Lateralus

...I waaaant tooo rock! ROCK! Anyone else think of Twister Sister when they read the title?

Babyshambles - Down In Albion, and The Blinding EP, respectively.

Without a doubt one of my favourite posts ever. =D>

I rather enjoy it, enough to call it a pastime anyway. I've done a good few of the Munro's, and have done the Tour du Mont Blanc twice.

How come you're so up your own [wagon] about everything you do?

What's the big deal? The tab websites will still have the chords tabbed out. You can read the chords from the tabs.

The Smiths - Louder Than Bombs The Smiths - Meat is Murder The Libertines - The Libertines Bill Hicks - Salvation (Live at Oxford) The Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future R.E.M. - Automatic for the People

In movies like Ace Ventura and Dumb & Dmber the whole over-the-top thing is funny, but in his serious films like Spotless Mind its a little awekward. He's definatly one of those hit-miss kind of guys. I thought Carey was great in Spotless Mind. He was awesome in Man On The Moon too.

Skin after it's been in the sun for a while, it smells like it's been cooked a little bit. The smell of rain evaporating out of tarmac, certain perfumes. The most comforting smell for me though is the smell of myself - What my bed smells like and the like.

An aspiring rockstar who was just beginning to break into the mainstream before his life was tragically cut short. I'd be missed terribly, and people would talk about me like I was much better than I was.

Walk to bar, walk back from bar, lift pint to mouth. I'm perspiring just thinking about it.

Bill Hicks... Applicable to any conversation.

My great-grandfather stole my last name from a family he was living with for a while. Despite that, I'm still quite attatched to it. I'd want, and expect my wife to take my name.

Some good lyrics can just be fun, don't need to be deep. Good social commentary for the time though.

You don't need to know any of that stuff when you're learning. Why learn what a perfect or augmented 4th is, when you're just gonna read along with a tab? The most important thing when beginning is to play songs you enjoy playing in order to get your fingers used to being on the fretboard. Understanding the neck is important, yes, but you have to get hooked first. Also, Mixolydian is a mode, not a scale. I'm not quite sure what is what since I've heard the terms interchangeably, and since I technically don't know any scales besides the Chromatic and Pentatonic Major/minor I can't really talk. It's also not really my problem that people don't learn stuff like that early on, but that they don't learn it all and then profess themselves to be musicians. To me, a musician is someone versed in music, and being versed in a way of writing that caters to ease of reading but lacks more intricate expressions does not readily apply. And when you just read tabs, what incentive is there to learn anything about theory at all? By playing along with tabs you'll develop a want to understand the instrument which you're playing. When people decide they want to learn to play guitar, it's so they can play along with songs they like. Learning those songs by tab and then playing along with them will not only help you improve, but it'll make you feel good. You need little morale boosts like that to sustain your will to learn. Your want to learn theory will come when people decide they're bored of just reading along with something, and want to understand what's actually happening on the neck. I don't see why an absolute beginner should need to know any theory before they're sure that playing guitar is for them. Also, modes can be thought of simply as scales, but that's not what they are. They're 'scales' with a different tonal centre. Mixolydian, for example, has the same intervals as the major scale (WWHWWWH), but it starts on the fifth interval of the major scale, not the first. So the Mixolydian mode is WWHWWHW. So the G Mixolydian mode has the same set of notes as the C Major scale.

You don't need to know any of that stuff when you're learning. Why learn what a perfect or augmented 4th is, when you're just gonna read along with a tab? The most important thing when beginning is to play songs you enjoy playing in order to get your fingers used to being on the fretboard. Understanding the neck is important, yes, but you have to get hooked first. Also, Mixolydian is a mode, not a scale.

The Libertines - Can't Stand Me Now Deep Purple - Highway Star Muse - Knights of Cydonia

Disagree on both accounts. Vai is a better player than Satch, although I prefer Satch. As for the lacking of soul: Joe Satriani - Always With Me, Always With You Steve Vai - For The Love of God John Petrucci - Lost Without You Saying Satch lacks soul is an especially bad call, almost every track he's ever written conveys a pretty strong feeling.

Off topic: That made me cringe terribly.

A belligerent ignoramus took the nick I first attempted to (re)sign up with. Fortunately I've grown to like this one.

Tab is perfectly fine for an absolute beginner to be playing with. When you first get a guitar, you just want to play some songs. So I'd suggest that this guy ignores your advice, learns some songs, and has some fun. Having fun is the key to sticking with an instrument - Don't bore yourself with theory before you're ready for it.

What would work better at advocating a change than open demonstration of disobedience to a law? The reason governments are eventually going to cave on Cannabis laws isn't because of new research and studies they may find, it'll be because of pressure from the users. Basically, if there becomes enough people who use cannabis, the government will give in.

If it's used responsibly, I don't see a downside to it. I'm a 'user' or whatever you want to call it, and I've done fine (some would go as far to say I've done well) both academically and socially. Like anything out there, it's all about using it in moderation. Don't smoke if there's things you need to do, and don't smoke all day everyday - That would be stupid and boring.

It's called a talk box, Peter Frampton is well known for using one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_box

It's possible you're thinking of the 'many worlds' theory of quantum mechanics. Basically, a new universe is created where a decision has a certain outcome. The easiest way to explain it is through the Schroedinger's cat example, i.e. in one universe the cat lives, in another it dies. This leads on to something called Quantum Immortality though. Simply put, you could potentially live forever through a range of universes. For example, if you were to be shot and died in one universe, but lived in another, and so on.