Pickture this.
Crap.
Half-way through a song, my pick broke.
Snapped clean in two.
And the little end fell in the guitar.
Think its hard to get a pick out? Try getting half a pick out. The little end. There’s no weight to it.
Guitar Hero 3
Oh my god.
This game is going to rock.
I am almost definitely going to have to purchase an Xbox 360.
Or finally get an electric.
Poor Steven Seagal
I keep seeing articles talking about how the FBI destroyed Steven Seagal’s career, how he went form big time action movie hero to dtraight to dvd has-been.
You gotta feel for the guy.
I mean, look at his contemporaries - Bruce Willis just did Die Hard 4.0, Syvester Stallone did Rocky Balboa, both sucessful box office hits.
Seagal starred in Attack Force.
Ever heard of it?
Neither.
What do you do when you are a washed up action movie star with little future prospects on the silver screen?
You start playing the blues. And, of course, you say you’ve always been a blues-man, never mind the action movie career. And the whole complaining of the way it went away.
He’s not overly bad, really. I mean, it sounds like he might be able to sing. And play a few decent licks. He’s even played with greats like Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, and Bo Diddly shows up on his CD ‘Mojo Priest.’
I still have trouble getting past the fact its him though. Keep expecting him to be attacked by hundreds of ninjas or whatever.
Not the bluesiest song, but everything else has fairly bad sound quality.
Check out how amazingly mutli-racial the video is though, can anyone say Politically Correct?
Apparently he’s working on a new action movie. About the blues.
Is it wrong of me to want him to smash someone over the head with a guitar?
Yer Blues.
“Feel so lonely. Wanna Die.”
For a classic Beatles song, from the White Album, the lyrics sound so…. emo.
I suppose it just represents the link between the different music styles. Rock, and Emo, both supposedly trace their roots back to the Blues.
But still, I’ll take the blues any day. Music with true feeling and expression as opposed to boy bands with instruments and ridiculous hair wailing into microphones, I mean come on.
Even this song, written by John Lennon apparently as a mockery of the blues - much in the same way we would mock emo by writing lyrics such as “You don’t like me. Gonna cut myself.” - is vastly surperior to a lot of that angst ridden stuff that comes out these days.
Of course, the beatles studio performance lacks the edge the blues needs. I mean lets face it, Harrison wasn’t really a blues guitarist.
So how do we give the song the oomph it needs?
Easy.
Bring Clapton in. Makes it a Blues masterpiece.
While My Finger Gently Bleeds
Everyone’s had one of those nights where, basically, they drink far too much and lose control over their motor skills.
It usually manifests itself in drunken stumbling and falling down stairs or into gutters.
Not too long ago, however, I had something much worse.
I’d been having a few beers with Jordan before moving on to Scotch. This was really where things started heading downhill. After beer, (as good as Stella Artois is) Johnny tasted absolutely divine, and I began knocking it back far too fast.
We decided to have a bit of a jam, maybe try and make a cover of a song.
I, slightly unbalanced, retrieved my guitar from my room and thankfully managed to get it back into the study without tripping and falling on it.
We kept drinking for a bit - I have hazy recollections of seeing my glass half full of straight scotch at one point - before I finally grabbed the guitar to play.
Or tried to.
I mean, I was making noise, but there is no way that could be called music.
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