I can live with people telling me I'm a dick. Sometimes they're right and sometimes they're wrong. This is the true touch of genius - knowing when you're being a dick.
These are beautifull albums, especially The AEoR one !
If you don't know them already you should like that : Hadouk trio : Barca Solaris :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LElddjmCs4I
I saw some fans of Jazz Manouch A lot of things... alive as never !🙂 Lovers of guitar should appreciate this : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_S4eqfiox4
..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCcB3dbhiHU (balkanic ?!)
.... And sure talking again to Pink Floyd, Whish You were here is a far better album than DSOTM... ,less involving with weed though !
It is a very hard instrument to learn. I spent about an hour with one several years ago and could get a bit of music out of my left hand. The right hand couldn't make anything but noise.
I would love to have one, but they are hideously expensive. The new models are aluminum with full MIDI electronics, Google "Chapman Railboard". They start at $3000.
I figured that I would make one some day. I will start with something like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsFl0b6DNxk
There was an even simpler build that I found several years ago made entirely from hardware store parts. I can't find it now.
The Harpeji is also cool, sounds great, but expensive. It may be possible to DIY, but that is a project for another time. It's digital equivalent:
LinnStrument
I prefer the first Alt-J album, before the original guitar player left. Who else would think of playing a Stratocaster with a roll of electrical tape. We will see where they go from here.
Cut from a similar mold, but from the other side of the world......Tame Impala and Pond
Something different, Umphrey's McGee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPiX9dHrv_I&list=RDZPiX9dHrv_I
On Amazon to order some Alt-J! Thanks!!!
Here's some Avishai Cohen (bassist). There's also an Avishai Cohen (trumpeter). This is the bassist.
Freaking full concert available to watch. What a thing the web is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEhz_0yTavE
Umphrey's McGee passed a test, I turned it on and went browsing, and didn't go back to turn it off so I could get on to other things. Very cool stuff!!!
I had an interesting conversation the other day with a Scottish bloke that I work with on stadium shows.
He ventured that he has had years long habit sessions on Alcohol, Heroin, Coke, Weed, Speed, Ecstacy and LSD plus more, separately and concurrently.
He maintains as I do that there is no such thing as addiction, and that in each case he has from one day to the next decided to just quit, and successfully.
He also commented that those who will not quit, and stay quit, are 'weak in the jocks'.
The bottom line is grow up and HTFU.
He has a daughter who has gotten tangled into the 'Ice' boyfriend/crowd.
He is talking about going hard into Ice for a couple of months and then getting off it in order to be able to advise her how to straighten out.
He has the self confidence and self will to do it successfully.
Dan.
Q - How many psychologists/psychiatrists does it take to change a light globe ?.
A - None. But the light globe has to really want to change.
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Others have said that it all sounds the same, and can get boring after a while. I find that their live shows are more entertaining than the studio CD's that I have purchased. There is a lot of their material out there on Youtube and their own web site.
I believe that addiction varies from person to person, and substance to substance. I know people who have an addictive personality. They are easily addicted to something, and will easily go from one addiction to another. My father was one, so is one of my brothers, so I have chosen to steer clear of substances that are addictive.
The most addictive, hard to give up substances, seems to be tobacco.
I have successfully quit both alcohol and tobacco by this very method. Simply stop doing it.
I am not so sure I would have the same success with heroin and such, so I never started.
I think addiction is real, but it is different for different people. Some people have enough will to stop anything (and so they don't believe in addiction). Others abuse themselves right up until their final breath.
In his fiction book 'Junky' that's what one Bill Bourrough's characters said. and he should know.
https://youtu.be/DnxweVAvE5w
the "problem' or danger with health is the illegal product dosage isn't controlled.
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This is what science is saying too, the "addictive personality" is caused by certain genes affecting the way the brain regulates dopamine.
I do think though, personally speaking with great will power you can probably overcome your inherited weaknesses, that said many people cannot conjure up that degree of willpower easily.
I had little difficulty starting and stopping tobacco use and nicotine is regarded as being as physically addictive as heroin. My Mothers late friend couldn't give up the ciggaretes even after cancer and a heart attack, so we're all very different.
Gordon.
Tobacco isn't more addictive, it is just easier to stay addicted.
Why?
1) It doesn't have immediate health risks.
2) It is legal (even encouraged)
3) It is socially acceptable (for the most part) -even "cool" in some circles
So, the only real reasons to quit tobacco are financial cost and long-term health risks. For many smokers, these are perfectly acceptable - as long as they can keep enjoying their smokes.
Is it hard to quit smoking? No. It's just really easy not to quit.
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I am one of those people with an addictive personality. However, quitting is just a matter of will power, as you say. I seem to at least have sufficient will power to balance out my addictive tendencies. It is the people who do not have this balance that get into trouble.
that was my prime motivator, it was far too expensive to fund a full time smoking habit, so I managed to keep it to short spells usually around holidays or social occasions, a lot of people though would find this too hard.
Gordon.
I have my vices and am OK with them.
As for will power I have enough to not go looking for things I want to distance myself from but not enough to say "no thanks" when some of these things are right in front of me.
As for will power I have enough to not go looking for things I want to distance myself from but not enough to say "no thanks" when some of these things are right in front of me.
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