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Bob Dylan is an incredible story-teller and lyricist.  Neil Young is a fantastic guitar player and also an amazing producer. 

I remember going to a CNSY concert relatively recently.  I wasn't planning to go because it was CSN, but then they announced that Neil Young would be there too, so I bought tickets.  The tickets were behind the stage, but close.  It was a sunken stage - so we could see the whole thing from there.  Neil Young took a break during an acoustic set by CSN where they covered their hits together.  Then they took a break while Neil Young did a set from his early solo work and his work with Iron Horse. 

Let me just say that Neil Young was amazing.  Duck Dunn was playing bass, and during a very, very long instrumental in "Down By The River", first David Crosby dropped out and put down his guitar.  He then dragged a bar stool from the acoustic set over and took a seat with his back to the audience to get the best seat in the house to the Neil Young show.  Then Graham Nash fell back to just playing root chords without much in the line of fills and runs.  Then Stephen Stills put down his guitar - but he wasn't dropping out like I thought.  He had put down his acoustic and had a roady bring him his Gibson Flying V and MAN did he light into that song!  You could tell that Young and Stills have been playing off each other for 40 years, all the way back to Buffalo Springfield.  Young, Stills, and the absolutely incomparable Duck Dunn on bass kept that groove going for 1/2 hour or more with the audience (excepting my wife) transfixed.  The incredible part was that it was approaching midnight.  The concert had started at 7:00P and there had been someone on stage playing the entire five hours to that point.  They had spelled each other, but there was just so much talent on that stage, and so many groups to perform, solo work from all four, Buffalo Springfield, Yardbirds, CSN, CSNY, Iron Horse, and other groups I've forgotten where one or more of these guys were driving forces.  Absolutely incredible. 

- Zurf

Bass note, down, down, up, alternate bass note, down, down, up

Or bass note, down, alternate bass note, down, bass note, down, alternate bass note, down, ad infinitum.  Throw a few ups in there for effect.

Or bass note, down, up, altnerate bass note, down, bass note, down, up, alternate bass note, down

Boom-chicka-boom

- Zurf

Best of luck to you Headcase.  It seems like you are a case study for difficult right vs. right decisions.  Do as you think you need, and if you are so inclined - remember to pray. 

Old Doll - you are a font of information.  I wish I knew where to get some reliable Kava Kava.  It used to be easily found in the U.S., but then the FDA found that if you feed laboratory mice nothing but KavaKava that it has an effect on their livers.  Never mind that it has been in use in raw form by South Pacific cultures since pre-history and there's no greater occurance of liver problems there.   Kava kava and a couple aspirin to thin the blood did more for me than any prescriptions drugs at relieving stress induced migraines.   Plus that combination left me in control and able to function, unlike the prescription medications.  If you know of a reliable internet source available to Americans for Kava kava, would you be kind enough to e-mail it to me.  I have found sources, but am leary of buying medications (herbal or otherwise) from the internet.  But if you told me a given source was reliable, I'd believe you.  Even though I only know you from the internet, I suspect that you are not a shill for the evil internet bogus medicine cartel. 

- Zurf

I've got a buddy with the same problem.  He is physiologically limited.  There are a few things he could do, but his limit is reached at a much lower volume than other people.  The easiest solution (for him anyway) is a microphone.  What you can't do with your diaphragm, do with amps!

- Zurf

I have played that very model and it is SWEET!!  It's on my short list for when I finally have a little money to spend.  Congratulations on what I am sure will be a wonderful guitar for you.

- Zurf

Paul Simon wrote a lot of songs performed by others as well.  As did Willie Nelson, Barry Manilow (who also wrote a lot of advertising jingles to pay the bills), and a lot of other artists.  With few exceptions, they aren't born famous.  They've got to pay their dues, and that includes selling songs. 

- Zurf

It started with a conversation between Russell and I about barre chords.  Russell gave me some very good advice on how to play a "B" chord, but because of previous injuries to left hand, some of the fingers don't flex the way they were designed to do.  So, rather than admit to my own failure, I took the much cheaper and easier route of accusing anyone who can readily play a "B" chord to be a mutant.  Russell went on to explain the many uses of the "B" chord barre configuration and rubbed it in real good that he was a far better guitar player than I am (no question about that).  Upon describing all these wonderful things that he could do (not bragging, mind you, he was trying to give me incentive to learn), he declared Long Live The Mutants!

It is, I presumed, a spin-off phrase from the medieval "The King is dead.  Long live the King." sort of phrase. 

- Zurf

Every song I play is better than the original.  Can you believe all those notes those guys use?  It's like a barrage.  Much better to do with simple strumming patterns a monkey could do, don't you think?

Remember Kris Kristofferson's song: "Let's All Get Together And Steal Each Others Songs". 

- Zurf

To my understanding, there are a few differences between local police and local sherriff.  First, the police work for the jurisdiction.  A town police officer reports to the Chief of Police, and the Chief of Police reports to the mayor (or whatever leader).  Some jurisdictions may have a layer between Chief and Mayor called a Superintendent or something like that.  The point is, they are 'beaurocrats' in that their careers are not tied to the political careers of the persons in office.  You can have three different mayors and would still have mostly the same police officers.  Police work for municipal governments. 

Sherriffs on the other hand report to a judge.  They are the enforcement arm of a judge.  They transport prisoners, collect prisoners, issue warrants, maintain jails, etc.  Sherriffs deliver warrants and other legal papers a judge wants delivered.  They collect people a judge wants to see.  They do have police power as well in many jurisdictions, but they are not "police" in that their primary responsibility is to enforce the dictates of the local judiciary.  Deputies work for sherriffs.  Sherriffs work for judges. 

- Zurf

Professional Video Game Player.

This is a job title that defies description.  Then again, there are professional fishermen.  Figure that out. 

The parents have got their priorities skewed.  No question about that.  And no, despite the assertion in the article, the facts do not make the statement any less ridiculous. 

- Zurf

I wasn't aware of that limitation.  Sorry for mentioning something many of you can't access. 

- Zurf

My Pap-pap had two sayings that don't seem to mesh very well.  They are both good advice, but the trick is to know when to apply which.

1. If it won't go, don't force it.
2. If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer.

I generally opt for the second. 

- Zurf