Saturday, October 14, 2017

my first guitar teacher - in a music academy - used to dangle this in front of me as the piece i'd learn one day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0aMCpRZPZE



i didn't get there. but, i enjoyed the style. and i'm a life long fan.

i was never able to get into anything in the metal spectrum though. it wasn't just the superfluous expressions of empty masculinity, it was the accompanying rigidity in playing - because men can't express emotions, maybe? i'm a feel player. i can enjoy the technicality, but truly intellectual technicality understands that the instrument is about expression, and that's what the best jazz players understood and almost every metal player never has.

the metalheads don't just lose that touch, they seem to take pride in not having it, and look down on anybody that does.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.