"topcat" <hopin@live.com> wrote
Hey D,  I live someplace so cold that even the animals  leave in the
winter; Montana.  so I doubt you're in the neighborhood, but man I
would love to hear the jams our group could make.  I can hear it now,
"i got the low-down dirty hep-c blues"!  but still, i'd love it if you
guys were close. I used to play the bar scene back in my 20's and
early 30's before I 'cut my hair and got a real job".  I've always
kept an axe handy.  After my divorce about 5 years ago I really got
back into it.  I built a sound studio over my garage and used to crank
up Santana and jam along.  I was getting together with some guys with
the idea of performing again when I got sick.  I had just purchased a
new mic, and recording equipment, 2 new guitars and a amp and a really
great "hi-end" stereo. Since then, I can't handle any kind of
emotional intensity and just stopped listening and playing.  for some
reason, the music really aggravates my sypmtoms, but not always, it's
so freekin weird you know?  the mood swings just piss me off.  But
I've made a decision that WHEN I torch this freakin dragon and stab
him in the heart, I'm taking a road trip around the country and
meeting some of you guys and buying you dinner.  If you get a chance
to record yourself send me a sound clip!
take care Dwight
tc;  by the way you guys, my name is Joe, think after a year and all
I've gone thru with you guys, you've earned my trust.  so, from now
on, TC is Joe

Hey Joe (where ya gonna go... with that gun in you HAND!!?  da_da da_da
dah!)

You were talking about the weird energy trying to play and record while on
tx.  Ha! reminds me of when I was trying to do exactly the same thing.   I
just dropped it all finally when I realized all the patch cords had won, had
beaten me to an emotional pulp.  A nest of vipers, from the guitar, to the
pedals, to the power supplies, to the amp, to the mixer, don't forget the
power bar, then to the computer... argghhh!  It looked like a tangle of
spagehetti snakes... I just wanted to get it all together, and on the times
that I did, I was too worn out to tune up...

get it done, Joe

cactus jammies

Joe, I started playing more acoustic while on tx and I still am. Kind of
shift in my music preference while on tx. The acoustic seemed to calm me
down. I'm doing some rhythm and vocals now, something I never would have
done before. My song list covers everything from The Band, Dylan, Jimmy
Buffet, Eagles, Tom Waits, Glen Campbell, CCR, Beatles, John Prine,
Springsteen, Bob Seeger, a little Santana, as well as a few more that
escape me at this time. If someone had told me I would be getting up in
front of coffee houses, parties, large groups of good guitar pickers and
playing "and" singing when I started that last round of tx, I would have
thought they were crazy. I've got a full set up of recording equipment,
haven't learned how to use all of it, but I've got it. The music helps
keep me a little sane or insane in a different direction. :) I'm set up
to do sound clips, just not brave enough to listen to my self yet. I
think I'm on 5 or 6 cd's now and have to skip my songs. :)

I do have some music inspired by Bob Dylan's "Tangled Up In Blues" and
"Stuck inside of Mobile with those hep-c blues again". I'll see if I can
look them up.

Dwight