Music Is The One Thing That Has

Once I Got A Guitar That Was Relatively User-friendly, But Not Super-duper Easy, I Really Came On As A Guitarist, At That Point. It Helped. It Was A Super-expensive Guitar Either, But Something Needs To Steer You A Bit, If You're Playing An Instrument That Is Really Hard.

From The Classical Guitar Right Through To The Furthest Electrical Experiments And Everything In-between, It's Amazing What The Guitar Can Actually Do. I Mean, When One Thinks About Sounds.

The Gut-strung Guitar, The Classical Guitar, That Is A Whole Different World On Its Own. When You Think What The Guitar Can Do And What Every Individual Player Does With A Guitar, Everyone Has Their Own Identity Coming Through The Guitar.

I Remember One Particular Occasion When I Hadn't Played A Solo For, Quite Literally, A Couple Of Months. And I Was Asked To Play A Solo On A Rock & Roll Thing. I Played It And Felt That What I'd Done Was Absolute Crap. I Was So Disgusted With Myself That I Made My Mind Up That I Had To Get Out Of It. It Was Messing Me Right Up.

I'm Obsessed - Not Just Interested, Obsessed - With Folk Music, Street Music, The Parallels Between A Country's Street Music And Its So-called Classical And Intellectual Music, The Way Certain Scales Have Travelled Right Across The Globe. All This Ethnological And Musical Interaction Fascinates Me. Have You Heard Any Trance Music? That's The Thing.