re: #209 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

EGO ALERT!

I have a good singing voice. It was the talent that I was blessed with. I have sung in front of 10,000 people (national anthem, they didn’t come to hear me). I have a very good sense of rhythm and can sing many styles.

So, I’m going to become James Taylor, right?

WRONG! I know G, Em, E, D, C, Cm7, D7, A, Am, Am7, G7 enough to get me ALMOST though about five songs.

Then the assholes throw in bar chords and stuff and I sit there stupid. And don’t get me started with strumming/picking patterns. I can grab an F bar chord, but everybody has to wait for a few minutes.

I’ve been trying for years.

Because of this, I have a, well, almost un-Christian admiration (read, white hot hate of a million burning suns) for people who are instrumentally gifted.

You bastards!

I hear you dude, the ability to play dozens of chords in half a dozen positions each and to finger pick with all 6 5 fingers is my curse.