alcaponedudu! You're saying I got more relaxed and played with more flow,
when I can see what you're typing here and can say the same thing.
The more font I see from you, the more it means to me.
Please don't think they were lessons for you.
I was watching YouTube videos where guitarists are teaching you something,
and the only influence they had on me was deciding not to show my face.
It has been difficult for me to just want to make a video, and then equally hard to get it together.
I spent ten hours two days ago making a new door barrier with a secret way to open it,
and I built up one wall, where you could climb over a vendors booth at the back,
and get into my apartment. I left some markers up there and saw they were moved.
That helps me relax here, and have confidence I can build my guitars without anything being stolen.
You would have to use a sledgehammer to get into my apartment now.
When I auditioned as a lead guitarist, unless it was a band I really liked, I didn't sing.
Usually, it was more about being part of a show, playing a role, for a show set.
Being able to dance and move around onstage was a big part of my act.
Those tiger stripe tights came from a punk rock store in Ottawa, very sexy.
When I was saying I was Scottish, girls would ask if I had underwear on underneath them.
I would ask "do tigers have underwear on under their skin?" That's onstage attitude.
My fourth video really is a lesson, showing how Jimi Hendrix used a Gmaj chord in two songs.
You asked about the Trouble Clef songlist, and that's a name I didn't really like.
We did Police songs, some on the charts, Roxanne, Message in a Bottle, Can't Stand Losing You,
Walking on the Moon, Da Do Da Da, nice song to jam up.
New Wave and Stepping Out by Joe Jackson, Let's Dance by David Bowie, on the charts...
with some songs by Ontario and Canadian bands.
I'm not trying to bring you down, or myself, but playing with your video won't be like a video by myself.
In a way, it will feel like phone sex... something I did once with a girlfriend who was away on vacation.
I could easily write a letter to share my deepest personal thoughts, but once on the phone was enough.
Just playing on top of your entire production feels wrong from the start,
but as you can see, I have gotten into making videos with me playing electric guitar, so you are coming up soon.
Right now, I can see doing one about playing with a wah-wah pedal.
That's more about timing with your foot, from moving it in time with the beat, what most guitarists did,
to waving it with more complications than syncopated and poly-rhythmic drumming.
But you know what, Eduardo. It's giving me confidence as an older man who hasn't been in a band for too long.
I'm not onstage, that's for sure, but I'm seeing myself online where so many others are.
And I don't want to give it all away online, because I want people to come and see me.
When I do what I'm going to do this afternoon and tomorrow, I'll bring a camera,
and ask someone else to take a photo of me so you can see, not only where I'm at,
but what I'm up to. Unless it's raining.
When I mentioned phone sex, these YouTube videos have some of that feeling,
like part of it is jerking off by myself with technology. Guitar video porn.
I need some chords and drums and bass, rhythm, to work off of. I really do. That's all I've ever done.
When I first saw these videos, I was surprised to see how I'm playing while I'm standing up and moving around.
I really can't dance or move around for real, having so little space, but I'm not standing still.
Songsters, that would be a nice play on words for a band name for you.
If you saw those videos, would you audition me? My singing was too quiet, almost not singing.
