Happy 1st Anniversary

 

So how has the past year been for you?  You're definitely wearing much nicer clothes!  Look how scruffy you were when I found you!  I kinda wish you would stay 17, but I'll take you as you are now.  Happy Anniversary, beautiful girl!

Rock Star, not politician

 

I regret to inform you that you failed as a politician in Birmingham AL.  But you're not a politician.  You are a Rock Star.  Don't you ever run for political office, Grace.  Your place in the world is to play guitar.

You're damned right I care about your safety.  But I'm not there to keep you on a leash, so please keep yourself on a leash.  All it takes is ONE traumatic experience, ONE mistake, and you'll never be the same again.  Don't think the experience is necessary to create.  True creation is from God, everything else is selfish human shit.  So please be a pampered pussycat and keep away from risk.  You don't need it, and I love you.

Voodoo Child

 

How many pedals did Jimi use here?

Whatever happened to these guys, anyway?  Voodoo?

I want you to be the greatest electric guitarist ever!  Here's some homework for you, Grace.  Play these 2 videos back to back loud, so loud that you can't hear the snares rattle.  Then improvise along with them without doing the same thing over and over again and without pausing, play over them and drown them out.  If you can't do this, then these MEN are better guitarists than you.  Please post a video of your completion of this homework on the Internet so I can grade it.  Refusal to do this task means that these MEN are better guitarists than you.  You have one month to complete this assignment.

Witch Queen of New Orleans

 

Voodoo

 

We still have witch doctors here.  They go under the guise of Islam, and they can look like everyday people.  I guess we still have witch doctors everywhere.  Yes, those are crosses they wear.

The rule with pagan rituals is that when you participate with them, then you are one of them.  Don't cross that line, Grace.  It might appear when you're busy playing guitar.

Birmingham AL

 

Hurricane Katrina