(This letter originally posted to the unofficial Steve Vai mailing list)
I want to comment from my personal experience regarding “exposure”… I am a nurse… my man is a professional musician… I had always lived in the music… I gave a myriad of exposure of all music to my children… as my parents had given to me…
…last week I was driving Frank’s car, taking my 84 year old patient to an appointment… we had to pull over to the side of the road to wait out a torrential rain… Lenore says “why don’t you play your music for me while we wait?”…ummmm… she had sat on P&W tape… well… i think… grinning… what the hell… so I did put it in… and Lenore was stuck down… (my wording)… she was transfixed… no kidding… I played “For the Love of God”… she listened… she did not simply indulge me… she was into it… she said…”this is so abstract…so beautiful, Jane. Where does his music come from? I can hear classical influences… he layers his emotions with how many instruments?”… tears brimming my eyes even now in recollection…
…nothing happens randomly in my crazy littleworld… and this was another “miraculous event”…
I hope that Rich will tell Steve about his music touching an elderly woman… and that all of you will share your world with others… please take that risk…