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Post by Mindfrigg on Dec 17, 2015 16:29:54 GMT
My late bro that played as far back as I can remember beat it in my head when I started learning instruments, "Sometimes it's more important what you don't play than what you do..." Took me a while to truly understand *that*... but then one night I heard somebody covering something and noticed that he embellished what was pretty much a straight-forward rock song with a lot of curlicue fills and stuff until the song sounded bloated and kinda stupid. Overdone, overwrought, and slightly cacophonous even though the player was a good one. It was his arrangement that sucked-- too busy! The whole thing reminds me of that bit in the Beverly Hillbillies, where Jed carved a perfect bust of granny out of a chunk of oak, and Mr. Drysdale asked how he did it. Jed said that he simply removed everything that didn't look like Granny... Later on in life, I learned that actually, the show's writers had ripped off something called "The Methodist Quarterly Review”, which published a very similar comment in 1858-- and that the reference wasn't originally humorous. But you never forget the well where you got your first water, and so to me it was the Wisdom of Jed... and kinda still is. At least, I liked the way he said it best. And so yeah: sometimes it really is more important what you don't play. I get it. --Rob
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Post by Schidney on Dec 17, 2015 16:46:35 GMT
May the pie be with you.
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Post by Mindfrigg on Dec 17, 2015 16:50:00 GMT
That still kills me. I know guys like that. Wait. I'm one.
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Post by Schidney on Dec 17, 2015 16:57:56 GMT
That still kills me. I know guys like that. Wait. I'm one. Aye yi ure. Piemaster.
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Post by Mindfrigg on Dec 17, 2015 17:15:34 GMT
Takes one to know one sez I.
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Post by Schidney on Dec 17, 2015 17:22:15 GMT
Can't argue with a multiple black belt in Pie Fu.
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Post by Mindfrigg on Dec 17, 2015 17:36:36 GMT
Defo
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Post by Schidney on Dec 17, 2015 18:00:13 GMT
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Post by Mindfrigg on Dec 17, 2015 18:03:54 GMT
A pie will laugh at anything.
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Post by Schidney on Dec 17, 2015 18:29:36 GMT
Henceforth you to be called Lord Misery Guts of Pieshire.
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Post by Mindfrigg on Dec 17, 2015 20:06:58 GMT
Is there a ceremony for that? And what about my yearly stipend?
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Post by Schidney on Dec 17, 2015 20:22:36 GMT
Funny you should ask that as there is folks snapping up hotel rooms way ahead of the event..
We all conglomerate together & kick the shit out of you then chuck in a few dollars for the Stipend.
Got me steel toe cap boots especially shinny for this auspicious occasion.
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Post by roberteaux on Dec 17, 2015 20:59:48 GMT
Henceforth you to be called Lord Misery Guts of Pieshire. Hey NO POLITICS in... Oh wait... wrong site! --Rob
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Post by Schidney on Dec 17, 2015 21:09:14 GMT
Henceforth you to be called Lord Misery Guts of Pieshire. Hey NO POLITICS in... Oh wait... wrong site! --Rob Too late... Henceforth to be known as Bard of the Yard.
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Post by Grand Toad on Dec 17, 2015 23:18:47 GMT
A pie will laugh at anything. Does your wife ever get weary of you laughing at the shrubbery.
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Post by Mindfrigg on Dec 17, 2015 23:23:36 GMT
Funny you should ask that as there is folks snapping up hotel rooms way ahead of the event.. We all conglomerate together & kick the shit out of you then chuck in a few dollars for the Stipend. Got me steel toe cap boots especially shinny for this auspicious occasion. Hm. Doesn't sound like something I'd like.
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Post by Mindfrigg on Dec 17, 2015 23:33:35 GMT
A pie will laugh at anything. Does your wife ever get weary of you laughing at the shrubbery.
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Post by Maxwell on Dec 18, 2015 5:29:31 GMT
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Post by Mindfrigg on Dec 18, 2015 7:42:15 GMT
I'm thinkin I should PM that to Caleb.
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Post by Schidney on Dec 18, 2015 9:25:39 GMT
Does your wife ever get weary of you laughing at the shrubbery. I'm thinkin I should PM that to Caleb. Tee Hee.
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Post by Maxwell on Dec 18, 2015 15:12:28 GMT
Yet, still taller than Friggsley...
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Post by Grand Toad on Dec 18, 2015 21:19:23 GMT
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Post by Maxwell on Dec 18, 2015 22:37:52 GMT
Hah!
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Post by Catfish on Dec 18, 2015 23:55:13 GMT
Omfg. Comedy gold!
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Post by Schidney on Dec 19, 2015 3:36:07 GMT
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Post by Bill h on Dec 19, 2015 14:37:08 GMT
LoL.... Damn that's funny!!!!
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Post by Schidney on Dec 19, 2015 19:16:38 GMT
LoL.... Damn that's funny!!!! Yep. Don't want to anger the Groovester. Might get humped by a drive by meme.
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Post by Bill h on Dec 19, 2015 19:21:39 GMT
LoL.... Damn that's funny!!!! Yep. Don't want to anger the Groovester. Might get humped by a drive by meme. Ahhhh, even funnier!!!
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Post by Woderwick on Jan 20, 2016 21:07:48 GMT
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