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Conference napalm::guitar

Title:GUITARnotes - Where Every Note has Emotion
Notice:Discussion of the finer stringed instruments
Moderator:KDX200::COOPER
Created:Thu Aug 14 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:3280
Total number of notes:61432

1883.0. "What do you do now?" by PSYLO::JOHNSON () Wed Jun 27 1990 14:45

    You pick up the guitar one day to do some practicing, and IMMEDIATELY
    realize that something is different. For some crazy reason magic has
    happened. You all of a sudden are able to execute EVERYTHING that is in
    your head effortlessy. You find that you are infact, overnight, with no
    explaination, a true guitar wizard. Not only do you realize that you
    suddenly are one of the best on the planet, you know enough about the
    world of guitar playing to suspect that it may very well be possible
    that you are THE best on the planet, that sometime during the night you
    have been "given" a gift.
    
    What do you do now? Who, what, where, when, why, and how?
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1883.1DNEAST::BOTTOM_DAVIDNice computers don't go downWed Jun 27 1990 15:393
Keep practicing until it happens again...and again....

dbii
1883.2DNEAST::PUSHARD_MIKEWed Jun 27 1990 16:038
    
    I would try to do something that hadnt been done before. Create and
    
    put it on tape.
    
    
    Mike
    
1883.3Pinch me !MILKWY::JACQUESIf you don't stop, you'll go deafWed Jun 27 1990 16:343
    Might as well just enjoy it until the alarm clock sounds.
    
    Mark
1883.4would you rather swing on a star...?TOOK::SUDAMALiving is easy with eyes closed...Wed Jun 27 1990 16:5022
    There's only two ways to go with talent - you either enjoy it yourself
    for it's own sake, or you try to use it to impress others. 
    
    In this scenario, if I suddenly woke up and found myself to be the best
    guitar player in the world, I could just sit in my basement and enjoy
    making music, like I do now. Or I could decide that I ought to be
    getting something back for it, and go out and try to become a star.
    Then I'd have to learn (all over again) that being successful in the
    music business has very little to do with the level of talent a person
    has. Which is not to say that successful musicians aren't talented -
    only that there are many other factors involved, and commitments which
    I personally don't want to make.
    
    I think everyone should ask themselves if they'd really be any happier
    if they were a much better musician than they are now. Everyone
    probably thinks that, which is why we idolize the guitar gods. just
    like everyone thinks that plastic surgery would make them happy, or
    winning the lottery, or finding the "right" lover...
    
    Be what you are, enjoy what you got. It won't get any better (or worse).
    
    - Ram
1883.5Take a riddlyn dude..!!LEDDEV::TURPINWed Jun 27 1990 18:2822
    
    Geekers guys... I don't know about anyone else, but that last reply
    made me want to go out and kill myself... Nothing like being depressed!
    
    This entry, as it seems to me, was put here to let people go wild on
    a dream... what happened there...!! (RIGHT) I'm quite sure that Joe
    Satriani, or Eddie Vanhalen (whom is a personal friend of mine)(not)!
    would be just as happy with their lives if they worked at MacDonolds
    right...?? (WRONG!!)
    
    If this really happened to someone (who is no one now), they would be
    living it up like you read about...right? (YES'em!!) I know I would...
    I mean imagen... Touring across the Globe playing Guitar for $$$$$$$$$
    Gee, I don't know about it... "I think I'd rather work at my regular job"
    (HAHA WRONG!!)
    
    AS a matter of fact... I'd start the tour off by playing on WAYNES
    WORLD..!! 
    
    My thanks to the guy who started the dream!
    
    Jt..
1883.6PELKEY::PELKEYProfessional AumbreWed Jun 27 1990 19:273
But, this happened to me last night....  How strange....

But I can't remember my name...
1883.7DNEAST::GREVE_STEVEJonathan Livingston Cat Barf..Wed Jun 27 1990 19:4620
     RE:<<< Note 1883.4 by TOOK::SUDAMA "Living is easy with eyes closed..." >>>
                   -< would you rather swing on a star...? >-
    
    
    >I think everyone should ask themselves if they'd really be any happier
    >if they were a much better musician than they are now. Everyone
    >probably thinks that, which is why we idolize the guitar gods. just
    >like everyone thinks that plastic surgery would make them happy, or
    >winning the lottery, or finding the "right" lover...
    
    
    		YES!YES!YES! if I could only play like Clapton, I'd be
    satisfied (I think).   Ram, I'd need to add a "weight loss" category,
    but otherwise your list is perfect for me... you've changed my life...
    I now have a clear vision of Steve Greve in the 90s!!!!!  Gawd, I love
    life..
    
    
    
    Steve
1883.8You Gonna Starve.SMURF::BENNETTSilence == DeathWed Jun 27 1990 22:398
	Nobody wants great anything. Only a few similarly great players
	would be capable of recognizing your greatness and they'd likewise
	be in the same bind.



	ccb of Harrison and the Bergerons.
1883.9Put it to GOOD use.MFGMEM::DERRICOThu Jun 28 1990 11:545
       I guess I'd use my talents for something productive - having something
    meaningful to say.
    
    
    J/
1883.10stay off the drugs ,dude....RAVEN1::DANDREAFrog lickers unite!Thu Jun 28 1990 18:314
    Last time that happened to me it was about 10 minutes after chugging a
    bottle of Ny Quil.....  Man, I was just SURE that I was playing great!!
    
    Stevo....yuk yuk  8)
1883.11get signed!CRONIC::SHAYNA::PCUMMINGSThere's a mingus amonk usTue Jul 03 1990 21:335
    what would I do.... hand in my resignation at DEC!
    
    
    pc
    
1883.12HPSRAD::JWILLIAMSThu Jul 05 1990 18:433
    What do you mean by "best"? I'll settle for the best at being me.
    
    							John.
1883.14It's happened to someone I knowDREGS::BLICKSTEINThis is your brain on UnixSat Jul 21 1990 00:211
    I'd become an airline co-pilot
1883.15not what they meantCOOKIE::S_JENSENWed Jul 25 1990 20:356
re -.1  ... arrgggh!  You're killing me, Dave :).


Ok, maybe what everybody meant was, I just woke up, can play guitar better than
anyone on the planet, and the masses now have *taste*, and the music industry
is fair... ha, ha, ha... geez...:)
1883.16because, because, because, because, BECAUSE...TOOK::SUDAMALiving is easy with eyes closed...Thu Jul 26 1990 15:136
    > and the masses now have *taste*, and the music industry is fair...
    
    Oh yeah, I remember that one - and then the little guy pops out from
    behind the curtain and says "Follow the Yellow Brick Road!"

    - Ram