Been awhile since I been here and had anything to spout off about. Maybe that's a good thing and maybe it's a sign that I'm losing my edge........NOT!!! The body may age but the mind stays as young as ever! I may not be able to jump off amplifiers or the stage anymore but my mind keeps tellin me..."GO ON ya puss! this ain't nothin to worry about! You can do it!". that's when I get in trouble! When I say trouble, it's not an issue with another person but with myself. Screw everybody else and their opinions of me and how I should act or what I should do. My personal standards are usually higher than most people I've met and this is my life to live not anyone else's anyway! You live yours the way you want, and let me have the freedom given me by a higher power than you, to live mine.

Music is going great but I'm starting to have these thoughts or notions to go instrumental with my future works. I have always loved to write and it gives me great joy to write lyrics. There is something so internally satisfying from the challenge of conveying a thought or story using as few words as possible and picking out the exact words that will portray the feeling, emotion, or visual event. Add in the complication of extracting the proper amount of syllables to flow with the song BPM and accents, it then becomes a living thing that is euphoric. I do so love that. But as I construct each song each instrument, each measure, each beat, it starts to become it's own life that I have a hard time covering over all the nuances that make it special with words or vocals. So I must look for a medium in how I use vocals in a song as an instrument no different than the guitar, bass, keyboards, or drums. Maybe I'm challenging myself a little to much, but then. why the hell not! I've know so many great guitar players in my career and the one thing that stands out to me the most is that as they get older most (not all) seem to gravitate towards playing the blues. Now blues is a great music style that I love to death, and if they would do something creative with it I would love it even more. But they don't! Look at Eric Clapton, Gary Moore, Rick Derringer, Pat Travers.... Great Rock Guitarists, Hall of Famers, and due the respect they deserve but also justify my point. ALL of them took the blues route as they aged. And they all covered and recorded mostly blues works that have been covered and recorded to death! Songs already written by those true blues artists of historical value. True Blues artists are the ones that have only played and composed blues songs throughout their career. It's like being a city boy your whole life growing up with the urban frame of mind then all of a sudden tomorrow...you're a cowboy! Bought the boots, the shirt, jeans, belt buckle, & hat! Problem is, real cowboys can spot you a mile away before you ever open your mouth (which is a dead give away) even the country boys see the lack of truthiness! When this happens to a guitarist (IMHO) they loose the cutting edge creativeness which made them great in the first place. Why would someone do that? Did they become tired of trying to set the standard and just want to fade away? If that is the ticket then so be it... I find it sad that they no longer want to push the music world in a new direction. And I'm not talking about the Miley Cyrus, Justin Beeber bullshit promo hype no talent media crap that has nothing to do with personal musical creativeness. That's just a media giant trying to keep its bottom line intact at any expense. Shit...Give me the dollars spent on recording and promotion and I could be just as big AND create my own songs without a six figure team of songwriters whose souls are owned by the same media giant sucking away my royalties!
Well Crap! Now I've climbed up on this soapbox and need a freaking ladder to get down! On the bright side...it's more angst to write a song about AND create lyrics in order to convey a message! LOL!
Appreciate Ya!