*snicker*  Quit it!

TexasToest:

Grouchy, if you feel like going crazy, come talk to me.  I'll listen, sweetheart.

We'd all go crazy without baddessi.  I get way out in space sometimes, and she lassos me in.

Groucho: thanks for that- I'll be around

TexasToest: thanks, I tried. Kinda like being in art class again! It was fun for me too!
Thanks again for taking the lead!
You rock!

baddessi: yeah but if you leave we're gonna miss you and I'm gonna (go crazy) ;)

TexasToest:

Awww, thank you, Sister Texas.  That's a very nice greeting.

Thank you, Groucho.  That makes me happy.

TexasToest: Pleases me! ;)

I had a PM from b'dessi tonight saying that the globals had approved me as the main mod here.  I do hope this is pleasing to everyone.  b'dessi is staying on as a moderator, but she just can't be here as much as she was.  And, I'm around, if in and out.  If you see anything that doesn't please you, please let me know.

Hmmmm, Do.  I know I answered that, but it's surely not here.  I said it would probably be Gary playing guitar and my voice.  We've been talking about that for several years, and never done anything about it.  We just never have enough time, and you know what happened on this last trip.  

TexasToest: I would love to hear you play too. I put my dibs on the first CD off the press!!

Universal Eyes: Perhaps you should send a private message to baddessi. She isn't online much these days.

Groucho: It's been proven that musical people who do not make music become depressed. That says something about the use it or lose it scripture.

TexasToest: Music soothes the soul ;)

but I haven't played for years. I am really intending to start lessons again, but I need to find a studio. Any old piano teacher on the street won't do. My best friend's mother has a master's degree in classical piano from SMU. But, she's too old to teach anymore. She may know of a studio, though. I also want to start with voice lessons too. My breathing is way out of control since I lost 20% of my lung capacity in my right lung due to pneumonia. But, I believe a lot of problems in my life have been caused by my not making music.

TexasToest: I'd love to hear you play. I love the piano. I'm just a hacker on that. As for guitar, I'm not a master of that either but I keep learning :)

Groucho: I don't even attempt it. I always used my guitars to accompany my voice, which was my true instrument in that genre. Piano was the instrument with which I had a true mastery.

TexasToest: When I try to play like that I seem to be all thumbs :)

Groucho: His fingers never leave his hands.

TexasToest: My pleasure. He's sponsored by Taylor guitars and not to long ago he put on a show at our local music store featuring the Taylor guitar. I couldn't believe the talent. He makes it look easy too!

Groucho: I played Crary's play list last night. He's incredible. I look forward to listening to Hedges tonight. Thanks for tipping me off about these guys.

tehualL Thank YOU for the Hendrix stuff. I went on a trip in a time machine on those.

gogul: A flatpicker is someone who plays the guitar with a "flatpick" and picks single notes, usually very fast as in bluegrass. :)

gogul: welcome :)
this would be my favourite hendrix video then

http://www.pcplanets.com/video-51222-If-6-Was-9.shtml

Groucho: can anyone define a flatpicker? its a new word to me. tx

tehual: Thank you for leting me hear this again :)

Not really Jimi's masterpiece. But 12 string guitar. :)

http://www.youtube.com/v/HKL4EdxON-o

gogul: I have just become aware of Baka Beyond. A friend in the UK used to drive for them. I was listening to their stuff, and craving more, when I clicked on Jolly Mukheriee, a related artist. It is kinda new age, BUT, it has a lot of sitar and tabla in it, and I love those instruments.

TexasToest: Michael Hedges,, the one Groucho mentioned

I´ll go for Leo too! and try Baka and Jolly by the way.

Groucho: Who, Crary and Hedges? I'll go do that now, so they'll be cued up for tomorrow.

Groucho: I´ve checked it out and I like it very much. I´ll go listen to some of his recordings. Hedges is amazing.

TexasToest: Good stuff! I've saved them to my play list. Let me know what you think of Crary. It's sweet flatpickin old style! He's been around since he was a kid!

Groucho: Thanks!!! I have been listening to Baka Beyond, and Jolly Mukheriee today, but I'll check those guys out in a day or two.

He's a fabulous flatpicker. One of the best in the world.

I've saw him play last year...amazing talent.

http://www.dancrary.com/

Groucho: I'll check him out. I have one for you, but I can NOT remember his name. I have to go look through my vinyl. He wasn't too well known. But, he said when he learned how to play guitar, he thought those guys did all those notes themselves. He never planned on mixers, and other studio tricks to get those sounds. So, he learned everything note for note!

TexasToest: hey, check out Michael Hedges. If you can get any recordings of him. If you have Musicmatch, he's got 126 songs on there. He died in a car crash at 43 (sadly) but he's left some great guitar work behind. Amazing

Tuesday: Haha! That's a switch!!

Bwild: http://www.guitarmusic.org/kottke/audio/who101.mp3

http://www.chiro.org/LINKS/Leo_Kottke.shtml

He's the master of the tweleve string ;)

Bwild: Thank you. Someone who understands.

Grouchy, I know Leo Kottke, saw him live once. Quite the master, he is.

Eriisa: Lucky guess, then....I guess. But, when I run the song through my brain, I hear him singing it. I recently went through one of my famous, listen to everything he ever recorded stages. It might have been subliminal.

TexasToest: good for you....good guitars are hard to come by..

Groucho: I had an Alvarez twelve...they are nice...never heard of Leo Kottke....why do you ask?

TexasToest: I've always liked Nat King Cole, but I really guessed on that one! lol

Eriisa: Nat King Cole is correct. He wrote the song, and first recorded it in 1943.

Leave it to you. Hahaha! Good job, girlfriend.