Re: Would love your input, stories, suggestions

[Christopher Darrow <thedarrow@gmail.com>]

> I just wanted to play music - not fly the Starship Enterprise!

That’s my favorite sentence this year. As is this:

>> But so much potential is overwhelming my monkey brain.

It so absolutely describes the locked state I’ve been in for years now. And yet, the first thing I think when I read that 1st sentence is, “I want to see his starship!”

This is really at the heart of it though: As good as the simplicity and immediacy of acoustic (or other simple modes) of music making is for the soul, you  (the general “you”… “I” really) reach a limit. What you hear in your head can be so vast and intricate and diverse, and because you know the tools available to us now can get there, it is so, so alluring to try. 

—Christopher

On Oct 6, 2016, at 8:19 AM, Kevin Cheli-Colando <billowhead@gmail.com> wrote:

I just wanted to play music - not fly the Starship Enterprise!

Its really funny you say that because I had started to refer to my rig as a six string spaceship.  I've got a whole host of controllers and pedals and pads going into the laptop and what not and its incredible what it can do.  But I find it can so easily kill the desire to play by all the maintenance and troubleshooting that goes into it.  So much so I usually wind up playing an acoustic 12 string instead.

But so much potential is overwhelming my monkey brain.

Kevin

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Till now you seriously considered yourself to be the body and to have a
form. That is the primal ignorance which is the root cause of all trouble.

- Ramana Maharshi (1879-1950)