Guitar Post

I had a dentist's appointment this afternoon, and it so happens my dentist is in Kenmore and before heading over there I had a significant amount of time to kill... Guitar Center time! For a musician, well I guess for a guitarist, there is a kid in a candy store quality to hanging out at Guitar Center. All those instruments and amps and toys to play with! Previously I hadn't been able to find the newly relocated GC and settled for Daddy's Junky Music by Berklee, where I greatly enjoyed playing a Godin archtop guitar, something about that guitar really came alive in my hands. Conversely, a Godin single bridge humbucker "shreddy" guitar really didn't do anything for me after well, shredding on it for 30 seconds. Today I really enjoyed a Fender Telecaster through a Fender Amp, I think if I were to get a new guitar I'd get a tele. There is a real beauty and versatility in the simplicity of those instruments, I think.

I find as of late I have less and less mental space for guitar, although it goes up and down. I know that if I really focused on the instrument and the study of music there is another level I could reach, but I'm frankly kind of too lazy, and too concerned with bringing my acting further. It's something I've written about in other spaces. Another contributing factor has been my inability to forge long lasting collaborations with other musicians, like say... a band, which is like being in a second relationship with no sexual intercourse but requiring a great deal of effort, and which doesn't work if all parties don't contribute.

Maybe someday I'll have the time to achieve what I want to on my instrument. I guess it's kind of a "first world problem", a lot of people are truly passionate about music but can't advance past a certain point. I can't really foresee music for me as anything other than a highly enjoyable hobby and a useful special skill. Someday I'd kind of like to be one of those people who are proficient at guitar, bass, drums and piano. Now THAT would take some doing on my part, as I'm not so naturally musically talented as to be immediately proficient at all those.

I've been downloading a lot more music now that I have a new computer with a big empty hard drive. Right now I'm listening to some pretty tasty jazz fusion from John Mclaughlin. Then again I find his newer stuff kind of sterile. I got some Grant Green as well, which is not sterile and some Derek Trucks. Lots of guitar music. And that's what this post has been about.