A thing to remember

Mad Hamish said:

Playing guitar all day is teaching me the same things... What I think is what comes out in how I play, and on top of that, if I want to continue making my bread off my skill as a musician (half the time now, almost getting to full-time), the key is to keep doing things I have never done and never heard. Without that comes complacency and boredom, but put technique together with creativity and the hours just fly there aren't enough on one night. This meditation is starting to affect my whole being. So sculpting does the same? I should take it up. Got ten thumbs but hey if I can conquer six strings I can be the boss of some clay I guess... Anyhow man, I just entered a very peaceful phase and I wish only the same for you and everybody else on here. It's feeling GREAT so I'll ask my little genie to send you some too. Have yourself an AWESOME weekend. Good to meet you, BTW.

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Music as you describe here perfectly is the act of technique allowing freedom when the body holds the streamlined mind. I play as a hobby and trust my hands...perhaps too much....the technical master rarely finds style as easy. You probably heard this many times but across the board it is not what you play but how you play. Playing as slow as your spirit allows is courageous. I feel like my guitar is waiting.....goodbye.

dave1960 said:

I think you should all talk about growing

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I know it seems silly but these ideas are concerned with creating beauty. how one does this, and the mind that makes the master.

burgertime2010 said:

It has been generally accepted that models of enlightenment, are happy and calm and always at peace as are those with Downs syndrome. This politenment idea is impossible. The extremes must be known right? opposites create duality. In rage, our binary peace is extended potentially. I know ugliness and my art is the evidence.

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I understand what you're saying. Light and dark are like mirrors, your potential for one is reflected in your potential for the other. I actually had a 3-day conversation on a different forum about exactly this not too long ago. What it boiled down to in the end for me, personally, was the following:

Within me exist all extremes. I know them all intimately well as do all who were born with my 'condition' I'm a raging bi-polar of the highest order. My capability for love and hate is exactly equal.

As a human living under a very progressive constitution I have the right to express all of these states also providing I do not harm others. But I choose to not take full advantage of that right.

Thing is, this old world is in a helluva fix. And I decided not too long ago that I would like a choice in how I affect it. I am MUCH aware of what a word or two can do to a mind. So I choose to be more careful with them. I choose to not really express everything I feel, but share that part which I think is most useful. I've gotten a lot of love I didn't deserve, and I want to pay my dues.

Not only that I want to admit when I screw up and make right, then move on but never forget.

So whether or not I am capable of extreme rage, that rage has only one place: It is MINE. MY fuel. My power. It's the thing I need at 3am when the job's not done and my mind needs to sharpen up, I tap into it. It now SERVES me.

So yes, I acknowledge that all extremes can and MUST exist inside one mind (...you need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star- Nietszche).

But a human being has full choice and responsibility for how he or she affects the world around them...

Contentment and true happiness I only want the day before I die, hopefully as a very old man. I want to be ALIVE right till the end, thanks...

dave1960 said:

I think you should all talk about growing

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We are talking about growing

[video=youtube;YToSK-CO0S8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YToSK-CO0S8[/video]

And I shall leave you with that Have an inspired jam on that guitar mate. I'll be doing the same thing over here.

The common is contented with finite dreamless gardening, the grower stops growing themselves and has the answers.......He strangely hasn't any questions...this is probably brilliance.

Mad Hamish said:

I understand what you're saying. Light and dark are like mirrors, your potential for one is reflected in your potential for the other. I actually had a 3-day conversation on a different forum about exactly this not too long ago. What it boiled down to in the end for me, personally, was the following: Within me exist all extremes. I know them all intimately well as do all who were born with my 'condition' I'm a raging bi-polar of the highest order. My capability for love and hate is exactly equal. As a human living under a very progressive constitution I have the right to express all of these states also providing I do not harm others. But I choose to not take full advantage of that right. Thing is, this old world is in a helluva fix. And I decided not too long ago that I would like a choice in how I affect it. I am MUCH aware of what a word or two can do to a mind. So I choose to be more careful with them. I choose to not really express everything I feel, but share that part which I think is most useful. I've gotten a lot of love I didn't deserve, and I want to pay my dues. Not only that I want to admit when I screw up and make right, then move on but never forget. So whether or not I am capable of extreme rage, that rage has only one place: It is MINE. MY fuel. My power. It's the thing I need at 3am when the job's not done and my mind needs to sharpen up, I tap into it. It now SERVES me. So yes, I acknowledge that all extremes can and MUST exist inside one mind (...you need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star- Nietszche). But a human being has full choice and responsibility for how he or she affects the world around them... Contentment and true happiness I only want the day before I die, hopefully as a very old man. I want to be ALIVE right till the end, thanks...

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perfect. I recently automatic responses and the process of perspective. The sculpture of conclusions. In, my experience my choices are bad but I repair them. I now see the completion of the perfect choice before I choose.

For a music man feel what the perfect anthem would feel like once finished. The fullfillment you feel first and let sound reflect that.

if u feel like it send over your music.

a couple years ago for awhile actually you would get on here and get attacked anything and everything you would say would be subject to ridicule it only takes a few rude people to ruin an entire community.

i think we've come along way from that idk why people would be so cruel to each other on a pot site maybe what they were growing was dirt

anyways like you said what you give will be returned at some point, but you also have to keep in mind attitude reflects leadership when the more seasoned growers pick on the noobs that probably has the most effect on the community people think thats just the way we treat each other which is wrong thats why i stopped going to shroomery because everyone is a ahole you ask 1 simple question and get 20 people having meltdowns and not 1 constructive answer.


if you want to rage theres places for that ie xbox live ,shroomery ,the club, the public library...

Hold up, I don't want to rage. I want a community that has a brotherhood and diverse thought portfolio. The problems just seem to be morphing into something that will ruin this. This pack mentality, disrespect, and uncreative pandering is never a good sign. It's is harder to learn seemingly but in this thread I want to focus on less tired concepts and becoming a grower in a wider sense.

burgertime2010 said:

if u feel like it send over your music.

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I'm scheduled for recordings in March, got a nice facility booked out for 4 weeks. Right now it's pretty messy lol, only recordings I have are sketches and extended jams of like 30 to 40 minutes, I won't ask anybody to sit through those in good conscience. I've been trying to live right in the moment and grab as many of those moments as I can, listening to tons of Allman Brothers to keep that easy flow going.

It's about time to get some real demo cuts down, though. I'll send some along as soon as it goes past 'garage' quality.

Really excited with it, gotten a whole bunch of my mates to commit to sessions: Alto Sax, Cello, Keys (I'll post pics of this guy's room of toys lol), 2 brilliant percussionists, and I've even got a string quartet that are more than happy to make an appearance, and a whole slew of drummers, bassists and guitarists to work with too.

IT SHALL BE EPIC!

Mad Hamish said:

I'm scheduled for recordings in March, got a nice facility booked out for 4 weeks. Right now it's pretty messy lol, only recordings I have are sketches and extended jams of like 30 to 40 minutes, I won't ask anybody to sit through those in good conscience. I've been trying to live right in the moment and grab as many of those moments as I can, listening to tons of Allman Brothers to keep that easy flow going. It's about time to get some real demo cuts down, though. I'll send some along as soon as it goes past 'garage' quality. Really excited with it, gotten a whole bunch of my mates to commit to sessions: Alto Sax, Cello, Keys (I'll post pics of this guy's room of toys lol), 2 brilliant percussionists, and I've even got a string quartet that are more than happy to make an appearance, and a whole slew of drummers, bassists and guitarists to work with too. IT SHALL BE EPIC!

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Bizzare, I listened to the Allmans greatest right after we spoke yesterday for the first time in years, picked up the guitar and felt really good after. I understand the work in progress....when it gets there lemme know and god speed. Be bold and mighty forces shall come to your aid.

Thank you guys, keep spreading the word, love is the way.

God bless everyone who helps and endures... my prayers are with each and everyone who has the most important uses of our shared sister Mary Jane. Isn't it funny? How life through our experience and knowledge come together as family here? Just like any family, we all have dicks and foolish cousins... some who read this are guilty of it and even some of us get an inkling why you are the way you are. Respect the curative nature, as well as the privacy of it. I've spoken with different peeps in this life, ill never forget the feeling I've had when I realize the gravity of their first hand knowledge... about kids, about medicine and growing trees. A broken clock is right at least twice a day.... but a dick always has his head down. If not.... you better duck! Respect!

burgertime2010 said:

Bizzare, I listened to the Allmans greatest right after we spoke yesterday for the first time in years, picked up the guitar and felt really good after. I understand the work in progress....when it gets there lemme know and god speed. Be bold and mighty forces shall come to your aid.

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Took me a while to get back to this thread, subbed to too many lol... Thanks Brother, the tides are sweeping me up FAST. Got some unexpected alone time, my wife is off on work matters for a few MONTHS. Now it's just me and my head, getting into far-out headspaces man and taking it real SLOOOWWWW... Haven't played this gently in YEARS. Today, Mark Knopfler is my man of the hour. The sound of angels from that man's hands wowowow...

Mad Hamish said:

THAT being said, careful too, sometimes it is incredibly misdirected. I don't know, Nelson Mandela spent 30 years in rpison without getting pissed off. I'd like to be like THAT.

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Well, I think he got pissed off plenty of times. But he had a way to harness his anger and outrage in a way that kept him, his jailers and his country moving to a better place. I'm actually reading his autobiography right now and am totally inspired!

kryptoniteglo said:

Well, I think he got pissed off plenty of times. But he had a way to harness his anger and outrage in a way that kept him, his jailers and his country moving to a better place. I'm actually reading his autobiography right now and am totally inspired!

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Brilliant book. You know how FEW South Africans around have read that? Ask me I know, it's where I am from. Yeah he was rough as a youngster at times lol... But graceful and poised no matter what was going on inside that head.
I've got a lemon tree that came off the one he planted at his house in Paarl a few weeks after his release, the cutting did great from day one I am proud to say. Pretty badass addition to my garden

He turned 95 yesterday... His family's been fighting over his property, proposed burials, etc etc for months already now. It's fucking DISGUSTING. I bet as he lay there in hospital listening to all the well-wishes he was thinking: "No, South Africa. It is YOU who must get well soon"