Today's Lunch:Today my lunch will consist of a Kale salad topped with slices of hard boiled eggs, jalepeno peppers, red onions and pace mild salsa for dressing. I'll finish with a little babybel cheese wheel.
Music Topic:Last Song you listened to, and what in particular your impression of the song is.
The last song I listened to was Sherpa by the Tragically Hip.
My impression of Sherpa:
The melody, a haunting melancholy groove, and the arrangement both work well with the timbre of Gord Downie's voice. It's one of those songs I can put on repeat listen to ten times in a row - just for the groove. It's a slow song, but not without power. It's the kind of song that is easy to play but difficult to write. Your mileage may vary.
Personal-Music Topic: When did you start playing guitar and why:I started playing when I was 19 - but I would have played earlier if I could have afforded to buy a guitar. To be sure, I played "air" guitar for many years before I was able to get a real guitar. I couldn't tell you exactly when I first began to want to play guitar, but it would have been in my early teen years - when I began to listen to (and admire) bands like Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Police, Eric Clapton, etc.
I remember watching a recording of Jimmy Page playing with Led Zeppelin, and pulling out the violin bow to play Kashmir - that probably was the moment I decided I wanted to -be- Jimmy Page. LOL! Hey - we all gotta start somewhere! I'm a product of that environment. By the time I could afford a guitar, my music tastes began to include a whole lot more blues than rock - but I "blame" my love for guitar on that one video clip where Page seemed to me to be the coolest guy in the world. To this day I still keep my eyes peeled for anyone selling a pair of black bell bottomed slacks with bright red and gold oriental dragons emblazoned down the legs!
First Guitar: Mine was an early (blonde) 70s Gibson Les Paul Deluxe, which I bought second hand for $600 in '87.
Non-Music: Favorite author(s) growing up. I think us older guys (50+) read a lot more books than those who now spend all their time reading the Internet. Not judging - just taking notes. So when I grew up, reading books was something most of us did. My favorite author would have been JRR Tolkien. Other authors I admired were all Sci-fi or fantasy writers: Michael Moorcock, David Eddings, Terry Brooks, Frank Herbert, Umberto Eco, John Christopher, Stephan R. Donaldson etc.)
I still like to read, and as the father of five kids, I've read a lot of books to my kids - mostly sci-fi *hehe*
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