Wednesday, December 4, 2013

The Guitar Vibe is Getting Much Stronger

The Galaxy Guitar will get out of the Guitar Hospital pretty soon and there are two Guitar Angels who are flying overhead, singing "Don't worry, we can save it."

There's no way of making a call for a gig on Thursday night.  I'm dying to play for Cat and it would be pretty swell if you all came too but, for this Thursday, I can't say any more than I hope so.

Having her around will be outstandingly cool because a keyboard isn't that hot to play.  I love the sounds a synthesizer can make but all you ever do in playing one is wiggle your fingers.  You can get all dramatic and pound on the keys but probably that will just break something.  Usually you just wiggle.

The bass is sort of cool to play as you can be the Big Balls Terminator Robot because, man, you and the Drum God have got the beat and you're shaking the walls down.  But it's not a guitar.

There's nothing in this world like doing one of those Pete Townshend windmill chords when you whack every string so hard you know you may very well break every string on the guitar but, damn, it feels too, too good ... and the sound.  Damn.  Nothing else does that.  Some synth players are really good at doing guitar on the keys but do you want to wiggle your fingers or slam all hell out of something.  Guitar is physical!

Drum God goes, sure it's physical, Satchmo.  Let's see you do it with all your hands and feet at the same time.  Don't tell me about physical ... pfft.

Of course, what the Drum God says is right.  What drummers do is obviously impossible.  Just check out Yoshiki in X Japan sometime.

But the way the guitar vibe gets stronger yet is through Maestro Michi Renoir, one hell of a synthesizer-playing finger-wiggler.



Last night was the RezDay (anniversary of the day you signed up for Second Life) of one of the ladies in the audience and Michi Renoir was dedicating the show to a celebration of it.  If that raises an alert that this could get mushy, well it should.  It did.  Michi plays very pretty stuff when he does his romantic stuff but it's not going to make you feel like King Kong the Jungle Sex God.

Bblbabe is the lady with the RezDay and Happy RezDay to her.  She was thoroughly enjoying the performance and it looked liked like her day was going pretty well.  She said she sometimes still feels like a newbie but it doesn't look like she has to worry about that.



So Maestro Michi had Bblbabe gulled by his romantic stuff and then he decided to switch it up a little bit.  With just a tiny bit of intro, Maestro Michi lets it rip with a second remix of "I Love Rats."

It floored me when he did it the first time and he did it again.  He's made it longer this time and it is hitting hard all the way through.  I would like to jam with Michi more than anyone else on the planet as blowing things up in RL would be an absolute riot.  Synth and guitar dancing with each other are as destructive as rock and roll can get.  I want this!

I'll ask Michi for a copy of it and hopefully he has one.  If so then I'll put it out on the podcast, probably within a few days.

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