the longest thread, thread - Occasionally NSFW

[AndyDufresne]

Oh Science. Love it.

**Munches on a banana**


--Andy

[AndyDufresne]

I've been listening to CSPAN-2 this morning, to the House Science, Space, & Technology Committee 'questioning' the White House Director of Science & Technology Policy Dr. John Holdren. Listening to some of them wax poetic about NASA and high energy particle physics while some of them (or their previous colleagues) saw it quite fit to cut / eliminate funding in order to 'reduce the budget deficit' according to public Congress records.

Whenever I listen to these Congressional hearings regarding either scientific agencies like NASA or science policy and some of the skeptical or 'lecturing' questions and comments, it just makes me want to bang my head on the desk.

**Munches on a banana**


--Andy

[2dimes]

bang my head on the desk.

How much funding for Space exploration could be generated via this proceedure?

[AndyDufresne]

Enough!



**Munches on a banana**


--Andy

[2dimes]

Get to work then.

[jonesthecurl]

[AndyDufresne]

**Munches on a banana** Almost the weekend. Mmmmmhm.


--Andy

[strike wolf]

Silly monkey. the weekend's almost over.

[pancakemix]

Not much activity in here.

[AndyDufresne]

Agreed. We should change that. With...a banana-volution. **Munches on a banana**


--Andy

[jonesthecurl]

Is that evolution or revolution?

[strike wolf]

Bananas have consumed this thread.

[strike wolf]

So I've decided as a guitarist. I want to be as great a player as Stevie Ray Vaughan, as emotive with the guitar as David Gilmour and be innovative all by this time next week...I sometimes think I'm aiming too low.

[pancakemix]

Bananas have consumed this thread.

Think it should be the other way around?

[Quirk]

http://onlineathens.com/national-news/2 ... s-building

Banana truck crash destroys 1745 Mass. building
By Associated Presspublished Sunday, June 24, 2012

SEEKONK, Mass. — An out-of-control tractor-trailer carrying bananas crashed into a natural gas main and ignited an explosion on Sunday morning, setting fire to an 18th-century building that housed a tavern and destroying it.

[2dimes]

So I've decided as a guitarist. I want to be as great a player as Stevie Ray Vaughan, as emotive with the guitar as David Gilmour and be innovative all by this time next week...I sometimes think I'm aiming too low.

I find the best way to improve my playing is to play with a band where everyone else is way better than you. If they will have you.



Covers

• Ever long - Foo Fighters
• Bad girlfriend - Theory of a deadman
• Sharp dressed man - Zed Zed Top!
• Big slice - Jonas and the Massive Attraction
• River flows - Collective soul

[AndyDufresne]

I've never been able to play an instrument. I think I tried to play the saxophone in grade school, and quit after 3 lessons.

**Munches on a banana**


--Andy

[2dimes]

It's tough to find a good teacher who can motivate and teach a beginer well.
Try a bass the saying is it's the easiest instrument to play but is difficult to play well. Other good simple instruments are Jaws Harp and Ocarina. Have you ever tried to program a keyboard? You might be really good at that, it's more like a puzzle. You don't need any rhythem with your hands.

[AndyDufresne]

When I was younger, I once road on a train and bought a dime store harmonica and pretended I was a super tramp.

**Munches on a banana**


--Andy

[2dimes]

You could have pretended to be Rudy or taken the long way home also.

[AndyDufresne]

I pretended to be a poor boy, long ways from home.



**Munches on a poor banana**


--Andy

[2dimes]

I don't have any John Hurt recordings.

[jonesthecurl]

I've never been able to play an instrument. I think I tried to play the saxophone in grade school, and quit after 3 lessons.

**Munches on a banana**


--Andy

I was learning to play bass when i worked in an office in London, but someone stole the instrument after a few days.

[strike wolf]

It's tough to find a good teacher who can motivate and teach a beginer well.
Try a bass the saying is it's the easiest instrument to play but is difficult to play well. Other good simple instruments are Jaws Harp and Ocarina. Have you ever tried to program a keyboard? You might be really good at that, it's more like a puzzle. You don't need any rhythem with your hands.

Well base has less strings than other guitars so yeah it's easier in that sense. Only thing harder about the bass would probably be the finger strength required (bass strings are thicker).

Part of my problem with learning is I am a bit unfocused. I really want to get good at finger picking and I want to learn barres better (I can play an F# barre but I haven't learned any others yet) and I also want to do 20 other things at the same time. The only reason I haven't tried to learn slide guitar is because currently I don't have all the accessories I need.

[pancakemix]

It's tough to find a good teacher who can motivate and teach a beginer well.
Try a bass the saying is it's the easiest instrument to play but is difficult to play well. Other good simple instruments are Jaws Harp and Ocarina. Have you ever tried to program a keyboard? You might be really good at that, it's more like a puzzle. You don't need any rhythem with your hands.

Well base has less strings than other guitars so yeah it's easier in that sense. Only thing harder about the bass would probably be the finger strength required (bass strings are thicker).

Part of my problem with learning is I am a bit unfocused. I really want to get good at finger picking and I want to learn barres better (I can play an F# barre but I haven't learned any others yet) and I also want to do 20 other things at the same time. The only reason I haven't tried to learn slide guitar is because currently I don't have all the accessories I need.

Less string doesn't have much to do with it, I think. There are other factors at play that make more of a difference. For instance, there's a lot more stretching involved as opposed to regular guitar (wider frets, strings further apart), and good rhythm is key to good bass playing.

You might laugh, but I've found that playing copious amounts of Guitar Hero/Rock Band games has improved my innate rhythm immensely.