We are golden We are part of the devil's bargain And we've got to get ourselves Back to the garden ~ Woodstock by Joni Mitchell, most famous version by her friends Crosby, Stills & Nash But of course the original quote We are stardust comes from Carl Sagan
Just watched Keith Richards explaining his five string guitar method. He removes the lower E then re-tunes to open G. He may as well been talking Swahil
I believe 'open G' means if you just strum all the strings without putting fingers on any frets, you get a G chord. I could be wrong, I'm not one of WFs guitar geeks.
Nor me. Someone once said there’s two types of people when it comes to an interest in guitars; guitar players and guitar owners. I very much fall into the latter category. I have three and they look great on my wall.
I've owned a few and played them, but only at the most rudimentary levels. Haven't even owned one for at least a decade, maybe 2.
I played well into my forties and gradually quit. My husband has played all his life and is what you might called accomplished. He just began practicing for an upcoming concert. I have no idea how many guitars we have hanging around the house, much less how many musical instruments in all. There's even an antique accordion that no one has ever played; my husband got it because it looks kinda cool.
I learned to play bass in an orchestral setting in school. Actually got pretty good on trombone and tuba. Played with the bass voil but never got really good at it. Got a bass guitar and got pretty OK with it, but not having anyone to play with it fell by the wayside. I looked up the serial#, went on Ebay and see I can maybe get $2k for it. (Fender Precision.) Maybe. I would still have the Yamaha acoustic six string to plink around on.
And you're almost there anyway with standard tuning. A G chord is G, B, D, so that's half the strings right off the bat. It's not my thing.
Ivan the Terrible first introduced jesters to the Russian court. It's thought he was trying to imitate Henry VIII.
Igor Sikorsky was the first to fly in Russia, and built the first four engined aircraft. After the Russian revolution he emigrated to the U.S. where near White Plains New York he created the first successful helicopter, flying it for the first time in 1936. By that time he had built a successful company that specialized in seaplanes.
Monty Norman wrote the original Bond theme. John Barry was then asked to re-arrange it, but went on to claim he wrote it. Norman successfully sued Barry on two occasions, claiming he merely composed his own arrangement of his original theme.
Lennie Peters, one half of the 70s pop duo Peters and Lee, was blinded in one eye following a car accident at the age of five. When he was sixteen, a thrown brick blinded him in the other eye. That’s some shit luck right there!
Dunno, but know the difference between a fiddle and a violin. It's no big deal if you spill a little beer on a fiddle.
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Just saved a corvid’s life. I was sat in the van in one of our parks and kept hearing this flapping noise. I eventually traced the noise to a nearby wooden fence where a crow / raven had somehow got its head wedged between the top slats. Poor thing was tiring and didn’t put up much of a fight as I tried to free it. I had to support its body with one hand and push its head up from below, using its beak. There was some blood on the fence near its head but it flew away okay once I’d got it free, albeit slightly disoriented.
Crow on the right, Raven on the left. Also crows flock. Ravens are more solitary, though they are often seen in pairs.
