Joe -- This gig pays better.

Couldn't help it.
Great works by the way.

Thanks, man, I appreciate it. Hey, I did that Murph gig for YEARS. That's why I started writing advertising!

One night in Grand Rapids, some drunk who was trying to impress a pair of women paid me a $50 dollar tip to play a song I initially refused to play (I'll admit it, it was "Send In The Clowns"). Now, I knew that song... I even knew the weird time signature it's written in, not the formless Judy Collins version.

But this is 1977, and $50 was a pocketful. So I played the formless Judy Collins version, took his 50, and started thinking about getting off the road.

Governments of the world take note!!!

People can get along with differences intact!!

And yes Bigjay, I'm going to keep making unmusical noise on my strat.

Very cool stuff Slapchop. All of it. One of my good friends locally, is a hardcore blues fanatic, and he hates my playing. He calls me the picasso of the partsocaster and then takes the guitar out of my hands. Ha!

FYI - I have been offered a residency at Cycleway. The location of some of my clips. This is warning to steer clear. I wouldn't want my new friends to damage their hearing. I don't play loud.... just wrong.

And here is a Cecil Taylor video (whose music I love). Yes he's a piano player. Conservatory trained in classical music, then turned to jazz. He faced huge opposition from all fronts when he first started out. Couldn't get a gig, or a record contract. He's a genius (my opinion, but I'm not alone.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP5L8tjnB6w

Good Lord! I'm not one to criticize anybody and pretty well don't like those who do, but WTF? Does it say "Paul is dead" and sound like music if you play it backwards?

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Old age and treachery will win every time over youth and enthusiasm.

"You can never have too many Tele's." A quote from my Sweetwater Sales Engineer

Yep. That's what the jazz critics in the 50's said about Cecil Taylor.

That old video of him seems conservative to me now. I could really scare you with some microtonal stuff via Harry Partch. It is nearly Halloween right?

Never mind. Anybody interested in microtonal music already knows about Harry Partch... and is probably not reading the Fender Lounge posts.

Er.... except for me.

It might, but please don't post it to YouTube!

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Old age and treachery will win every time over youth and enthusiasm.

"You can never have too many Tele's." A quote from my Sweetwater Sales Engineer

Bigjay! You're funny man..... I think a fart in church on YouTube. With close ups of peoples faces would be good.

And no I'm not joking with the outside playing. I actually like that stuff.

I play Fender guitars, into Fender amps.... always a Fender amp! A big fan of the Fender sound.

So here I am on Fender's site.

I knew in the beginning I would pull in some negativity towards what I'm doing. This is a bastion of blues and rock styles. A lot of pentatonic scales. Which I like. But I like the augmented scale just as much. The diminished scale..... chromatic scale. I have whole compositions written using these. Odd meters. The works. I'd like to play microtones too, but I don't have enough frets. I need a fretless guitar!

So yes, I've drifted to the wrong side of the tracks by posting here.

And on the other hand, on the modern music sites devoted to this stuff, I've been made to feel unwelcome when they find out I'm playing a strat!

Yeah... lots of different booze can get you drunk. Ever notice some brown liquor will give you worse hangovers than others?

Modern classical music = whiskey hangover

Heutis

Why not do the absolutely masterful thing and develop microtonal playing into its proper standing. You never hear anyone move in perfect correspondance within a microtonal key. Instance suppose they move key from E to A### with the A# note and the trem, they never then move accurately within that A### key. No D### as a perfect 4th.

That if you chose could really develop your playing. Even Vai and Satch dont get it bang on.

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I'd rather listen to Heustis's stuff than hear Poker Face one more time... (My daughter has her radio on too loud again...)

I think it's pretty brave to go to a venue and play that type of music...

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Nikininja,

You are right of course. I've barely scratched the surface of microtonal music in my own playing. I bend notes with my fingers and use the wiggle stick to get there sometimes, but I've got a long way to go.

I have some buddies into indian raga stuff. And they can have as many as 32 notes per octave. Very sophisticated rhythmically too.

I've got a really long, long way to go....

I want a fretless guitar real bad.

Thanks dbrodie!!!

HA! Poker Face....he, he...