#daniel higgs

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Twig Harper & Daniel Higgs - Number Two

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Lungfish - “Feral Hymns”

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Higgs flash done by Vinny Morris

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"Like the whole shaped-note thing, trying to make sense of that. I mean they don’t care of anyone’s hearing it or understands it.

I think that’s what you’re trying to understand, you’re trying to understand what you’re doing as you’re doing it.  If you get beyond that, you know, you have no foundation.  You know, when we play the music, we’re trying to understand they music we’re playing.  And often the only time we approach understanding the music that we’re playing is when we’re playing it. As soon as we stop playing it, we left our understanding in the song, which is now decaying into infinitesimally small sound waves, you know, and it’s gone.  And if we still want to understand, we have to play the music again, because the understanding, if it occurs, in any slight degree, will most certainly occur while we’re playing the music we’re trying to understand.  We can talk about it, and it’s fun to talk about, but we don’t go anywhere when we talk about it.

Would you say playing the music then is a spiritual pursuit?

I think that I do, but I’ll say that I think that’s all everybody’s doing, in anything they do.  In anything they do. And I mean anything.  I don’t even want to cite any examples. And now, what they may be doing may be off-base, you know, it might be brutal, it might be wrong, but it’s a spiritual pursuit.  Their world as they’re perceiving it has led them to live in such a way.  And the way such a person chooses to live reveals about the person what they feel their place is in the scheme of things. You know, every time. With the human species. I won’t go beyond the human species."

Daniel Higgs, 1999 Lungfish interview from disaster amnesiac blog

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Little guy from Dan Higgs Doomsday Bonnet i tattooed yesterday.

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Painting by Daniel Higgs

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Making progress on this Dan Higgs flash series that I will paint