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splake

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  1. Is there a moderator out there that can take a dull rusty knife and put this thread out of its misery. Just when you think its dead, it rolls over and grows another head.
  2. I remember all the classics I read in English Literature. Every professor I ever had, used to say In Moby **** Mellville used the Whale to symbolize this, and the harpoon symbolizes that, or in Hemminways Old man and the Sea, the fish symbolizes this and the struggle that. On and On, every book we cracked. . I am just asking the question. Is it possible that an author like Hemmingway, just say down with a bottle of rum, a few cuban cigars and 1/2 a key lime pie and wrote a story. And we just overanalyze the syntax, characters, and plot?. Maybe we should just read the book or play a song and enjoy it for what it is. Angie is a cool, bluesy acoustic classic. Who the He*L Angie is, or what Key it happens to be in the the 7th dominant or whatever, is irrelevant. Theory is an area I hope to improve in and there are dudes on this forum who forgort more about theory than i will ever know, but does it comes to a point where something is so overanaylzed it becomes unenjoyable, like work.? Its a job, Christ, I already have one job I do not like. Sting once said that it is impossible for him to listen to a song without his mind constantly working, breaking it down, so he can not enjoy music like the normal man. Well after reading all of this, I am glad I am a dummy wallowing in my ignorance. If I ever get to the point where I have to break stuff down like discecting a frog, Christ what the point.? Are we splitting Atoms at the University of Chicago or listening to Goats head soup. Would knowing Theory better make me a better guitar player? , Yup, I believe it. Im working on it. But when I got to crack a text book and use a thesarus and wikipedia to anaylze a sentence, Its time to sell the guitars and start playing spoons. Its Music. No more, no less. When it becomes Science.... Im out. Time to move to the back of the class and throw spit wads. My head hurts. ,
  3. You lost me at "two further points". I feel like I am in 2nd grade, struggling with my 2+2 flash cards whle Albert Einstein stands on the desk and explains nuclear fission. I wish I knew 1/10th of this theory. I wonder how much of this stuff, that Keef and Mick actually know. Or did they just pick up the Bird and riff. The best advice an old guitar player ever told me,,,, "Play what feels right, don't over think it, with time it will come". Then again, I suck, so what do I know.
  4. I dont know hot she is or what key she's in, . All I can say is that she is a B*TCH to play. been working on that tune for some time now. Ah to be able to make that Bird sing like Keef. -Pipe dream-
  5. If it is your dream guitar buy it. The Cost? Its only money. Work hard and make more of it. Now if you were not able to make a mortgage payment or your kid needed braces or you needed a new car or roof, that is different. But if you have 10k in discretionary income. Buy what you want. We spend so much time in our lives giving to corporations, other people, working to live. Hell, if ya got it, and you want it. Buy it.
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