I discuss FINGER PICKING versus the use of the PICK, during guitar playing

I left a comment on Jason's blog about FINGERPICKING,
He had posted a video of someone fingerpicking a guitar to beautiful perfection.
Made me recall how when I first bought a guitar in nov 2009, I
gravitated naturally to finger picking rather than using a pick and
also found that I was more interested in tapping and drummin the
guitar even more than learning chords and such.I left a comment for
jason there on his blog and I am reposting my comment on here,
Here goes
MY COMMENT
"I prefer finger-picking the guitar over using a guitar pick.I am no
guitar expert.I am a very meager beginner who rarely
practices.Yet,when I first bought my guitar, I instinctively went into
a finger strumming and tapping session.I was thinking to myself
"whoa..that sounded like a concert in itself".These days however, I am
trying in vain to CONDITION myself to use a pick.Maybe i must give up
the pick altogether and just use my fingers to pick..Fingerpicking
comes VERY naturally to me.hmmmm "

To go read the original blog entry on which I made this comment, go here
http://jasonmraz.com/journal/2012/89306/

The REGURGITANT VOMIT that is Hollywood LYRICS and TUNES! When "currrent-day-Hollywood-popular singers" steal from "old-time-forgotten tunes"

I am not going to name this current artist that this blog entry is about.This particular artist is considered to be uber-talented.I thought so too.

I thought that he was "oh-so-different and original" and apart from the rest of the majority of the hollywood industry which is stealing and plagiarising like the plague

Anyways,Just a few minutes ago, I went to the PBS website and was watching PBS VIDEO SHORTS for the series AMERICAN MASTERS-INVENTING DAVID GEFFEN :Sunset Blvd

Go here to watch that video short yourself   

click below

http://video.pbs.org/video/2276649890

This is a preview of the upcoming episode  due to premiere on PBS on Nov,20,2012 .The preview-short shows OLD FOOTAGE from way back in 1971, much prior to when I was born, prior to when this CURRENT ARTIST that I am talking about was also born..Me and the current artist are of the same age..so ..yeah

The video short talks about GEFFEN ROBERTS (a Hollywood agent?)  and his office on sunset Boulevard and how Geffen and Elliott ,how they were a good team and how they were so  ARTIST FRIENDLY and such. There is a tiny clip of NEIL YOUNG talking about Geffen in this video-short too. And as this clip is played, they play a background song of (possibly) NEIL YOUNG? (have to look this up)

I AM GOING TO EMBED THE VIDEO RIGHT HERE , (But as is the case with embedding videos from other sources , there is a high degree of possibility that this video might become unavailable at a later point of time, which is why I am taking pains to type out the gist of the video )

Watch Inventing David Geffen: Sunset Blvd. on PBS. See more from American Masters.

COMING TO THIS CURRENT ARTIST,I won't name him , BUT you will easily recognize him if you read the LYRICS of his latest song which charted no 1 on the billboard very recently..

Funnily, this Billboard No.1 song talks about NEIL YOUNG, about 1971 and also about California and what bothered me the most is that the TUNE of this song is exactly like the song of NEIL YOUNG which has been used as background song for that PBS VIDEO SHORT about David Geffen.

Neil young is alive, yeah?

So,If you are lifting his tune, You must acknowledge that in your credits on your album and also possibly pay him royalty, yeah?

Also,

This song almost sounds  like it would be something written right after watching this very PBS video short..LOL

It is so easy to get away with plagiarism by calling it a "SONG INSPIRED BY YADA YADA" , as in , You "STOLE from yada yada without giving proper credit or royalty!"

When Hollywood  singers who initially wrote  songs about REAL life experiences  to claim their place in FAME-LAND are now leading a RICH PERSON'S PROTECTED LIFE, they CEASE TO HAVE ANY REAL LIFE EXPERIENCES ANYMORE.They end up writing SHITTY-FORCED SONGS-ABOUT STUPID,MEANINGLESS HOLLYWOOD RELATIONSHIPS(which BTW are FORCED in their own way ) and  then also write songs lifting from older artists (older-currently-lesser-known artists or songs) or even from CURRENT-real-talented-lesser know artists...sigh..All in an effort to KEEP THE MONEY COMING IN.

These so called CELEBRITY "ARTISTS"( Hate the word celebrity)  get a taste of the wealthy lifestyle and don't want to ever give the comfort up

COMFORT IS SO ADDICTIVE that in order to continue to maintain the RICH LIFESTYLE, they start PLAGIARISING..STEALING songs from others..all for the MONEYED LIFE..NO?

SHAME ON THE PLAGIARISTS

tags: lyrics,hollywood,plagiarism,los_angeles,geffen_david,sunset_blvd,stealing,songs,Neil_young,PBS,PBS_video_shorts,PBS_previews,copyright

Letters to Mr.U-Sharing my favorite poem-dated oct 30,2007-IF by Rudyard Kipling

LETTERS I WROTE TO MR.U-SHARING MY FAVORITE POEM WITH HIM
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Please also note that here in these blogs I am only posting EXCERPTS from MY OWN EMAILS to someone else WHOSE IDENTITY remains HIDDEN .No actual personally identifiable information about this other person has been revealed by me in these blogs all in an attempt to protect their privacy and mine as well.
=============================This Email was originally sent by me to Mr.U on Oct,30,2007.
I just shared with him one of my favorite poems ever.
It is a poem call "IF" by Rudyard Kipling dated 1895(that is more than a century old and yet holds good even today.)This is what I call a FOREVERL-Y RELEVANT POEM.
Here goes an Excerpt from that email
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Sent:	October 30, 2007
Read:	—
Subject:	mmmm...Hi ?

This is one of my fav. poems.This poem is titled "IF" and is by Rudyard Kipling

Here it goes
IF


Are losing theirs and blaming it on you ,

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you .

But make allowance for their doubting too ;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting ,

Or being lied about , don't deal in lies,

Or being hated ,don't give way to hating ,

And yet don't look too good,not talk too wise;

Or being hated ,don't give way to hating ,

If you can dream -and not make dreams your master;

If you can think-and not make thoughts your aim,

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

And treat those two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken

Twisted by Knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to ,broken,

And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one turn of pitch -and -toss,
And lose. and start again at your beginnings

And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the Will which says to them:"Hold on!'

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with Kings -nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you ,

If all men count with you ,but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,

And -which is more-you'll be a Man,my son!

RUDYARD KIPLING


TAKE CARE ,XXXX

P.S: I meant to write a long letter to you ,,,but then i thought..mmmmmm......"I am not even sure who is reading all these mails that i send you ..why waste emotion and put it out there?right..Reciprocity is such a big word in life..isn't it?..!"
P.P.S: I am sending the same poem to your XXXX email too..just incase..LOL *********************************************************************
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I am trying to remember hard if this was actually an email or was it a message I sent him on myspace or youtube(which btw i have sent quite a few-Most of my youtube messages to him were notes i wrote for each video I shared with him.I keep lamenting that I never made a copy of those youtube notes that i sent him back then and now they are LOST FOREVER.My most initial communications to him were via myspace and youtube.Wish I had made a copy of those notes.sigh
BTW,More Mr.U blogs coming up.Based on the subject matter of each individual "Mr.U blog" I will post them in any one of the five blogs that I write under LECINQBLOG ..You might have to forage around all five blogs to read all of the Latest blogs about Mr.U.

Letters to Mr.U-My first ever email to him-making assistants read his mail!

MY FIRST EVER EMAIL TO MR.U

This is an excerpt from what I remember as my first ever email to Mr.U...Ofcourse, I had sent him messages on myspace by then,prolly youtube too and prolly even wrote about him on my older blog back then..but this was my first official email to him(if memory serves me right)...I have tried to replace all personally identifiable details in this email with xxxxx .However,I fear that inspite of all the "xxxx substitution" I might still end up not masking enough detail.HMMM

Some of you might wonder why I am posting excerpts from all these old emails ,after all these years.Well! I wanted to share all the beautiful thoughts of mine with everyone else, the thoughts that I just shared with him back then.I re-read some of those older emails I wrote to him and then suddenly realized that so many other folks would actually benefit from such similar banter of mine.Anyways,coming back to the email , here goes

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From: xxxxxx
Subject: who exactly reads all your mail?huh?
To: xxxxxxx
Date: Tuesday, January 30, 2007, 8:43 AM

this is a test mail ...just to activate my outlook express...btw.. wonder why you even opened up this "contact xxxxx" option... tons and tons are gonna mail you hoping you would personally read the mail..but your team is gonna read it... oops... not good.. not good at all...can a human actually go read tons of mail addressed to him all day?no.. so why...why? why open up this option ... hmmm.sighs ....xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx...sad but true and that includes ... not being able to read all your mail... all by yourself and needing to hire people read your mail.. nothing personal about making other people read your mail..

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when I read this email that I wrote to him,I went into a tangent of thought process.

The busier our work gets > yada yada>>>hmmmm....part of the game...no?

Just dropping in to say hello to all blog readers

Hello!