[OSList] Fwd: #9 -- take your time -- 6/3/15

Thu Jun 4 05:47:20 PDT 2015

What a powerful message! How often we plan, we rehearse and we prepare
rather than just being in life and living life.
Thank you Skye!
On Jun 3, 2015 9:18 AM, "Skye Hirst via OSList" <
oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> This story and video by Paul Schaffer and Sammy Davis, Jr.  seems deeply
> related to the OPen Space practice of music, improvization, showing up with
> your talent/passion, "letting it happen"  within rhythm structures,  using
> all your experience and knowing the power of collaboration.  This video
> made me cry.  What a life,  what a gift, what a moment that happened only
> once just that way.
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> In today's *encore* excerpt -- from *We'll Be Here For the Rest of Our
> Lives: A Swingin' Show-biz Saga* by Paul Shaffer. For those who are
> already expert at their craft there are perils to rushing or
> over-rehearsing. Here Paul Shaffer frantically tries to reach Sammy Davis
> Jr. to select a song and schedule rehearsal before his appearance on the
> David Letterman show:
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> "Every time I called [Sammy Davis Jr. to try and select a song or discuss
> rehearsal] he was either working or sleeping. He never did return my calls.
> The morning of the show I was feeling some panic. Sammy was flying in, and
> we still didn't know what he wanted to sing. At 10 a.m., the floor manager
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>  " 'Once in My Life' will be fine, Paul' he said. 'Key of E going into F.'
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>  " 'Great!' I was relieved. I was also eager to work out an arrangement.
> ... We whipped up a chart, nursed it, rehearsed it, and put it on tape.
> That way when Sammy arrived, he could hear it. Then another backstage call.
> Sammy's plane had landed early, and he was on his way over. When I greeted
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> little taken aback. He looked extremely tired and frail. He walked with a
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>  " 'We have an arrangement, Sam. You can rehearse it with the band.'
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> " 'No need, baby. Gotta conserve my energy. I'm just gonna go to my room
> and shower.'
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> " 'I wanna make it easy for you. So I'll just play you a tape of the
> arrangement on the boom box. That way you'll hear what we've done and tell
> me if it's okay.'
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> " 'Man, I know the song.'
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> " 'I know, Sam,' I said, 'but what if you don't like the chart?'
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> " 'I'll like it, I'll like it.'
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> " 'But what if the key's not right?'
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> " 'Okay, if you insist.'
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> "I slipped the cassette in the boom box and hit 'play.' To my ears the
> chart sounded great. Sammy closed his eyes and, in Sammy style, nodded his
> head up and down to the groove. He smiled.
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> " 'It's swinging man,' he said 'but think of how much more fun we could
> have had if I hadn't heard this tape.'
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> "His words still resonate in my ears; the notion still haunts me. Sammy
> swung that night but as he was performing I couldn't help thinking that his
> carefree feeling about time -- as opposed to my lifelong notion of the
> pressure of the time -- was coming from a higher spiritual plane. As a
> musician, I've always thought I rushed. I still think I rush. The great
> players never rush. It reminds me of that moment when I watched Ray Charles
> turn to his guitarist, just as the young guy was about to solo, and say
> 'Take your time son. Take your time.' "
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