Music
ck’s
roads
Music
say making a hit record is like
capturing lightning in a bottle, and
in wine making I say creating that
perfect 100 rated vintage is like
capturing a bottle full of lightning.
“I am captivated by the art of the
winemaker and of viticulture itself. I’m
not into ‘vanity wines’ with photos of
recording stars, or old movie stars, or
the ‘in-crowd-trendy wine thing to
have’. I’m deep into the real thing, and
same with music making. When you
realize the ‘final blend’ of a Cabernet
can be from 60 different lots of grapes
all with differing characteristics, and
the winemaker must decide which
percentage of each of the 60 lots
gets blended in--then how long in
the barrel, and what kind of Oak,
American, French? And what kind of
toast to the oak...then they have to
imagine how this ‘living substance’ will
evolve and taste in 5, 10, 30, 50 years.
“That is magic. In music we create
the mix the final project and that
is ‘it’. It’s mind-blowing to me to
create something that would keep
changing, growing, evolving, picking
up different shades, layers of taste
on the palate.
“So to answer your question, if I
could ‘marry’ the concept of music,
changing, growing, and evolving as
a living substance, as wine does, that
would be the ultimate grafting of a
root-stock! Look out maybe this is
my next APP. But short of that...I
created, over five years, my life’s
greatest work: Napa Crossroads CD.”
When I listened to the album, I just
put it into the CD player and pressed
play. I didn’t want to look at which
artist was playing along with David
on each t &6