Yesteday I wrote:
I have been lurking on and off for last month or two. Would like to post a
response and some info. I remember reading about 'how to'' but do not
remember the guide and what rules to remember following - would you please
direct me to site ?
In the immortal words of Roberto De Vicenzo - " I am a stupid".
My first confession out of the way, I would like to add one more - but first
a sighting. While falling asleep to VH1 the other night (not that I do that
very often) I ran across what is probably an old Top 20 show on the "top 20
guitarists of rock and roll". Joni made the list at number 18 or so. Now the
other 19 on that list could sit down and play her songs in no time flat, but
I doubt that she could play any of theirs without a great deal of time and
practice (and in many cases, "jamais"). I believe this because even I can
play Joni's songs - now that I have the JMDL guitar tab data base to work
from :-) - but I could not hope to do what those others do. Do they call this
"transferrance " in psych ? (I know nothing about Psych). At first I thought
that maybe they the VH1 poll was paying homage to her use of multiple
alternate tunings - and to the contribution that has made to future
exploration of the guitar as an instrument. But as I recall (I was dozing off
until I heard 'the name' ) they did not spend any significant time dwelling
on that. Could it be that after all those years of underappreciation by the
liberal media, that they are now employing affirmative action as an approach
to making up for the indignities of past oversights and other similar slights
to Joni ? ;-)
Oops - no time now for the other confession - by the way, when one posts a
confession on the list, does the Reverand Vince mete out the penance ? I need
to know, cause the next sin's pretty bad. :-)
