A few of my favorite things

There are assumptions and articles of faith that may be hundreds of years old, but they don't work anymore because people ask questions, on the internet, and discover that other people have the same questions.  And because its easy to do the research now, compared to even a hundred years ago, we can quickly discover that these assumptions are groundless, that the assumptions are in fact just coyotes frantically overextending their run off the cliff, high over the desert floor.  Our culture in this sense is a lot like an eight-year-old child: Lots of things happened to us when we were four, and while we were conscious and present through that growth our brains just weren't ready to store them, and so the events underlying our current behavior are a bit of a mystery, and a lot of them we just don't remember.  But we're finally starting to put things together.

For the next few posts I want to talk about a few I've recently come across.

Happy New Year

I had a guitar teacher last year tell me that Wes Montgomery's switch to block chords halfway through any piece was notorious among modern players.  His comment was accompanied by much eye-rolling.

OK.  I guess.