If you play guitar, it's all in the tone. You could be the slickest shredder on earth but a less gifted technician with the right tone Will blow everyone away

If music doesnt touch you, you should serk out different music

I was thinking of doing a series of reactions to "Painting tip" videos..but it's a cheap shot really. Having made a few demo videos for the trade, it is a lot of work to present a technique with no fluff. And so easy to find fault. So here's a compromise. My insightful takeaway from this video. Don't fall downstairs with a full tin of #paint. Such a waste of money. 20€ worth in the can, 100€ worth on the wall

It's humbling to know people Who are Kinder than you are.

Watched Trainspotting for the first time. Better late than never. Those tenement blocks could have done with a good coat of paint.

Not quite the Green Green grass of home, but could probably still prepare It for a Game of croquet .

If you like Pink Floyd and wonder what they must have been like at their creative peak, check out Steven Wilson. He appears to leave his ego outside the studio door, and by pairing the best musicians for the job to each round of new songs, he still has years left in his creative tank. eg could David Gilmour have played the final solo on this track? Play it maybe, but jam this first take and nail it to the point it is unedited? Nope. Inviting Guthrie Govan to participate on an album or two is one simple example of the genius touch packaged up in many SW songs! Back to painting.

Art in its many forms is the only thing humans create. Everything else we extract, repurpose, exploit. If you can keep it together while this astonishing 10 minute work of art unfolds you aren't paying attention. Don't ever let go, try to let go.

Listening to bbc radio for first time in years. People still listen and act on this nonsense? The presenters are like pointless earthmovers, but instead of earth they are moving words from A to B and back again.

My experience striking a balance between pushing yourself to learn whilst not taking on new projects that you get in trouble unnecessarily. More video podcasts here

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Long shot to test the reach of Nostr! anybody have alternative medicine contacts in #Staffordshire UK?

After going to a concert in Barcelona last week, I read through hundreds of comments about the musician Steven Wilson and this is my conclusion. Whether you are 15 or 95, think Billie Eilish or Billie Holliday are the nutz, get the best headphones or speaker system you can lay your hands on, crank it up and listen to Regret #9. If you don't get goosepimples or dont feel a million bucks by the end, invigorated at the quality of human endeavour crammed into this 10 minutes... This song is where Pink Floyd meet Led Zep and Steven Wilson comes along and eats them for breakfast. It is not only live and off the scale intense and exciting, but the finale is not even featuring the guitarist who played on the original version of this track - Guthrie Govan, who a lot of musicians say is among the most accomplished guitarists playing today. And almost nobody in comments about this track even mentions the insane keyboards that precede the guitar finale. The intensity and passion make the greats sound like dull organ grinders. Everyone has their guitar great or best keyboard player, but consider the context of their wizardry. ie who of the guitar greats ever had a backing band and a soundtrack to match this track? I'd say none. Not Pink Floyd, not Led Zep, nor Gary Moore, not Eddie van Halen, whoever. And the guitar great band players who might have been able to match the intensity and skill of the finale, would have handed their music over to record producers, engineers and technicians to make sense of their craft. This track is the work of Steven Wilson, one musician who surrounded himself on stage with some of the most accomplished musicians working today, gave them a vision and from the front directed and guided them to outshine the track he originally composed, mixed and engineered. Moby was great for doing it all himself, Prince... I'm sure you can add to the list, but to me this is the best 10 minutes of music I have ever heard released by and performed by a "single" artist. Hopefully I can get back to painting soon, because that concert opened a space in my head that wasn't open before. All part of the journey, I guess! I feel better already for getting this off my chest :)