Are today's guitarists mostly a bunch of spineless copycats? Spartacus of Guitar says yes!
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That's right, most are cheating copycats and to a lesser degree that includes me. We are so thoroughly indoctrinated into the commercial industry mentality, that musicians actually ask to become an indentured musical servant playing back industry standard structures like an organic jukebox. I'm sorry to say that this is pathetic. Even in my case, I can barely conceive of making an album completely free of the shackles of playing "acceptable" or "commercial" musical structures. Even the lead-in to songs is not for soloing the guitar, it's for DJs to make a "COMMERCIAL" over the beginning of your song. I rarely see anybody playing anything unique anymore, as I did back in the late 60s and early 70's. EVERYONE IS COPYING all the time knowingly or unknowingly at least 98% of the time these days!
In fairness many of the breakthroughs of electric guitar and the modern-day "Blues Key" has already been discovered, so it is harder to be unique nowadays. That is no reason to lay down and bow your head to the powers that be. For example, modern day anchormen basically do zero journalism, only say what they are told to say, and argue on the side they are being paid to argue for even when they know they are wrong. In other words the commercial television journalists are liars and they are people that probably shouldn't have children because they don't give a hoot about the kids in the world. Don't be a sellout! Publicists in the music industry are paid to teach the artists how to lie, empower their position, and disempower the fans.
Free yourself now, which is easy since it is you that has enslaved yourself. Imagine how ridiculous it would be for you to look at videos of yourself to mimic yourself speaking. lol This is essentially what is happening thousands of times removed with guitarists to the point where people are copying other people's rendition of other player's idiosyncrasies or even mistakes. Yes, by living as a copycat, you're sentencing yourself to a life of repeating other people's mistakes, when you should be breaking new territory for yourself and the kids in the world.
By the way, please excuse me because I was 15 years old at Woodstock when Crosby stills and Nash had their first,or technically second gig so I am an original fan, but
I am very disappointed in Graham Nash for being a 74-year-old man, who pontificates with reverse humility psychology instead of encouraging the youth. Yes, he wrote some great "folk songs" and was in vocal groups with nice harmonies who wrote folk songs with socially current messages. It is still folk music though, in other words meant to be played by folks in folksy situations. He talks like he's Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic with the Vienna boys choir performing works of art that have stood the test of time for hundreds of years.
I take nothing away from Mr. Nash as being one of the top folk singer songwriters of the electric folk music era. The difference however is not that Leonard Bernstein was more musically advanced and a historically great musical scholar, or that Graham Nash is one of the most successful folk songwriters ever.....
The difference is that Leonard Bernstein was continually empowering kids through education programs. He encouraged everyone that music was the language that brings people together and it is the children that can bring a better future for the world through the social benefits of music. In Graham Nash's defense, he is not alone in that most artists will have been similarly emotionally exploited for their narcissism and hypomania, especially ones that make as much money as he does. In other words I'm saying that in a sense musically he never grew up, and his priorities are deeply narcissistic. (aren't we all) We need him to encourage us to excel and study instead of making comments like, "I was so courageous to leave the Hollies".
I understand hearing this from a young man just getting a career going saying what their publicist and record company tells them to say, but for Graham Nash to talk like that at 74 years old shows how even if you make hundreds of millions of dollars, if you don't break out of your own personal musical slavery you will be destined to repeat yourself over and over again until you decline and become absurd. Let's give Graham a break here and just say that in these revival shows is pathetic to see, for example the "Four Freshmen" hobbling on stage with their walkers.
You can be perfect now. All it takes is being in the right context, not lying to yourself or accepting other people's lies as truths, and no matter how simple the task, to perform it perfectly. As the great breakthrough guitarist Johnny Hiland says, "Make every note count". Spartacus says that you can't imagine how many frontiers of musical landscapes are waiting for you to discover if only you would unlock the shackles of your self induced mental musical slavery. You weren't born a musical slave so there is no reason to voluntarily enslave yourself. I have all the master keys to the musical infrastructures that are used today and I will give you free sessions until you get on your feet. So no excuses, either be in illusion thinking that you feel better that way, or you can take the key and free yourself...
One more thing about Graham Nash is that as one of the original fans of CSN, and to put my money where my mouth is, I would be delighted to consult with him at no charge in order to encourage his musical development. I have taught others in his "crowd" so I am not being ludicrous or disrespectful here, in fact I will teach ANYONE WHO WANTS TO BE FREE! NOW!
Contact me now on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pauljamout.harrison or "guitarcrossroads" on Skype or email me at: spartacusofguitar@gmail.com so we can get started wtith no obligation. Thanks for your consideration. This offer is FREE :-)
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