I play guitar. Not very well, but I do play. I started in 2001, and was always sort of an off-and-on player, picking it up now and then. After breaking up with Megan in 2006, I had more free time so I started playing guitar more. Shortly thereafter, I discovered Joe Satriani. Right away I knew I loved the guy, and I quickly obtained all of his music. I started playing guitar more and more.
I bought an accoustic and learned some kind of sing-alongy sort of music over the summer, because that kind of stuff can be fun, and I’d always wanted to learn to play the eels. Twoards the end of the summer, though, I got back into the rock / metal genre. I listened to Joe religiously and started trying (very poorly) to play some of his stuff. I rediscovered Megadeth, particulary the older albums when Mary Friedman was playing for them, and realized that this guy knew his stuff. At first I wasn’t so hot on his solo albums, and I’d forgotten about them until I picked them up again this week.
It strikes me how very different the two arists are. I’m not sure if I feel like I sound more like Satriani because I listened to him first and he’s had more time to influence my playing style, or simply because there’s something about me the makes me more like Satriani than Friedman.
In any case, I was just listening to ‘Music For Speeding’, a Marty Friedman album. He’s good. I really recommend it. If you can handle it. You know. If you’re not metal, then forget it. I’d like to incorporate more of his style into my playing. I decided the other day that the music produced in the future will be amazing compared to our music today, because the artists of the future will have had more sources from which to draw inspiration.
There’s some weird bug affecting the way my site is displayed in firefox. For some reason, the background image occaisionally gets ‘corrupted’ and gains a little speck or line on it. Always in the same location, and this speck is still there when you do a ‘view image’, so i know it’s got nothing to do with CSS. The weird thing is, if you right click on the image and do a ’save as’, it is stored correctly on the local machine. If you do a’ copy image’, though, the defect is copied. That means there’s probably an error somewhere in the code that transfers and image into a surface buffer for displaying. Huh.
Yet again, I miss Harvey Mudd College. I’m still in a good mood, though.