It's made with a very light style cream sauce that incorporates white wine (I go 50/50 with beer) fresh lime juice, cream, and a fair amount of butter, shallots, ginger, and cilantro. Diced Roma tomatoes are blended and simmered with the s...auce. It is served, of course, over a nice al dente Linguini. Very light, and very tasty. I found it in a magazine called "Eating Light" quite a few years ago. Now I'm hungry and my Cliff Bar lunch isn't going to do it.
For drink, I’ll decant a nice Chardonnay. It’ll just be a small glass, as alcoholic beverages consumed in the afternoon, put me to sleep. I don’t want to crash out, as the wind forecast down at the coast is for small craft advisories, which is music to a windsurfer’s ears.
Music/G&L Content
1.) Do any of you guys use some type of finger exercise device to improve your fretting, etc.? I’ve thought about getting one of those things that have the spring-loaded plungers in order to gain finger strength. Is the strength they help build actually help for playing the guitar?
When I was around 10 years old, I took piano lessons. I never really got any good, as my heart wasn’t into it. At that age, all I wanted to do was go out and play football, baseball, basketball, etc. It was tough to engage in any “perfect practice” when I was preoccupied with getting outside to play. I do remember my mom telling me (Although I don’t know why she would have known, as she didn’t play.) that many musicians write their songs on the piano, as the keyboard may be a bit more WYSIWYG, or sonically symmetrical. I picked up an old Yamaha electronic keyboard in order to do vocal scales and perhaps better visualize scale progressions while learning modes, etc. So, this brings up my question:
2.) Do any of you guitar or bass players also play the piano? Do you find it useful for writing songs?
As was scanning my computer for interesting pictures, I found this one that I believe was taken by a friend who was working on a project with one of my favorite bands. The Traveling Wilburys just seemed to benefit from incredible individual talent that seemed to produce a quantum synergy of music. These guys just seemed to be having the closest I've seen to too much fun. So, anyway, here's the picture. I could be wrong about it being taken by my buddy, so don't quote me. I believe it to be true. Anyway, here's a cool, candid shot of the Wilburys having a conference outside while this "shoot" was being worked on. It's easy to recognize the faces, hair, and profiles of these fabulous musicians. Thanks to Greg C. for the picture.
I've got a windsurfing buddy who plays bass in the Carl Verheyen Band. I'll be going to check out the show down at a venue called the Baked Potato on June 3 (?). Are you guys familiar with Carl V.? He seems to be an excellent player, very jazzy stuff. Here's a clip of Carl V. and the band. My buddy, the bass player, is named Dave Marotta. Enjoy, if you have the time. And again, thanks for all of your contributions this week. And don't forget, this stuff can be fun, but some of us got to lurk.
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