tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7747538215642366340.post6626898206646018876..comments2012-10-27T08:06:07.472-07:00Comments on wiaiwya-LittleMartha: more on John FaheyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7747538215642366340.post-50999689276103741432012-09-22T04:02:34.100-07:002012-09-22T04:02:34.100-07:00saw this just now on someone's blog:
"Yo...saw this just now on someone's blog: <br />"You must play until you are no longer afraid of the guitar. Many players are afraid to touch the guitar, and they act like it. You must create an intimate relationship with your guitar. Getting over your fear of it is much like a romantic-sexual conquest. It is no poetic metaphor when some songs refer to a guitar as though it were a woman. Mastering a guitar is really very similar to conquering a woman, and when you fail to master it, like when you fail to master a woman, you have the same feelings of humiliation and violence.<br /><br />When you are alone with your guitar, you must win if you are to be a man. And you can win - with any guitar. Sit there with it for six hours. No guitar can withstand the creative spirit that is in every human being.<br /><br />Anyone who calls his guitar a “box” does not understand. Anyone who calls his guitar an axe cannot play it very well.<br /><br />The typical middle-class interpreter of folk music makes his guitar sound like a metronome, without timbre changes and without percussive and loud-soft tone contrasts. He is a friendly guy. He likes everybody. He smiles alot. He wants you to like him. He’s volk. To hell with him. The real test when someone is playing hot or hard-driving is this: Does his music make you want to dance, or not?"<br />— John Faheylaurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17219928545078883437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7747538215642366340.post-48381012542334077842012-09-21T01:01:25.100-07:002012-09-21T01:01:25.100-07:00Great stuff.Can't wait to hear your record. I ...Great stuff.Can't wait to hear your record. I love the song titles too they conjure up so much, like 'Steve Talbot on the Keddie Wye' I now know its a bridge! His music stirs emotion. When I listen to 'Life is Like a Mountain Railroad' i have a big grin on my face. Love it.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10595623134680449309noreply@blogger.com