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God I Love Music! Pt 1,452,322

Yesterday I was wasting some time just surfing the net, and came across this gem from Mike and the Mechanics.

First, before I go any further, I must mention that Mike Rutherford is a HUGE influence on my bass playing. Very under-rated. At :54 seconds in, listen to the way the bass lays down the descending scale while the guitar plays the same two chords…. Brilliant. Paul Carrack is a musical virtuoso, can play about anything, and is vocal GOD. So much soul! I should have payed more attention to Paul Young, who, sadly, is no longer with us.

Anyway…. While listening to the song, I asked myself “Hmmm, I wonder if I can play this?”. So I surfed the net and found several websites with the chords… or supposedly the chords to the song! I picked up the guitar and started trying to play the song according to the pages, but, as is the usual with so many internet chord pages, they were wrong! So I started plucking the string until I found the root and the fifth, and, after putting the capo on the first fret, I was suddenly off to the races! I’m not sure what the middle walking scale at 2:41 is yet, but I’ll figure that out soon enough.

Don’t get me wrong, I am a bass player, and will always be a bass player. I’m proud to be in that club. But playing / learning to play guitar is so much fun! It feels like a whole new world of music is opening up before my eyes!

Here is another great Mike and the Mechanics song. LOVE the bass line!

Trying Too Hard

There is so much going on in the world right now, yet I just can’t seem to get motivated to write about any of it. The more I try, the more locked down I get.

Surly I must have some thoughts on Egypt!

My only thought on Egypt are….

• Good for them.
• And it’s funny that the same people who were for democratic uprisings in 2001 – 2010 (Limbaugh, Hannity, etc) are now going ape shiite and lamenting over Egypt. Apparently, overthrowing autocratic regimes and installing democracies in the Middle East is only a good thing when we are in a position to bully the process for an outcome more to our liking. The situation in Egypt is completely out of our control… As it should be.

That’s all I got. I have more detailed thoughts and should be able to expand on that, but the motivation just is not there. So  I’m taking a few days off from blogging….  Which can only mean I’ll be back tomorrow with a really long post!.

PS. I will be back with two really long posts. But they were started a couple of weeks ago and just need some touch-up.  So, in my mind, they aren’t “new” posts, just unfinished business.