Lucky

Lucky me, I will be able to go to the Wahiawa Balloom Dance Club Ocktoberfest dance on Saturday. Since it is difficult to get night club action from town, perhaps I can make contact with Dot's In Wahiawa. I hear they are doing good and perhaps we could help and make them better yet. This is slow going and I accept.

"Happiness is a function of accepting what is."

Seeing more people dance the Reverse cross body lead in the West. If you have some nice Rumba music and you know your basic Mambo movements, try it, You can do the basic, go into American style cross body lead, then to the reverse cross body lead, then flesh it our with an under arm turn, hand to hand, spot turn and you are back to basic. Just a beautiful basic routine. I am getting convinced that the best American Rumba dancers are in the West. Yes, I know, many of them were taught by downtown teachers.

"Stranger In Paradise" by Tony Bennett

But then what do I know, I get very few items of interest from town. Many have their own Web Sites and they are getting thousands of hits per day. They cannot be bothered with a hinky dinky blog so we cannot blame them. We must keep beating the bushes and find the Two Centers that we need desperately to share the information with our fellow dancers and we will have Social Media at last.

Dance as if there is no one on this earth to see you,

Love as though you have never been hurt,

Sing as though no one out there can hear you,

Live as though everyone in heaven is watching.

Progressing

Live Music and the Dancing to go with it, is what I have suggested in this blog from the very beginning. However it is not doing too good because it is only me and SOS. We need the information contributors to share the Live Music scene with our fellow dancers. Then and only then can we say that this blog is Social Media.

"Dancers know that the things others hear about us, might be true = But

then again, they might be as fake as the person who told them that."

Then there is the Night Club scene and even though it is quite a separate information center it melds easily with our social-recreational dancing. And an added point is that Dancing Nights blog can include both Live and Recorded music. I just have to take them one by one and continually test to see if they are compatible. Many people on Oahu still consider Web sites as the max in Social Media and Blog sites as junk. We are all learning to identify the good qualities of each.

"Somewhere Over The Rainbow" by Bruddah Iz

All of our blogs should continue to try to help everyone that we can. However, they must know that the blogs are helping. If they do not know, then it stands to reason that there is nothing we can do for them. We will be too busy helping those we can help. Simple? And sooner or later we will get our first steady information contributor and everyone will see the difference.

"Fly Me To The Moon" by Jimmy Borges

Ragtime: Highly syncopated music developed by US Negros a decade after the Emancipation. They loved the Indian music and the Marches of the Day and combined both musical styles into their thing. It was soon followed by Jazz, Swing and the rest of the Rhythm and Blues.

Solid Blog

This blog is doing all right for the time it has been in existence. I stated from the very beginning that it would have the night club action on Oahu and perhaps the neighbor islands. And it has remained more or less in the same vein. However it is only me and my SOS keeping it going and that is not Social Media. I am walking again, with a walker, and I will be able to visit a few places in the near future. We still welcome any information contributors that are willing to share their dance information with their fellow dancers, just email it in.

"Most dancers know that others will only rain on our parade because

they are jealous of our sun and tired of their shade."

I have butterfingers and when I first go someplace I take my time and get one photo just to make sure the camera is working. Then I look for a couple people that know where to push the button to take a picture. Eight to 10 photos from each is good enough and I can make a collage of the six best in each. I also take some blank paper and pens to get a little information from anyone willing to say something to their fellow readers. I can round it out and make a nice blog out of it.

"Tiny Bubbles" by Don Ho

There may be some night clubs that would prefer to keep this more private and do it their way. We can certainly respect that and never bother them. But fortunately we are going to find many that are more than willing to share their night club dance items with the reading public. And we will have Social Media. So come on somebody - help us and your favorite club.

"In Social Dancing, we do not have to dance better than anyone else.

We just try to dance better than ourselves."

Down

Down but not out, -- yet.
It is quite apparent that most of the live music in downtown Honolulu is pretty well covered with web sites. And most think they get millions of hits per day. However the fact remains that they do not know simply because they do not have counters. Very basic on the Mainland for not only themselves but also as information for the readers of the Web or Blog sites. Granted, counters are far from perfect but you can sure get an idea in comparison with others.

"There will be times when they will break us down, but grab a seat and watch us pick up the pieces, rebuild and come back stronger than ever."

So now that I am beginning to walk again (with a walker) I plan on going to see the Live Music in the West and many do not have Web or Blog sites. And when I get the information to share with our fellow dancers, watch the hits go up through the ceiling. The main thing will be to get someone's individual opinion to share, and there are plenty out there. You figure, this is not gossip.

"Sobre Las Olas" por Juventino Rosas.

And our biggest audience of readers will be just ordinary dancers none of these big stars being featured in other social media. It has been mentioned often that we have, small, medium and large, always three categories in everything. We have the Bronze, Silver and Gold. Good enough. Most of out readers will be in the Bronze and Silver. Any others up higher will have their own agendas. No hu hu.

'So let our enemies say what they will, for our sins are many, and

perhaps because of their back biting and slander, our sins wlll

be lightened and instead fall upon their shoulders." 

Slowing Down

This blog on Live Music is still showing flickers of life. Quite a few already know what should be included in a Live Music blog only they don't know what they themselves could do. For a blog in Social Media to do good it must get pertinent dance information from readers willing to share with their fellow dancers. We do not have that.

 “You can have everything in life that you want if you will just

help enough other people to get what they want.”

Comments at the end of each blog are ready and willing to accept your comments. That is the easiest communication to the reader/dancers. Next is emailing, whatever you wish to share with your fellow dancers you can email it to me. This includes photos and I will post everything to the blog of your choice.  And the "Oldies But Goodies" are still very much in favor of everyone.

"I've Got You Under My Skin" by Jimmy Borges

Next, since the downtown Live Music seems to be well taken care of, we can most help the new ones in the outskirts, the Waianae Coast and the North Shore. They do not have much Public Relations but many are beginning to know that blogging can be a big help. Kapolei is being held back by the Present Rail Party. It's the bread, Fred. The good thing is that we are all getting to know that Blogging is Social Media.

"To be the greatest dancer on earth is for OP (other people.)

Social Dancers have a much different agenda." 

The Oldies

Slowly in the last few years, the "oldies but goodies" have been emerging. They have always been there but it has been live bands that have led the way. The "oldies" have been mainly Swing and Foxtrot. Fortunately along the way, many people had been willing to include more oldies. Mainly the music in the sixties in the new dance clubs in Hawaii and the introduction of the Latin dances, the Rumba and the Cha Cha Cha, predominantly. These oldies are solid in our kind of dancing.

"Attitudes are often much more important than intelligence."

 

It is all unfolding very nicely. For the old time Social Dancer the music has been primary and the dance has followed naturally. The Universal dancer wants to find a method of enjoying the music, so the music is first, then you apply the proper movement to feel the best of the music. Steps and figures are danced to the rhythm and for the beginner will have no relation to the harmony or the lyrics. That is social dancing.

"Imagine" by John Lennon

This is far different than Exhibition or Competition dancers. They are in a different realm. If they wish to call it dancing we should not complain, much of it is beautiful, but it is not something you want to see everyday on the ordinary dance floor. That is a different kuleana and they know it. Teachers? We have the best in the world right here on Oahu.

"A lot of problems in our dance world would disappear if we

talked to each other instead of about each other."

Dead Music?

On this blog "Live Music" appears to be close to death, so far. There is plenty of live music out there and dance news in five hundred other avenues of advertising on Oahu. We agree that they should do as they please, it is their time and money.  But many do not know the wonders of Social Media. It may not be advertising but it is communicating to our fellow dancers. Patience the dancers will eventually know.

 "If nobody is perfect, perhaps we are perfect for we are nobodies.

And many of us are willing to go that extra mile for the club

but the rest of the group will pull us back."

For sure, it is coming out that we have two different types of fans of Live Music - the Listeners and the Dancers. Both agree on one thing, the existence of the "oldies but goodies." There are a million records produced every day throughout the world and most do not even get near to be an oldie but goodie. It is a personal matter and yours will probably not be the same as mine. No hu hu, the top ones are close enough that when we hear and dance them we get just about the same feeling of satisfaction.

"Stranger In Paradise" by Tony Bennett

Then we can get some news in here from the Information Contributors to share with our reader/dancers. A few photos and we got a blog - Social Media.  The entire enchilada of music and dance on the Island of Oahu is evolving into a better environment where we can communicate with each other and respect each other's preferences.

"Dancers can all move their bodies to a beat but not everyone

can become one with music all the time and stir their

emotions  and shift their energy with the dance."