Notes_Norton

Only if you are a wage slave. I work for myself. As an entertainer, I get applause every 5 minutes or so, and the end of the gig I get people thanking me for a delightful afternoon/evening, and when I am playing the music, I'm in that zone where there is no time, no space, no me; just the music feeling like it's flowing through me instead of from me. Mrs. Notes and I love playing music for an appreciative audience, and although we are not going to get rich, or even wealthy playing music for a living, we paid off the mortgage, we have zero debt, we're having a great time, and we answer to nobody but ourselves. No doormat here, instead mini-star status. We played in larger bands before, but started our duo in 1985, since then, until COVID reared its ugly self, we were never out of work. Now that COVID is fading, we're back at it, we have 14 one-nighter gigs this month. Life is good.

Parchman Farm - Mose Allison

Pretending = make believe. It's Only Make Believe - Conway Twitty

Hard to answer this one. College is very expensive. If he wants to be a teacher, it's a requirement. If he wants to play music for a vocation, the knowledge is important, but not the diploma. Being a pro musician is not easy. I've done it, but I know many more who tried and failed and now do it part-time with a day-job. To be a pro musician, one has to be an entertainer and a musical chameleon. As far as sitting in your home studio and becoming a success on the 'net, I know nothing about that. Although I've been called to do sessions in recording studios, I make my living playing live in front of an audience. If he wants to have a wife and children, tell him the teacher route is probably the best one. I've known a lot of musicians who, working at night, with variable income, ended up divorced with child support payments. Insights and incites by Notes ♫

Psychotic Reaction - Count Five

I feel the same way when a cover song leaves out a great harmony line. That just leaves a gaping hole in the song.

Ran across this looking for a different version to add to a Band-in-a-Box fake disk. This girl can play the trombone with enthusiasm!!! Puttin' On The Ritz - Gunhild Carling

Stranger In A Strange Land - Leon Russell and the Shelter People

Me And Mrs. Jones - Billy Paul

He's playing mid-evil woman.

I, too, prefer paper magazines. Sadly, they are becoming extinct. Notes ♫

The experiment is to take the strings off (easy to do while changing them) or mute the strings. I tried this with my Parker and even with my hollow body 1970 Gibson ES330 when changing strings. Nothing comes out the speaker. Notes ♫

Rocks In My Bed - Duke Ellington with Ivie Anderson

If your pickup acts as a microphone, it's broken.

Shangri-La - The Kinks

OK, I'm going to get serious here, and go on a minor rant. IMPORTANT: This applies to electric guitars only, not acoustic ones. Tonewood, Schmonewood. A guitar pickup is a magnetic device, NOT an acoustic one. When studying electronics in college (I was a Cable TV field engineer for a few years) I learned how to make electricity. Move something that reacts to magnetic forces over a magnet. It's basically how the power company makes the electricity for the grid. If you pass a magnet over a wire, it generates electricity in the wire. If you pass the wire over a magnet, it creates electricity in the wire. On the guitar, the vibrating strings disturb the magnetic field of the guitar's pickup and generate a tiny amount of electricity in the coil surrounding the pickup. This is 100% magnetic, not acoustic, and the electricity generated mimics the vibration frequency of the strings. True, the wood will vibrate too, but it is less than 1% as much as the strings, and in electronics anything less than 10% is negligible. All the resistors, capacitors and everything else in your guitar is built to ± 10%. Take the strings off your guitar, or mute them, plug the guitar in, and scream into the pickup. Unless your pickups are defective, no matter how hard you scream, no matter what pitch you scream, nothing is going to come out of the amp's speaker. Try it. So it is a matter of logic, that if your loud scream doesn't make a difference, why would tonewood make a difference? The whole concept of making an electric guitar is to make the guitar as stiff as possible to keep the guitar in tune and to allow the strings to vibrate as long as possible for sustain. Thus, the influence of the wood is so small, it makes no difference to the vibration of the strings. After the electric field generated by the strings disturbing the pickup's magnetic field (called the signal) leaves the pickup, it goes through a tone circuit (most just cut or allow the high frequencies to pass), a volume circuit (that cuts the volume) through various FX devices (optional) to the preamp in your amplifier. The preamp boosts the signal and adds various FX circuits. Then it goes to the amplifier which boosts it even more, then it's sent to the speaker where the signal and all the distortions caused by the circuitry, but in a much larger amplitude, vibrates the cone by using that magnetic signal to disturb the permanent magnet field and thus move the voice coil, attached to the cone in and out generating the sound. BTW, everything the circuitry does once the signal leaves the pickup distorts the sound. Even the things that affect the sound that we love like fuzz, tube compression, and so on are technically distortions of the original signal. IMO, Tonewood for an electric guitar is nothing but a marketing ploy to separate you from your hard-earned dollars. That is, unless your pickup is a piezo one. They work on vibration, which is so slight, they require an immediate pre-amp built into the guitar. The signal generated by the piezo is so small, the resistance of the guitar cord would eat it all up before it gets to your amp. Unlike the mag pickups, the piezo works by turning physical vibrations into electricity. Insights, incites, and probably a huge debate by Notes ♫

We do "Whiter Shade Of Pale", and will play it today, sending it 'upstairs'.

It's not actually a pun, but visually it can be. Besides, it's funny.

Golden Lady - Stevie Wonder

Fixin' to Die Blues - Bukka White Triple word score