"Gimme Shelter" may be my all-time favorite song and the chords scream for riffing on them so you know that was going to get loud. That went to something else with some for-the-hell-of-it chords and then into another thing with the distortion turned off. That last was getting kind of exotic but it also got to the sit down before you fall down stage.
I'm pleased with tanking on the last since it was blasting for most of it and tanking at the end showed me I pushed it as far as it will go for now. I want that ... a lot.
Ed: no pain, no gain?
Pain only gains more pain. This is exercise within reasonable limits.
Ed: falling down is the reasonable limit?
Well, I didn't go far enough to fall so yes. Ha.
Ed: this isn't even close to prog rock!
I've never said anything to close to any mention I play prog rock. Ha again!
The fingers will hurt every time but that isn't no pain, no gain either. That's just the price of admission for me. It's almost always worth it but maybe not if a callus breaks because that hurts big. I've heard of some using Super Glue to patch the callus and maybe I could see it for a pro gig when the show must go on but there's no way I'm doing that for jams for myself in the Rockhouse. I never did it for live either but possibly I could see it for that if I've really torn it up a lot.
For live I would try to avoid that spot and hope the audience didn't hear me scream like a girl if a string hit it. You really don't know joy until you try to push a string where the callus broke and, for live, you can't let it go. Suck it up, Axeman.
Strength has increased somewhat but motivation drives this as much as anything and I'm not clear on the jolt to that but no need to analyze it, just crank it up and go.
Sometimes there's a bust for trills (i.e. playing some sequence of notes over and over, usually at high speed) but I enjoy those and it's not so much for anyone else since part of it is just to see if I can do it.
Ed: it's the absence of ganja driving this?
I don't believe you're right but it's a fair question. We shall see what happens if Mescalito shows up sometime so I definitely must get something recorded before then for an A/B comparison. Otherwise, it's about asking the stoner if this one was cooler than that one before but that loop will just go on all night and still not get anywhere.
Sure I'm curious ... it's my music so, wtf, I'll check that out.
Yevette asked again if I recorded it and thanks for that sweet encouragement but I told her it's not time yet and it isn't. I'm feeling like the jams have been rippin' but there's more to getting that recorded than playing it without taking a dive, not so much in pushing buttons but in the mindset of readiness. Sometimes I would play three or four gigs in a day so playing three short sets in two days isn't blowing me into the stratosphere for the accomplishment but it still feels ultra damn good.
Ed: don't analye, do
Roger that, Cap'n.
I'm pleased with tanking on the last since it was blasting for most of it and tanking at the end showed me I pushed it as far as it will go for now. I want that ... a lot.
Ed: no pain, no gain?
Pain only gains more pain. This is exercise within reasonable limits.
Ed: falling down is the reasonable limit?
Well, I didn't go far enough to fall so yes. Ha.
Ed: this isn't even close to prog rock!
I've never said anything to close to any mention I play prog rock. Ha again!
The fingers will hurt every time but that isn't no pain, no gain either. That's just the price of admission for me. It's almost always worth it but maybe not if a callus breaks because that hurts big. I've heard of some using Super Glue to patch the callus and maybe I could see it for a pro gig when the show must go on but there's no way I'm doing that for jams for myself in the Rockhouse. I never did it for live either but possibly I could see it for that if I've really torn it up a lot.
For live I would try to avoid that spot and hope the audience didn't hear me scream like a girl if a string hit it. You really don't know joy until you try to push a string where the callus broke and, for live, you can't let it go. Suck it up, Axeman.
Strength has increased somewhat but motivation drives this as much as anything and I'm not clear on the jolt to that but no need to analyze it, just crank it up and go.
Sometimes there's a bust for trills (i.e. playing some sequence of notes over and over, usually at high speed) but I enjoy those and it's not so much for anyone else since part of it is just to see if I can do it.
Ed: it's the absence of ganja driving this?
I don't believe you're right but it's a fair question. We shall see what happens if Mescalito shows up sometime so I definitely must get something recorded before then for an A/B comparison. Otherwise, it's about asking the stoner if this one was cooler than that one before but that loop will just go on all night and still not get anywhere.
Sure I'm curious ... it's my music so, wtf, I'll check that out.
Yevette asked again if I recorded it and thanks for that sweet encouragement but I told her it's not time yet and it isn't. I'm feeling like the jams have been rippin' but there's more to getting that recorded than playing it without taking a dive, not so much in pushing buttons but in the mindset of readiness. Sometimes I would play three or four gigs in a day so playing three short sets in two days isn't blowing me into the stratosphere for the accomplishment but it still feels ultra damn good.
Ed: don't analye, do
Roger that, Cap'n.
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