The Website of Peter Link

“Ouch, my arm hurts” you might say. But you’d be wrong. It’s not your arm that hurts; it’s your brain. “Whoa, them’s fightin’ words. It’s my arm. I oughta know.” you retort. Sorry, wrong again. You’ve been duped – duped by a 5000 year-old misunderstanding of the origin and practice of pain.

It’s amazing the lies we’re taught and then live by for all our lives here on Planet Earth.

Today marks the launch of Watchfire Music’s commitment to its new video campaign. As mentioned in a previous post, “…we’re proud to announce, that WFM is going Video! We’ve always dreamed of being the place to be for Inspirational Videos on the web. We started it, but it got a bit postponed in the process. Now the dream comes true!”

This morning as I sit and drink my hot chocolate, I watch the sun come up pink on the buildings of a new day – and a city that never sleeps. What a time for Inspirational music! If the Missus weren’t still sleeping, I’d go into my studio, throw open the windows and crank up the volume.

Perhaps a song called Faith, perhaps Who Will Heal The World, perhaps Julia’s Upon The Mountain. I’d play my ‘hood, Hell’s Kitchen, awake and stand on my terrace overlooking Lower Manhattan, the Village, Wall Street and the Statue Of Liberty and holler, “Wake up, New York! We’re alive!

Next week, we’re proud to announce, that WFM is going Video! We’ve always dreamed of being the place to be for Inspirational Videos on the web. We started it, but it got a bit postponed in the process. Now the dream comes true!

It strikes me this morning that we live in a world beset by confusions of principle. As I mature (I prefer this term to “getting older”) I am more and more aware of evil’s influence in our world and the discord that it brings to our world. I live in an industry that has been dominated by greed for decades and has consequently failed. Inspirational music may be one shining light in the ashes of its decline, but sometimes I wonder how such a pure and noble idea such as music can be so riddled with chaos.

Summer’s end has arrived. Here comes Labor Day weekend and we all know what that means: Time to finish the vacations and get back to work, get back to school, get back to where you once belonged. Whether you’re 12, 24, 48 or 96, retired, fresh out of college, rich or poor or probably somewhere in between, into chemistry, widgets or inspirational music, it’s a good time to stop before you start and do your goals and motives.

Yesterday I had a blast. Inspirational music took on new meaning as I recorded virtuoso trumpeter, Barry Danielian, here in NYC at Link Recording Studios. I needed a 16 bar trumpet solo for the song, In That Great Gittin’ Up Mornin’ which is the climax song on my forthcoming CD, Goin’ Home – A Gospel Cantata – On Heaven and Beyond.