One Hour Away From the Real

Last night I stayed up far beyond my normal operational hours in order to absorb a wonderful treasure shared by one of the Wall-nuts on our bustling facebook page. It was a short but utterly transfixing live set done in July of 2007, as the waves began to crest from the release of Like Drawing Blood. What I watched was the humble yet beautifully constructed emergence of the artist who has now staked claim on a sizeable piece of my heart. Words fail me, in many ways, in attempting to explain the experience of subsuming myself into this hour-long experience. Camera angles swept across the stage, peeking through the transparent drum set where Wally sat and pummeled out his melodic perfection. I was especially captured by the candid and intimate moments where the focus placed onto Wally's face, and his eyes closed and mouth curled and he sang with presence and passion that I've rarely witnessed in any context. I found myself with knitted brow and eyes welling when he sang songs of sadness and introspection. I found myself grinning wide and buzzing with joy when he sang jubilant or humorous things. I found myself.....I found a part of myself while watching this. The part that connects from heart string to heart string, in the most remote yet salient way, to the man who makes the music that speaks to me. I hope you have the chance to sit with this as well, perhaps you will be transformed, as i was.

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