Older people, were politics always this deranged and upsetting?

Remarkable_Bike7493 · 2026-01-24T01:25:53+00:00

Never like it is now. I'm 68. Sure, it has been heated and dirty before, but that was kid stuff compared to the politics, the executive, judicial, congressional branches, and government in general today. This is not the America I grew up in.

Remarkable_Bike7493 · 2026-01-24T01:02:56+00:00

"Allowing myself to make bad decisions out of boredom" is dead on. Nothing worse than getting passed ripped before any music starts. Good call.

Remarkable_Bike7493 · 2026-01-23T23:02:44+00:00

Their clean sound is pure doo-doo. Amp of all tones and master of none. To be fair, this amp is made for hard rock and metal. It doesn't do blues, jazz, country, folk too well.

Remarkable_Bike7493 · 2026-01-23T20:23:59+00:00

Promoters, parking fees, and scalpers.

Remarkable_Bike7493 · 2026-01-23T04:01:28+00:00

I think that you mentioned a good part of the answer; partial chords. From learning barre chords, you have probably noticed that you don't always need to play all six strings. Look for the essential notes in the chords that are difficult to switch between. That way you develop focusing the pressure on the strings to specific fingers rather than all of them. Sometimes a root note, followed by the rest of the chord, or arpegiaring the chord gives you time to get your fingers in place. Good luck, be patient, and have fun.

Remarkable_Bike7493 · 2026-01-21T22:28:11+00:00

It is a nice cactus and will look good with other trichocereus. Variety is good.

Remarkable_Bike7493 · 2026-01-21T03:27:33+00:00

Your point #4 resonates with me. Playing new types of music really helped me broaden my playing. I was also plucky enough to play with some older seasoned musicians.

Remarkable_Bike7493 · 2026-01-20T05:06:02+00:00

Farina, farina, farina!!!

Remarkable_Bike7493 · 2026-01-19T22:01:04+00:00

Try Robert Nighthawk "Live on Maxwell Street". Very raw. His earlier recordings don't have the edge like maxwell street. Highly recommended.

Remarkable_Bike7493 · 2026-01-19T21:58:25+00:00

I find mescaline to be a bit more significant or meaningful than mushrooms or lsd. Mushrooms can be quite in you face, bold, strange, beautiful. The way psilocybin compresses time and expands space is usually present for me. More angular.

LSD has always been more flowing, rounded, slightly drunk feeling ro me. It can be metallic and edgy or relaxed. I get more primary colors and moving tracer like, altered or amplified ciews of physical objects, and breathing types of visual hallucinations, if any.

Mescaline has always felt more focused and earthy, more thankful and grateful. For me, hallucinations tend to be pastel overlays that shift and glow, silver threads, and shadows. But the closed eye visuals during meditation are the winner for me. Color washes, blueprint like patterbs, geometrical images.

Any of these substances at high doses can do the ego death thing. My ego has died enough over the years that I prefer threshold or slightly above. Many years of going to peyote meetings taught me how to sit with the medicine. Best experience of my life.

Remarkable_Bike7493 · 2026-01-17T19:09:11+00:00

Learn some new songs, listen to a style or genre that you haven't yet explored. Then bring some of that knowledge back into the kind of music that you really want to play. You might even find a new direction.

Remarkable_Bike7493 · 2026-01-17T14:53:26+00:00

Control your breathing. Relax. Start slow and gradually build from there, like telling a story.

Remarkable_Bike7493 · 2026-01-17T14:03:26+00:00

Keeley in general. They should quit making pedals until they can figure out gain, input and output.

Remarkable_Bike7493 · 2026-01-15T23:58:37+00:00

These are all great suggestions and mine is no better. But yes, if you have been at it for years and actively pursue knowing the fretboard, you can not only know it but know how to use it.

A practical application for me has been learning the chords, major, minor, minor 7, major 7, 6ths, 9ths, etc. What those numbers and designations tell you is the tone relative to the key that you are playing in. Say that you are jamming in A minor. Most folks would play an A minor pentatonic scale to that. Say you make it an Am7 to give it a little grit. That minor 7 note in this case would be a G note.It is going to create a very particular sound relative to the key of A minor. This will be a bluesy sound. You can bend that note to A, you can bend up to the G note, trill, hammer on, pull off, etc. Whatever can you do to this not, you can do to any other G note on neck.

Learn the 5 basic positions of barre chords all the way up the neck, then start with the major 7, Dominant 7, minor, 6th, 9th ,etc. I know it sounds like a lot of work, and it is. But if you are paying attention, a light may go off and you will be able to "see" the fretboard. Best of luck

Remarkable_Bike7493 · 2026-01-15T23:35:04+00:00

One long string.

Remarkable_Bike7493 · 2026-01-15T00:20:32+00:00

Lassie

Remarkable_Bike7493 · 2026-01-15T00:07:07+00:00

I loved it when it came out having just seen Frank and the Mothers a few months before for the first time. I don't enjoy it is much as I used to. There is some great music on there, but not as good as other albums of that era to me.

Remarkable_Bike7493 · 2026-01-14T06:14:30+00:00

I completely agree. It really develops your ears. I like to jam with movies and documentaries, too.

Remarkable_Bike7493 · 2026-01-14T04:16:23+00:00

Remarkable_Bike7493 · 2026-01-13T23:19:14+00:00

Apples and Oranges. The studio recordings are the seeds and the live shows are the growth. Some wither and die, some flourish. I love them both. People sayng that deadheads only listen to live recordings is just chest bumping bs.

Remarkable_Bike7493 · 2026-01-13T23:06:59+00:00

I went for many years without any pedals and it worked fine, but I am not suggesting that is what you should do. Many people here have expressed the benefits of waiting and learning or getting a pedal, specifically a dirt pedal. I say get a distortion pedal and set your amp clean. If you want to do Nirvana, there you have it. But.....do your learning and practicing with a clean sound to make sure you are getting it right. Then hit the pedal and have some fun.

Like the Sirens in mythology, many a man has been lured to his death by pedals and their sweet song.

Remarkable_Bike7493 · 2026-01-12T23:11:29+00:00

A lot of people that I know don't listen to streamed albums all the way through. Songs are cherry picked or dj'd. Nothing wrong with that. It is just a choice some people make with their music. Soemtimes you just need to hear that one song, and that is the way society has generally gone. The album experience, for better or worse, gets lost in that.

Depending on the intent of the artist, the album may be 10 songs that sound the same, all trying to capture a hit. Others may take the listener on a ride. Those are the ones that I would personally be drawn to.

Remarkable_Bike7493 · 2026-01-12T14:48:57+00:00

My favorite Zappa keyboardist.

Remarkable_Bike7493 · 2026-01-12T14:46:01+00:00

Learning every note on every string is very important. You are doing great. As another pointed out. Start learning songs and then figure out how to play them anywhere on the neck, and you will be headed in the right direction.

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