What About the Jams

The only measure of goodness is whether that slacker dog is playing so, yah, and the answer is to play until you're going to topple.  Doesn't matter why you topple, just stop short of that and all is good.  You need to bring some major Jedi to this, young Skywalker.

Never thought of Luke Skywalker with an electric guitar??  Me either but it is twisted, ain't it.

That it's possible at all is mystifying but there's no point in analysis.  That's yadda and if you keep it up then you get three of them plus Seinfeld laughs at you.  Whether this can continue is unknown but it's not relevant in the Big Game where there is only the Now ... then everything else.  That's not despair but rather awareness open on all channels.

There was some talk of Pick Paranoia due to the observation from someone else whenever a pick falls, it never makes it to the floor but rather gets teleported to another dimension.

Here's Pick Paranoia at the Rockhouse:

There are two holders for guitar picks on the primary mike stand with each holding seven or eight picks plus one in the strings of the guitar.  Unless at least one of those holders is near full, the show ain't goin' happen.

To ensure those pick holders are stocked at all times, there is a reserve cache of picks from somewhere and they're thin but not quite the same thinness and flexibility of Fender thin picks.  They came in a fit of desperation when it seemed no Fender thin picks were available.

The pick box has the primary cache and these ones are Fender thin picks ... but ... there's additional cachet for the collection of purple Fender thin picks which are separate from the cache of traditional tortoise shell Fender thin picks.

The fallback from no-picks-available is not to go with fingerpicking as, first, I suck at it but mostly it's not a sound I want to make it.  I don't believe it's possible for a human finger to match the staccato of a hard pick yet I do know some are really good and can get close.

To my taste, the Fender thin pick gives me the perfect flexibility in attack because I can bend it and make a scoop to some extent so the pluck of a string will be sharp like a laser beam from the heart of the Sun.  For a guitar, I have never heard anything else give that level of staccato as it just comes right out of nowhere.

(Ed:  a laser beam from the heart of the Sun is kind of impossible)

Yah but you knew what I meant (larfs).

In part it's laziness because I know there's huge coolness in fingerpicking from Mark Knopfler to Voodoo Shilton but it still doesn't make the sound I want to make and this part isn't about devices but the root string sound.

As to whether it was worth more than a pound of sawdust tonight, Yevette thought it should have been recorded.  That's not a teaser and the next time recording has to be active or no go like the pick holder is empty.

There's some amazement and also some confusion for wtf just happened but the amazement chews up the wtf.  Extremely strange days, these ones, but plenty of bizarro observations on things (i.e. goodness).