(Serious question here) Bubba, have you posted some/any of your songs in the song forum (or anywhere else for that matter)? 

(Serious answer)

No, sorry.  I would like to do so, but they've been collaborations that left me in a position where I wasn't free to do so without agreement from the other musician(s). 

If/When I get some time (not in the near future), I have several songs (possibly a full length CD) bouncing around in my head that I'd love to record and post.  It's going to be a long time before that happens due to my travel schedule, family stuff, etc.

I think you should forego the music for now and write us a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy type book instead Bubba!

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I think you should forego the music for now and write us a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy type book instead Bubba!

Seriously?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
I mean...SERIOUSLY BUBBA!!!! (you should write)

I suffer from Chronic Laziness.  Yeah, I've got something I'm working on.  Actually, no, I don't.  I mean, I do, but I'm not actually "Working" on it.  It's partially written and the rest is echoing around in my subconscious trying to get me to let it out.  I'm actually considering splitting it up into multiple ebooks rather than making it a huge novel.

I know, I know.  Either do it and post it or don't and shut up about it.  I know.  I'll see what my subconscious and I can work out.

I think there is Janet.
I'm sure I saw one in Animal House...he was on the
stairs playing and John Belushi tuned his guitar for him.

ubiquitousbubbaI'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that some of the differences we have in our musical tastes may stem from philosophical differences. ...

 
Thank you very much.
 
I've never thought that one style is better than the other or that Eric Clapton is not good, or that the Coffee House Band stinks ... and will never say that anything I have ever heard by anyone here on this board ... is not good ... in one way or another.
 
That said, there is a tendency for folks to think that a lot of what I say is not correct ... and as you state in your post, I was born in Portugal (1950), went to Brazil in 1959, and came to America in 1965 ... and been here since.
 
In essence, I am a man with "no country".
 
The upside/downside of this is that there are many artistic traditions that are culturally tied, and this is a very hard thing to see/catch/learn about and from ... you have to take your rock knowledge and go live in another country for a few years to learn to let go off that stubborness that what you know is right and the rest is not.
 
A lot of my "ideas" are based, on learning to "let go" ... what you "know" ... and the hope is that you can find/formulate something else with the things that you are seeing and experiencing ... but too many folks appear married/stuck to the comfort of an amp, or a group they know ... not necessarily the ability they have, or could have.
 
I am -- as you can tell -- a deep disciple of the Peter Brook, Julian Beck, Krautrock, Werner Herzog ... free form schools of the arts ... because their results are ... unbelievable ... and trying to mention/discuss them here, sometimes is sad ... really sad ... because it means you would have to go read something, listen to something, and find out ... wow ... that is different ... and from my experience, even with actors ... this is the very first fear ... of death!
 
You learn or just live.
 
THERE IS NO RIGHT OR WRONG. There is just life! But it is really easy to defend ... "what you know" ... when in essence I never defend what I KNOW, because tomorrow it will be different!
 
So yeah ... I'm a nerd about the arts ... but it's really difficult to explain to folks that are not interested to listen/hear, that I have taken people that "saw things" and got them to interpret that on paper ... with art AND music!
 
The only thing there is in the end, you will say it over and over when you try it and finally over come whatever it is ... you always say ... I could have done that before ... !!! ... but didn't do it ... and that is the difference between learning and not learning ... the "lag" between the "seeing" and the "doing" ...
 
For folks that do not thing that this "lag" can not be improved, I can easily say, from experience ... they are incorrect. Not wrong. Just incorrect, and a few exercises and fun will fix that! And I've shared many of these before!

Hi,

The other side of the coin is this serious/fun thing.

Bapu and Mooch are not always fun, and they hide their seriousness as well as anyone here. And many hide their fun just as much.

All in all ... seriousness is over-rated, just as much as the unbearable lightness of being ... but then, it's like saying that we don't care what happens to space! ... we do ... we love him as much as anyone else here ... and the seriousness/fun side has to come alive to bring us all up ...

It's not about "serious" or not "serious" in my book ... !!! it's about "being" ... and "caring" ... and simply ... sharing!

Bubba...your subconscious and I need to have a talk.  

Cause the world would be a better place if we could all read your writing.  

Too kind!

I won't tell my subconsciousness, though.  It has a tendancy to jump the fence, take out the guards, liberate a shuttle, and flee for the border with only a little encouragement.

I'll talk to my mental Warden and see if we can't negotiate moving it from Solitary into a secured lab.  Usually, that type of thing is followed by a horrific accident, the destruction of the facility, and an embarassing scene at Walmart.