Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
Now that we're established and we have a history we know that we can expect people to show up and to have a good time.
When I think of a lot of the players I admire, they could always play their parts without hiding behind distortion and sustain. Put the time in. Hear your mistakes. Yeah, it sucks, it's humbling, it makes you want to throw the guitar out the window. But if you work on your mistakes, they'll eventually go away, and you'll become a strong player.
Music is a communication. It's a two-way street. You need people to play to in order to make that connection complete. That's the way we look at it.
Obviously the best way to retain the most profit is to not give any of it away. That's something that you certainly learn through the years.
A lot of people around the world were, like, very frustrated, you know "Why don't you just release the name? Why is it taking so long?" But the cool thing is that it brought people together, like you said, it brought our fans into the experience, it sort of exposed us, exposed the process, and I think it welcomed Mike Magini, because people saw what happened to get to that point.
I remember feeling for the first time going somewhere where I was part of a community where I didn't feel like an outcast. I felt like I belonged. Everyone had a guitar strapped to their back.
Great minds think alone.
You Liberals think that goats are just sheep from broken homes.
People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. Its not viewed as a serious continent. Its a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people dont do what common sense demands.
You get to have some mischief before you're basically a blackened banana, impotent, and nothing to be afraid of.