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Re: Sad Beauty



oh yes man i love that record!!
I think thats where David Gilmour got his inspiration to play the way he 
does!
cheers
Luis

www.myspace.com/luisangulocom


--- On Wed, 1/7/09, samba - <sambacomet@hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: samba - <sambacomet@hotmail.com>
> Subject: Sad Beauty
> To: loopers-delight@loopers-delight.com
> Date: Wednesday, January 7, 2009, 12:28 PM
> Roy Buchanan's The Messiah Will Come Again ,is one of
> the most emotional guitar solos ever. Roy said,(not about
> that tune in particular) that he used to close his eyes and
> say help me help me help me while playing certain passages.
>   Robbie Robertson,who also learned some stuff from
> Roy,spoke of holding his breath to get feeling into some
> parts.
>    On sentiment,emotion maudlin etc. I consider Sentiment
> to connote nostalgia for past emotions, which is a bit
> different than registering a spontaneous emotional response
> in the present. Both are part of the artists tools for
> evoking emotion.  Maudlin has the connotation of emotional
> over response,wallowing in it. It's the sort of thing
> Anglo Saxons were likely tolabel latin cultures with
> It's certainly traditional in the more northern climates
> where survival was tougher,for the cultures to be more
> emotionally reserved,while those closer to the equator were
> more epxressive. In many places culture is more effected by
> media ,economics and eduction now than climate. Still
> I've been in places in te N. Midwest where folks that
> are good friends are uncomfortable if one stands close than
> 3 or 4 feet from them,and lived in Hawaii where  people will
> kiss people they're just meeting on the cheek.
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> If
> we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but
> timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live
> in the
> present.Ludwig Wittgenstein