To move, with little help, a lifetime of possessions, some 350 mile's is, according to some, no small feet. Big Feet was the title of Leroy Vinegar's first, and with big feet return's his second unique Bass album's in the 1950, while he recorded in NYC with Andre Previn, and the unnamed third of the Les McCan and Eddie Harris Trio. He would make his forth move to LA, where he crated the Peter Gun theme song, played at every high school football game across America. He was a studio musician in LA before he made his final move to Portland, where he and I became best friends. Such a giant, inventing the "walking bass" jazz technique and appearing on over 830 albums and CD's. He stood 6'6" with size 14 feet. Playing with him with both of his final two band's was one of my most cherished life experience's, and I name drop all the time from this feat. Mostly I do this to mark my territory with newly met musician's to let them know the level of my flute playing, and this help's me align with the right sort of player's.
The word "play" has multiple origins, including Old English and Middle Dutch:
Noun
The word "play" as a noun comes from the Old English word plega. The earliest known use of the word "play" as a noun is from before 1150.
Verb
The word "play" as a verb comes from the Old English word plegian, which is related to the Middle Dutch word pleien. The Middle Dutch word pleien means "to leap for joy" or "to rejoice". In the later Middle Ages (around the 14th century), English adopted the word pleien as "pleg(i)an", which means "to exercise" or "to frolic".
However, when you are "played" by someone, you don't typically leap for joy. They might but this is an antithetical meaning of the word. Other extention's include seeing a play (happy or tragic), playing the horses or slot's, Adult's at work and play, and the life of the infant, where living makes them leap for joy.
Comedic tragedy and comedic drama are dance's that often occur on stage, but you never got to a theater to see comedy as a "play", you go to standup or comedy houses, and what you see, might make you joyful, even leaping for joy, but you never go to a comedy play. and in the immortal word's of Maude, "the stars in the heaven's are my audience, and the world is my stage". So, scene 1, act 3, I begin my life, playing, and playing out, in Brooking's Oregon. You are all welcome, soon, to come out in my new sandbox. Namaste and Blessing's to all.
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