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Location: south east Michigan | The topic title is the format.
I wish I could play "Won't Get Fooled Again" like Pete Townshend.
In the "Classic Albums" DVD series there is a disc about "Who's Next". It has Pete in his studio playing WGFA as an acoustic solo. It looks deceptively easy. It shows just enough of the fingering to make a stab at it. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Wish I could play ____ like ____
Golf - Tiger Woods
Poker - Those guys on TV
Dead - My wife
P.I. - Moody
Dress up - I used to
OK, I'm gonna catch hell for this one, but I just can't resist. You make it TOOOO easy:
With children - Michael Jackson |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | I wish I could play guitar like I used to.
I never aspired to play like anyone else, although I did aspire to play certain songs or riffs by other people, but never "like" anyone else. I'm not sure why. I bought my first Viper mainly because I tried it out through a Rockman Headphone amp and realized with the harmonics on a Viper it was easy to make that signature Boston sound. I bet others guitars could too, but the Viper just felt right, and it was made in my home state.
I wish I could ride my motorcycle like I used to.
I think this just has to do with age. It never was a daredevel thing, but more things that I would barely pay attention to when I was younger rattle me now. The reaction time is mostly still there, just takes longer to shake it off. No more young and stupid... uh.. err fearless... (Did I say stupid out loud?) |
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Location: USA | well i Have to honestly say i never wanted to be anyone but me and making me the best me possible :)
When I started out playing i could emulate just about anyone out there. I started growing tired of that and found myself getting bored and just about putting the guitar down. One day I decided enough emulation, I put down the electric guitar picked up the acoustic and it has been beautiful ever since. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | I wish I could be as happy as Styll |
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Location: NJ | I wish I could teach my fingers to play all the music that is in my head. |
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Location: NC | I wish I could play good guitar! I after almost 10 months from the begining can do a few things and pieces but it still comes a challenge. I wish I could wake up and be possessed like Santanna and playing like a bitch in heat! Sorry for the experlative wording but you guys know what I mean. :D |
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| I'll be happy when I can play "The Clap" Like Steve Howe.
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Location: SoCal | Like Al, I wish I could play the music I hear in my head. But I also wish that I had heard more music in my head. Seems like there are so many people out there who just have all this music bursting out of them, and I don't.
But I've also learned that I wish I had spent more time learning practicing guitar when I was younger (30 years ago). Because in visiting with people who I consider to be really good, creative players, I've learned that what I consider to be massive amounts of musical ability and creativity, they consider to be just one helluvalotta practice. And now as I approach my adult years (50 and beyond), I realize that they are right.
But it's Thanksgiving, and musically, I'm thankful for the fact that I can play guitar like I do, that people enjoy hearing me play and sing, that I've inspired my kids to pick up guitar, bass and piano, that my wife is not only tolerant of my GAS, but encourages it, that I've made not just friends, but some very good friends here (and even if this page were to shut down, we'd stay in touch), from Calif, to Arizona to the east coast, to Mexico, to England.
Oh, and one last "I wish". I wish I was as rich as Witko and could buy and sell guitars and ukes like him! |
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| Moody,p.i. - got it in one. The fact that your kids play instruments is the answer to an "I wish" that you didn't realise you made. My kids have been listening to me play since before they were born, and I now have an 11 year old clarinet player playing like a young Benny Goodman and a 9 year old classical guitar player who's just won a major competition. I wish that my folks had played musical instruments and then I'd have started earlier.
So, all you youngsters out there - keep playing and don't ever stop - you don't know what inspiration you might be supplying.
Personally I wish I could play like Joe Pass, Tal Farlow, Django, Al di Meola and George Benson. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Forget the playing, I just wish I could type like some secretaries I have known. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | This question is bigger than music right? It's a simple answer;
I wish I could play EVERYTHING I WANT TO like I WANT TO.
and as Mick says, you can't always get what you want |
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Location: NJ | but if you try sometimes...you get what you need |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | That's why we keep trying, isn't it? |
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Location: Houston, TX | The days seem to hectic and static filled sometimes...
I've developed a very enjoyable habit the last few years. At the end of the day, laying in bed ready for sleep, I think of nothing but free form stream of conciousness guitar riffs, progressions, etc. Whatever pops in there gets to stay. It is type of six-string meditation, I guess, and very relaxing and interesting. Countless times my last waking thought will be something like "damn, this is good, I have to remember this and try to play it tomorrow." Double-edged sword - I go to sleep with a mental smile and then spend 18 hours the next day trying to remember what that sound was the night before. I can remember my inane mental commentary, like "yeah this is pink floyd if Barrett played jazz at age 50" or some such nonsense, but I can't remember the melodies.
So, I guess my entry to this thread is that I wish I could play like I dream. |
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Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma | I wish I could play all the instruments I want, like I do the guitar..... Violin ain't anything like the guitar...
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Location: Denver, Colorado | I wish I could play "CLASSICAL GAS" like GLEN CAMPBELL! (or anything like Mr. Magic Fingers Glen) |
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Location: NJ | didn't john williams do claassical gas? |
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Location: Queens, NY | I wish I could play guitar like Alex Lifeson.
I wish I could play bass like Geddy Lee (and sing too).
I wish I could play mandolin like Jimmy Page (or play mandolin at all, really).
I wish I could play drums like Neil Peart (or like my friend Gary, who CAN play drums like Neil Peart). |
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Location: SoCal | I wish I could play like.....
It's more like I wish I could be Glen Campbell, when he was about 30. To be able to just hear something in your head and be able to play or sing it.... to be able to pick up a guitar and just know where all the notes are and how to find them... to be able to harmonize vocally with anybody.... But only for a day. I wouldn't want his life.
Now, having said that, I wouldn't trade my life for anybody else's. While I wouldn't mind experiencing Campbell's musical ability for a day, and certainly wouldn't mind having his bank account, I wouldn't trade my life for his or anybody elses. I have been blessed. And doublly blessed in that I recognize it. |
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Location: south east Michigan | didn't john williams do classical gas?
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Yes but it looks like Glen is keeping it alive.
Interesting responces here. I wish I could say that I would like to be just "me" but I'm not lucky enough to be wired that way. I need a little inspiration. I envy those that have a direct connection between brain & fingers. |
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Location: NJ | "ClassicalGas" - MASON Williams. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Oh...thats right.
Mason Williams = Classical Gas
John Williams = Star Wars |
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Location: NJ | Actually Slip, there is a very reknowned classical guitarist, John Williams as well. VERY good.
If you can by chance get a copy of the ORIGINAL "Secret Policeman's Ball" concert (not the second, "Other" one), there are clips of Townshend and Williams playing acoustic duets of "Pinball Wizard" and "Won't Get Fooled Again".
The story goes that Townshend suffers from narcolepsy . . .
Evidently, before the show, someone left a bottle of very fine brandy in Pete's dressing room . . . which he immediately consumed . . . completely.
After the last song, Pete hits the last creschendo chord to thunderous applause . . . and immediately goes to sleep . . . standing up. |
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Location: puerto vallarta, mexico | Originally posted by alpep:
I wish I could teach my fingers to play all the music that is in my head.
you too? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | The thing that would be interesting to have would be the knowledge of the experiences that the old blues guys had back when it was all being created, all the good and the bad and how it all worked together to make the music that Eric and the others do covers of today. |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | "I wish I could play____like_____"
Guitar like Andres Segovia or Tony Rice
Banjo like Earl or J.D.
...sigh... I still play like me! :mad: :( |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Tim
Ain't a damn thing wrong with playing like yourself, every friggin picker that ever got any fame played like himself. Earl never copied the Stanleys and Bill Monroe never copied any body. Play your best and let it lie, "sounds like" is not really a compliment.
I, of course, sound like shit so that doesn't count as breaking new ground, but my audience always liked it because I seemed sincere and knew the songs.
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Location: Yucaipa, California | ...ahhhhh...yes....semantics.... I should have said "play as good as" Andres, Earl or J.D. instead of "play like" them. I don't want to be a clone of anyone, I just wish I had the time to spend in order to play as well as they do/did. ;)
I play like "me" as influenced by several other musicians... people seem to enjoy my playing, but I am never really satisfied with my work... but, that's a good thing. Set the bar as high as you can! Go for it! Learn that 4th Chord!(whatever it is!) :rolleyes: |
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"I wish I could play____like_____"