StupidDeluxe

I’ve become more and more disheartened with my music and playing generally. Playing guitar has been pretty much my life for well, more than half of my life now but i still get to thinking that even against my better judgement, music is something you’re either born with or will never really ‘get’. I don’t mean that you can’t learn an instrument and make a good fist of becoming a great player, i just mean, to really get in there to that special Hendrix, Miles Davis, Django Reindhart place, you’ve either got it or you don’t.

I go through different spells of practicing and then not really practicing, have done from the beginning, when i started playing, but i always hear and watch people play and think to myself ‘what is that, that they seem to have and i don’t?’

I’m almost convinced that it’s not just about practice, i know and have known plenty of people that never really practiced but just have that special ingredient in their playing.

Obviously if you repeat that certain lick or scale or phrase over and over then you can get it really good and fluent but that’s not really it, because once you can play that killer lick, it’s really about where and how you put it, in a musical context. You can’t just go playing it willy nilly, it’d sound shit. That for me is where the argument ends as far as practice goes because your ears are more important to hearing what’s going on around you and being able to play the right notes than just having practiced playing really fast.

You can of course, train your ear, but i have to wonder if a certain amount of that is just pissing in the wind because, honestly, how much ‘ear training’ did a 20 something Jimi Hendrix get to do before the guitar became some extension of his body, totally in tune with his thoughts and ideas where he didn’t really have to think separately about what he would sing and what he was playing on the guitar, it was just one and the same?

The journey is the thing for me, so i’m not giving up playing, but i am almost sure that being at one with an instrument, and i mean any instrument, i truly believe Hendrix would have been as gifted had he been a sax player, is something you are born with, you can learn to imitate the illusion of it, as many do, but you’ll never really be ‘hearing Jimi’ so to speak.

Over and out

Well, lots seems to happen, all the time, relentlessly. and yet, i can never seem to get it down here in the form of a blog despite different texts floating around my head constantly from one day to the next. I am aware that i’m not the most eloquent writer and that most probably aren’t in the slightest bit interested in what i have to say but, hey, that’s what the internet is for really in my opinion, lots of people with nothing interesting to say, saying it anyway and a fair amount of people with something very interesting to say, saying it as well, with the other people trawling through it all and deciding what they want to read. (this post for example, started out in thought at least, as the latter, but i fear less than a paragraph in, has become the former! sorry.)

Anyway, to the meat.

Arsenal, it would seem, is the most blogged about team in the universe (i’m well aware that i’m talking ‘my universe’ as i have no interest in or knowledge of other teams and their blogs). It seems to me though that too many people involved with the club from a support level ie; ST holders, Fan sites and various blogs and bloggers have become overly pompous and deserving of a voice within the club because they pay money for their various levels of supposed support or they’ve ‘been a lifelong supporter’. Such phrases as ‘this is our club’ and ‘we pay the highest prices and deserve the best players’ etc are commonplace in blog posts all over the place. I for one have grown tired of it for the simple reason that, the world doesn’t work like that. Would you go to a film at the cinema and demand that as you’ve paid your entry fee, Tom Cruise be the lead actor or you’ll call for the directors head? I realise this is a stretched analogy but i wanted to go to extreme a little bit.

The point is really that, in this horrible football world where Torres can be a liverpool player half a season then happily pledge his devotion to chelski for the other half, i would prefer Arsenal not to follow suit just so you can brag to your Man U mate that we won the league and they didn’t, all to easy to forget that some of these players have been at the club a fair few years now and whilst they are well paid, have stayed and not run for the nearest trophy winning team.Outrageous suggestions like, buying Adebayor back??? Do me a favour, this guy left for money, because he doesn’t love our club. I don’t care how good or bad a player is, if they don’t want to be here then i don’t want them here, simple as that. You can pay any mercenary to wear the colours and do a job but, sure as shit the next better offer he gets, he’ll be off so lets forget all that bullshit talk of buying this player or that player because he’s so amazing in the Real Madrid team since he arrived there less than a year ago.

What has been built at our football club over that last few years, is a group of players (with a couple of exceptions) that love Arsenal, want to play for Arsenal and are good enough to play for Arsenal. Additions are necessary obviously, wholesale changes of 6-7 players are idiotic and should be treated as such, as are suggestions that this manager is not the man for the job any more. If you want a new manager every 2 seasons as well as clear-outs every time a player doesn’t play how you in your years of wisdom and football knowledge think he should then i suggest it’s time that Arsenal football club do need to make a new signing, support that actually supports. That’s right fucknuts, you’re transfer listed, you’re no longer required by this club, don’t let the turnstile hit you on the way out.

Just so you know, there are 3 players in the arsenal squad who have been called for international duty in the french team.

There are also 3 players who’ve been called up for the England squads.

That is all

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