well, i for one received your post so welcome and i so totally agree on talk
to me. it is one of my favorite songs on earth. the guitar is superb. the
first time i heard it in the 70's i thought that no one could squeeze so
much music out of a simple guitar. i was very much a piano person before
joni but we didn't have a piano at home so i had to *content* myself with my
older brother's guitar. to me guitar accompaniments meant pretty much just
strumming your way through three chords and getting away with it. when i
heard joni's "guitar management techniques" i discovered that you had an
orchestra at your beck and call if you learned how to use the alternate
tunings. i devoted years -- literally -- to studying her tunings until i
*discovered* (i'm in quotation mark mode today) the G tuning. i wrote more
than a 100 songs in that tuning alone!!! by the time i heard talk to me, i
had stuck to the G tuning for so long (way back from the days of the circle
game so you do the figures) that i had missed the point of the alternate
tunings: i again needed rubber fingers or REAL musical knowledge to get
something new or fresh sounding out of the same tired tuning. and then comes
joni with all her guitar slapping and sliding and basically very few chords
to build her crazy funny funny funny monologue upon.
the lyrics were ME!!!! if you know me you know i talk too open and free and
i always pay a high price. and i always feel miserable in the presence of a
mister mystery.
joni rules all right.
wally
