Nah, just a personal accounting of some friends that have died and how they passed. The most tragic was my friend who died mountain biking. He left a wife and an 11-year-old son behind. He was also my age, which was a real eye-opener at the time. It fully revealed to me as an adult the true impermanence of existence and the need to stretch every moment for all it's worth. Prior to that I was still working under the assumption that I was an immortal youth and I hadn't yet fully processed the interconnectedness of life and death on a personal level.
Can I marry a black guy now? Does that make Jesus cry even harder? Ideally, I'd get him pregnant and abort the baby, for extra heresy. The black guy's baby, not baby Jesus.
Not quite to that level yet, I'm thinking "demo tape" quality for now, so that I can start getting music out to promoters and get on stage. The living room is getting old. Also, I'd like to have better quality noise for Soundcloud.
I need to start recording myself playing, beyond using an iPhone or the shitty microphone on my laptop. I'd like to record straight into my laptop for now and mix using Cubase or whatever. How do you record yourself?
Yes. Hendrix was God.
No one has mentioned Buckethead yet. Not the "best", but a mad skill set for sure, lots of variety and technique in spades, very inventive.
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Batio's shredding puts him in the circus freak category with the rest of his kind. "Step Right Up! See the Bearded Lady! Watch the Siamese Strongmen! Listen to the World's Fastest Shredder! All real! All Alive!" Pretty boring after a while.
Having said that:
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