If there's one thing that's prolonged and deeply reliable about my musicianship, about my guitar playing,
it's my pick, the same pick I've been playing with since 1970.
Both Jimi Hendrix and Ritchie Blackmore talked about the pick they used in magazines,
so I wanted to get the same ones.
When I saw Jimi it surprised me how much he finger-picked, a pick appearing for single note leads.
He explained that classical guitarists grew a point on their thumbnail to use for quick, single note leads,
but using round-wound steel strings would chew that up in five minutes,
so he kept a pick in his hand or between his fingers as a fingernail substitute, and it works that way for me.
Fender Heavy Small, and I still have to order them by the gross, music stores not carrying them.
A company made them for both Fender, white, and Gibson, black,
so it was nice to keep both, depending on the stage colour, in case I dropped one.
Actually, I never dropped one. If I lost one it's because it flipped out of my fingers and flew away.
Somewhere Over The Rainbow is one of my favorite songs, musical comfort food.
If I'm playing guitar, not doing a Judy Garland impression,
I get into Jimi's "Angel" chords, where the angel flies away,
for the big climb to the words, "that's where you'll find me", so nice.
When the Jefferson Starship put their first album out, after being Jefferson Airplane,
they had an older musician of African descent in the band as a violinist,
and featured and instrumental of him playing Over The Rainbow, very nice.
I recommend that if you're looking for another version.
That had to be the early eighties, sorry for not remembering more.
I can visualize him, having a big smile.
Papa John Creach? I'm not sure.
Somewhere, online is calling, where are you,
there's an offline awaiting, why oh what to do?
When font turns into lemon drops and haters start to like it all,
that's when I'll call,
when boo-birds start to drop on you with links that freeze up on us two,
that's when I'll call tech-talk.
Somewhere a generator's working, overtime just for this,
and the domain we are using can never substitute for a kiss.