Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Good by Amy, you will be missed
Curtis, Thank you for this. Would you be willing to share with me a bit of your musical history? Are you a studio musician, have you been in groups, if so what, are you in a group now, etc.? If you prefer this to be anonymous, would you email me at the address at the bottom of my 1st FFL post? Thank you, m On Jul 24, 2011, at 10:16 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mark Landau m@... wrote: This was a new guitar I had just purchased. It was strung in the usual way. It didn't phase him. But because it wasn't live, we didn't hear that much. We just saw the amazing play of his fingers. I didn't even know he was left handed or even that left-handed people string their guitars differently. Also, like I said, he seemed pretty stoned. The whole thing lasted about 5 minutes. Jimi turned a regular guitar upside down and strung it the right way with bass stings on the top. Guys like Albert King and Dr. Issiah Ross played it actually upside down which required Albert to pull bent strings DOWN. But a guy like Jimi could play the usual style of guitar that he had handled a million times before much better than I could play a left handed guitar. But if you put one in my hands somewhere between the second and third bourbon, I'm gunna rock the house with an upside down guitar and that's a natural fact. We may not be geniuses with the other handed guitar, but we can entertain. That is what we do. On Jul 24, 2011, at 9:21 PM, Rick Archer wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Mark Landau Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2011 4:36 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Good by Amy, you will be missed When I went into Manny's in NY to get my stratocaster in '69, Jimi was there stoned out of his gourd. When the guitar came up from the basement, he asked if he could play it. (Gawd, are you kidding?) So a few of us stood around while he did, with no amp. The dance of his fingers in the mid-range of the fret board seen up close like that was a revelation, like his fingers were Vedic gods. Are you left-handed? Otherwise how could he have played your guitar?
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Good by Amy, you will be missed
Must be their Saturn return. ;-) On 07/23/2011 02:13 PM, whynotnow7 wrote: Seriously, they all killed themselves at 27? That's spooky. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaisterno_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltabluescurtisdeltablues@ wrote: We really have to get this drug-synapse connection handled. I am sick of losing people to this shit. At her best: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVBoXtxD0Rsplaynext=1list=PL2D4F755C610950CA At 27, like Jim, Jimi, Janis, Brian, Kurt...
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Good by Amy, you will be missed
When I went into Manny's in NY to get my stratocaster in '69, Jimi was there stoned out of his gourd. When the guitar came up from the basement, he asked if he could play it. (Gawd, are you kidding?) So a few of us stood around while he did, with no amp. The dance of his fingers in the mid-range of the fret board seen up close like that was a revelation, like his fingers were Vedic gods.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Good by Amy, you will be missed
This gave me a good laugh. His, I must say, I wouldn't be so interested in. Now one of his guitars... On Jul 24, 2011, at 3:43 PM, whynotnow7 wrote: Did he give you a pair of his shoes? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mark Landau m@... wrote: When I went into Manny's in NY to get my stratocaster in '69, Jimi was there stoned out of his gourd. When the guitar came up from the basement, he asked if he could play it. (Gawd, are you kidding?) So a few of us stood around while he did, with no amp. The dance of his fingers in the mid-range of the fret board seen up close like that was a revelation, like his fingers were Vedic gods.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Good by Amy, you will be missed
Sorry, mon On Jul 24, 2011, at 3:41 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote: Jesus Mark, like your Maharishi stories were not enough, you dish out some Jimi played my Strat on my ass! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mark Landau m@... wrote: When I went into Manny's in NY to get my stratocaster in '69, Jimi was there stoned out of his gourd. When the guitar came up from the basement, he asked if he could play it. (Gawd, are you kidding?) So a few of us stood around while he did, with no amp. The dance of his fingers in the mid-range of the fret board seen up close like that was a revelation, like his fingers were Vedic gods.
RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Good by Amy, you will be missed
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Mark Landau Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2011 4:36 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Good by Amy, you will be missed When I went into Manny's in NY to get my stratocaster in '69, Jimi was there stoned out of his gourd. When the guitar came up from the basement, he asked if he could play it. (Gawd, are you kidding?) So a few of us stood around while he did, with no amp. The dance of his fingers in the mid-range of the fret board seen up close like that was a revelation, like his fingers were Vedic gods. Are you left-handed? Otherwise how could he have played your guitar?
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Good by Amy, you will be missed
This was a new guitar I had just purchased. It was strung in the usual way. It didn't phase him. But because it wasn't live, we didn't hear that much. We just saw the amazing play of his fingers. I didn't even know he was left handed or even that left-handed people string their guitars differently. Also, like I said, he seemed pretty stoned. The whole thing lasted about 5 minutes. On Jul 24, 2011, at 9:21 PM, Rick Archer wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Mark Landau Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2011 4:36 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Good by Amy, you will be missed When I went into Manny's in NY to get my stratocaster in '69, Jimi was there stoned out of his gourd. When the guitar came up from the basement, he asked if he could play it. (Gawd, are you kidding?) So a few of us stood around while he did, with no amp. The dance of his fingers in the mid-range of the fret board seen up close like that was a revelation, like his fingers were Vedic gods. Are you left-handed? Otherwise how could he have played your guitar?
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Good by Amy, you will be missed
On 07/23/2011 12:19 PM, wayback71 wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitunoozguru@... wrote: On 07/23/2011 11:23 AM, curtisdeltablues wrote: We really have to get this drug-synapse connection handled. I am sick of losing people to this shit. At her best: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVBoXtxD0Rsplaynext=1list=PL2D4F755C610950CA Legalize all recreational drugs. Use taxes from it to help educate people from grade school on up as to how these work and why people take them. Bhairi - I work in a school. Kids at all grade levels have been educated for many many years now, ad nauseum, about drug use, alcohol, smoking, what it all does to the brain and body and not to start. Things is, some kids just do it all anyway and need some way to alleviate their anxiety/stress/whatever. Maybe it would help a bit if some rock stars come out and do some ads suggesting never starting. And also promote starting to meditate, do yoga etc, as you suggest below. But lack of knowledge is not the problem any more. I also meant to mention peer pressure. Some people can get into drugs and take or leave them. I'm sure you've know people like that. And others develop a dependency on drugs. Many people feel a need to keep up with their peers. They need to know that they shouldn't and it's even a bad idea. The music scene is horrible to deal with unless you are real individual and stand up to the peer pressure that goes on there. People need to also understand themselves. Believe it or not I've seen codependency markers in horoscopes. But we can't expect a dumbass society to ever look at real horoscopes as a tool.
