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cozmik_cowboy

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Madison Ave. wisdom
« on: June 29, 2021, 09:12:43 PM »
From a C.F. Martin & Co. ad:


"Your left hand is what you know; your right hand is who you are."


Peter (who, by that standard, is no one & knows less than Jon Snow)
"Is not Hypnocracy no other than the aspiration to discover the meaning of Hypnocracy?  Have you heard the one about the yellow dog yet?"
St. Dilbert

"If I could explain it in prose, i wouldn't have had to write the song."
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Re: Madison Ave. wisdom
« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2021, 03:51:06 AM »
 ;D

~Gregory (who misses the old C.F. Martin III "hand-playing-a-guitar" ads..., and completely understood them...)

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Re: Madison Ave. wisdom
« Reply #2 on: June 30, 2021, 10:13:01 AM »
From a C.F. Martin & Co. ad: "Your left hand is what you know; your right hand is who you are."

Unless you’re Jimi Hendrix.

Bill, tgo

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Re: Madison Ave. wisdom
« Reply #3 on: June 30, 2021, 10:55:25 AM »
From a C.F. Martin & Co. ad: "Your left hand is what you know; your right hand is who you are."

Unless you’re Jimi Hendrix.

Bill, tgo

I dunno; I watched Jimi Hendrix Electric Church, a movie about his performance July 4, 1970 at the Atlanta International Pop Festival, and I was amazed by how little his picking hand actually did - I mean, a lot of the notes, quite possibly a majority, were hammer-ons, pull-offs, and slides.  So maybe for him CFM's left-right division still holds - or maybe his right was both.

Peter
"Is not Hypnocracy no other than the aspiration to discover the meaning of Hypnocracy?  Have you heard the one about the yellow dog yet?"
St. Dilbert

"If I could explain it in prose, i wouldn't have had to write the song."
Robt. Hunter

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Re: Madison Ave. wisdom
« Reply #4 on: July 01, 2021, 10:05:02 AM »
Nothing like a 100 watt Marshall amp on '11' for dynamics.

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Re: Madison Ave. wisdom
« Reply #5 on: July 01, 2021, 11:07:47 AM »
Nothing like a 100 watt Marshall amp on '11' for dynamics.

Fortunately, Alembic & the Grateful Dead invented modern sound reinforcement in the '70s, so that kind of foolishness is no longer necessary.

Peter (who, as a soundman, urges everyone to get a 10-20w amp, and set it blowing across the stage; don't worry, I have mics - I'll make sure they hear you)
"Is not Hypnocracy no other than the aspiration to discover the meaning of Hypnocracy?  Have you heard the one about the yellow dog yet?"
St. Dilbert

"If I could explain it in prose, i wouldn't have had to write the song."
Robt. Hunter

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Re: Madison Ave. wisdom
« Reply #6 on: July 01, 2021, 07:10:07 PM »
i never let the right hand know what the left hand's doing.  it's usually better that way.
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