LOL - yeah - see you at the New Year’s Eve party in 2049 brother!! The Scotch casked today should be just about right! Interesting parallels in the 1986 novel “Snow Crash” by Neal Stephenson - accurately predicted the “Metaverse” (undoubtedly someone at Facebook read it), Google Earth (it was just “Earth” in the book), and a bunch of other somewhat less probable, but potentially “accurate in the future” stuff.
Thanks Michael. I'm going to pick up on your newsletter even though I'm not a musician. (I destroyed my fingers playing various sports when I was younger). However, my brother took up the guitar at 58 and still practices daily at age 70. But he's an electric guy (Les Paul). I'm interested in learning about structure, specifically chord structures, progressions and variations. Then I listen for them in the music I like. Just another interest, of which I already have a lot. Probably too many. Thanks for expanding my horizons, Michael. -- Jim
I actually write or include links to articles featuring electric guitar quite often. One of my very early posts advocated an electric guitar purchase as a beginner’s second purchase after an acoustic (with electronics or a soundhole pickup). There are many advantages to both and each can support the other, especially early on where an electric is a bit easier to wrangle with the pickups and amp doing some of the work for you until callouses build up and finger dexterity becomes natural. Welcome aboard and cudos to your brother for never giving in to the “olds” - some of the best guitarists I know are older and have been playing for years! BTW - I did a lot of music theory oriented posts early on - at michaelfab.substack.com/archive scroll down to the post entitled “It Starts With A Note” - that series over a few weeks was heavy on theory.
I'm on it, Michael. I was first fascinated many, many years ago by Chet Atkins, James Burton and Doc Watson, then blown away by Ry Cooder, Leo Kottke and Tommy Emmanuel. In fact, I saw Leo just last year. He's in his mid 70s now, and has lost his fastball, but he still plays beautifully. And still funny as hell. I'm a new fan, Michael. I learned something today, and that's always a good thing! -- Jim
Thanks, Paul. I had fun writing it. Because of space limitations -- I try to keep these things around 2,000 words -- I had to ditch some really good joke material.
Keep up your good work, Paul. I follow everything you publish, and have several things bookmarked. -- Jim
LOL - yeah - see you at the New Year’s Eve party in 2049 brother!! The Scotch casked today should be just about right! Interesting parallels in the 1986 novel “Snow Crash” by Neal Stephenson - accurately predicted the “Metaverse” (undoubtedly someone at Facebook read it), Google Earth (it was just “Earth” in the book), and a bunch of other somewhat less probable, but potentially “accurate in the future” stuff.
Thanks Michael. I'm going to pick up on your newsletter even though I'm not a musician. (I destroyed my fingers playing various sports when I was younger). However, my brother took up the guitar at 58 and still practices daily at age 70. But he's an electric guy (Les Paul). I'm interested in learning about structure, specifically chord structures, progressions and variations. Then I listen for them in the music I like. Just another interest, of which I already have a lot. Probably too many. Thanks for expanding my horizons, Michael. -- Jim
I actually write or include links to articles featuring electric guitar quite often. One of my very early posts advocated an electric guitar purchase as a beginner’s second purchase after an acoustic (with electronics or a soundhole pickup). There are many advantages to both and each can support the other, especially early on where an electric is a bit easier to wrangle with the pickups and amp doing some of the work for you until callouses build up and finger dexterity becomes natural. Welcome aboard and cudos to your brother for never giving in to the “olds” - some of the best guitarists I know are older and have been playing for years! BTW - I did a lot of music theory oriented posts early on - at michaelfab.substack.com/archive scroll down to the post entitled “It Starts With A Note” - that series over a few weeks was heavy on theory.
I'm on it, Michael. I was first fascinated many, many years ago by Chet Atkins, James Burton and Doc Watson, then blown away by Ry Cooder, Leo Kottke and Tommy Emmanuel. In fact, I saw Leo just last year. He's in his mid 70s now, and has lost his fastball, but he still plays beautifully. And still funny as hell. I'm a new fan, Michael. I learned something today, and that's always a good thing! -- Jim
Yeah, Jim. I think you nailed it! A couple of notes as I was reading this future history lesson:
-"The Planet of the Jetsons" might have been a great movie...but the writers are on strike, oh no!
-I am NOT my data
-you spelled megagland wrong
-why are the game players on the toilet, in your mind? WTF JIm.
Climate is not weather - repeat after me "Climate is not weather". (We've had this weather stuff for 4.543 billion years).
-And don't listen to old men named Klaus who think they are in charge of my world.
-The only intelligence the Quaggians find is artificial, thus the term saccharine brained dopes - SBD's. That will be a thing in 2050.
-Glad Keith will be around for a few more centuries. Who'd have thunk being on heroin for 30 years would give you eternal life?
Anywho, I laughed, I cried, then I laughed a bit more. Great article, Nostradamus!
Thanks, Paul. I had fun writing it. Because of space limitations -- I try to keep these things around 2,000 words -- I had to ditch some really good joke material.
Keep up your good work, Paul. I follow everything you publish, and have several things bookmarked. -- Jim
GREAT READ Jim!!! Interesting and funny!
Thanks Adam. Pass it on!