Damn Billy.....

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Watching him (and Tommy Emmanuel and Doyle Dykes) play is at once inspiring and discouraging. I alternate between wanting to quit working and just play all the time, and wanting to burn all my guitars!
 

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Honestly, Sandy..... i try to put my effort into not thinking about who's better than me, because then I'm overwhelmed!! But then when I'm ready to throw it all in and say, well just screw it.... I think of Kurt's words....

Kurt Vonegut.jpg
 

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Honestly, Sandy..... i try to put my effort into not thinking about who's better than me, because then I'm overwhelmed!! But then when I'm ready to throw it all in and say, well just screw it.... I think of Kurt's words....

Kurt Vonegut.jpg

I don't play because I'm good at it. I do it because I enjoy it..... and that's enough to be getting on with now, right?
I need to think more like that!
 

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Did he not start out as a thrash metal guitarist who converted to bluegrass?
Thought I heard that somewhere.

He is a great player, sounds a bit like Tony Rice, which is a plus, and he has a great voice for bluegrass too.
 

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I too like what KV said...I wish I had heard that when I was 15...

To be fair, I also know how lazy I am as a person, in general. I do stuff cause I either have to or find joy in it. The former outweighs the latter for sure, but I am ok with it.
 

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With the understanding that this was "filmed" (taped / recorded / ???) with the cooperation of BNSF, the music is good and the imagery good but the actions are illegal and potentially deadly. Entering railroad property is trespassing. Adding your personal artwork to a railcar is vandalism. Riding (especially rooftops) and boarding a moving train is risky even for those that do it regularly. Many bridges and tunnels do not have sufficient clearance for a rider on a car top. And that scene of reaching out of one car to touch a passing railcar is just nuts! Be smart!! Do not ever try any of these activities except playing the music....... Rant over..... just listen to the music...... close your eyes & listen to the music.........
 

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I like Billy well enough. A super flatpicking talent. (yes he comes from a metal shredding past) And it's not that I ever NOT want to see somebody succeed and reap all the rewards that come with it, but Billy is currently a major rising hot ticket on the jam band scene and only growing fast. Bluegrass has always been intertwined in that scene going back to the Grateful Dead. But now it's gone over the top. I really enjoy a relaxing night out of some high quality old school Bluegrass, but honestly, my interest in going to see Billy now is waning, as it'll be in a packed amphitheater full of the same drugged out kids you'd see at a Phish concert. (he recently sold out 2 nights at Pier 6 Pavilion, a 5,000 seater in Baltimore. (aftermarket tix were going for hundreds!)) Maybe it's just me, but when I think of bluegrass, I don't think Nitrous tank balloons in the parking lot, and zonked out hippies doing their free form dancing in the isles w/o ever even watching the band.:cautious:
 

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True, though!! I want everyone to sit down and just LISTEN to the concert and instead they're all making their own noise and carrying on..... nope!!
 
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