We were talking over in the "cocaine" thread (yes, it was about music, not a drug link) and Ricardo said "no good songs are written before 2100 hours" (9 p.m. for the Greenwich challenged) -- and it started me thinking about how the really good music doesn't generally start cranking until late in the evening, or really early in the a.m.

And also about one of the hallmarks of musicians, which I've observed over years of singing and hanging around, which is that they're all a bunch of night owls. And thinking about my two kids, one of whom was BORN a night owl and could always outlast me in the staying-up sweepstakes and coincidentally (or not?) became the musician of the two.

Is this a chicken/egg conversation? I mean, have musicians become night owls becauase gigs happen at night and they are still energized after work? Or is there some difference in the physical makeup of the brain such that the part that creates music also has a different circadian rhythm as well?

Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

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