueMeanie on Nov 22nd, 2003, 5:15pm
ps. played trumpet for 8 years if that counts.

Title: Re: Hey you Musical Clusterheads......
Post by Peppermint on Nov 28th, 2003, 11:55pm
Damn I really hate to bump this thread at this time when there are much more important ones, but ANyONE that has replied to me and owes me a couple things I requested such as real name, and photo (except for those who already declined by saying so)  PLEEASE send them to me.  

I am wrapping this up and my BOSS is tapping her foot (well, she's sick in bed so the guilt is double [smiley=worried.gif] - it would be really nice to give her the full package) .  

Thanks to all who have participated!!

PFDAN's around the world,
Peppermint

Title: Re: Hey you Musical Clusterheads......
Post by cootie on Nov 29th, 2003, 12:50am
Pepp.....I emailed ya......Brad has been sick with the cold flu crap stuff.......I think he got it fer his birthday ! Pam the musical emailer



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