Jimi Hendrix vs. Stevie Ray Vaughan

[John Watt]

white knight! You're right, but I'm a selfish person. I want to live my own life,
and I'm moving on all the time. I don't leave evidence behind, preferring to be influential.
Where I'm frustrated, at our age, is still having the fingers, maybe in better shape now.
I've always worked on keeping them in shape, using jazz and classical advice.
So I like to play, and feel like I can get into it everywhere I go, but, it's just not me onstage.

And for someone who was so into Jimi Hendrix, I never wanted to record myself.
That's right, I've never even tried to do that, and I've never played a Jimi song in a band.
So I'd qualify as an entrant in a band contest, something that might take off for me.
Believe me, when I get a new video backdrop built, finish refinishing my guitar, and get an original song down,
what I'm working on with a small acoustic,
I'll be here with bells on, getting a video together.

After a recent mayoral debate, the head of our local cable company said to call him when I'm onstage next.
That's a nice invite to have. Sorry. I gotta get into blatant self-promotion.

You got me feeling ambitious enough to type my domain name.
www.johnwatt.ca
Click at your own peril! It still freaks me out how this all works.

[White Knight]

Great page indeed John; I only wish I'd been living in your town so I could have cast my vote for you!
Please be sure and let us know when you'll be launching your music/video.
Thanks so much for sharing!
Peace Out--wk

[teddy]

Great link John. I will give it the time it deserves

teddy

[John Watt]

Okay.... I did type my address, as a link, but really, I'm not suggesting it for your attention.
It's been like that since last September.
The story about tripping around with an Inuit elder in Goose Bay Labrador,
part of the Jimi Hendrix page, is my favorite.

I've got to get online in my new residence and keep building.

[teddy]

My only criticism of your site is that for people like me the blue on blue makes it hard to read. Apart from that I am working my way through it. Very interesting

teddy

[John Watt]

Yes, I'm bad, but bad on purpose, just having fun with it for myself.
This was also a purposeful distraction for those looking to harm me,
nothing really financial or political being portrayed.
I've been a sign-painter on and off, and a computer screen is like a little illuminated sign.
Only instead of having to use stencils, masking and laquer, and making my own letters and words,
I can change colours without a spray gun and overlay paragraphs if I want, experimenting with colour.

The one councillor everyone thought was going to be the next mayor, isn't.
I got the biggest laugh of the evening when I described his street, and events,
and said "you've got one of the biggest grow-ops in Welland across from your house".
He didn't get to be mayor, and I wasn't going for a laugh.
There's a deep background to that story too.

Because of then-constant criminal harrassment and intimidation,
the province moved me into a subsidized and secure apartment,
so even behind the scenes, everything worked out for me.

Now I'll be playing guitar and singing. And I'm back here!

[John Watt]

Jimi! Jimi! Was that you! Was that a phased and flanged contrail passing me by,
flying high across this bright blue winter sky?
What other pale shape passing far overhead just keeps going, never having to stop,
and turning and stopping to watch, see it keep going, not coming down,
until it disappears into space far over the horizon.

I thought it was you, Jimi. No other guitarist has occupied your space.

[Notokens]

Even SRV said that Hendrix is god! :-)