Stone Temple Pilots - Daisy: youtube.com/watch?v=_9pxsXbes4Y
I'm not much of a jamming musician. Not that I'm opposed to it, it's just that until the age of 20 or so I knew no one else who even played. One friend, Jonathan Kenny, but he was far beyond my scope as a musician, he had no time for me. I'd been playing guitar for 9 years before I even got a chance. And so it's just such a foreign concept to me, the interplay and the relation.
There was this song, though. My brother Colin started learning guitar just after me and of course he was better at it. But he insisted, when this album came out, that we learn how to play this song together, he would play the chords and I would play the melody. We would do this again later with Elliott Smith's "Kiwi Maddog 20/20" as well. It's one of the rare instances in my youth where I wasn't nurturing my philosophies on music as the acts of the solitary artist.
So I don't play well with others, mostly. I've been trying, been humbling myself within other peoples projects variously but am actually yet to pick up an instrument to play in another persons band, be a contributing member. I've been thinking of starting a psych reggae band but that won't play out, likely.
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