peter j stein: MY MUSIC CLIPS
I Wish That You Never Had Gone
This version of the song is what I originally intended, i.e., a quiet ballad related to a young boy's memories and longings from over 1/2 century ago. These vivid past emotional experiences, the feelings of which can be captured by musical expression, are eventually lost through aging and death. Despite one's wishes, there is the bitter truth that, along with ignorance, one must eventually let go of everything, and give oneself up to whatever one becomes, in the nameless cosmos. This song was performed using 2 acoustic classical guitar tracks, (acoustically mic'd with my steinstudio RODE NT 1-A), a guitar that I had hidden away, and just found in my basement, a 6 string nylon classical, that I bought in Brooklyn, about 40 years ago. The Story, itself, reflects an experience when I was 6 years old, when a pretty, young girl, a neighbor from 2 houses down, who had moved away, had returned to visit her Brooklyn home; we played tag together in a friend's driveway; she seemed to like me, and touched my hand lightly...and then she was gone, again.
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