i used to have a therapist across the street from the art institute of chicago. especially the new modern wing was the "i'm never gonna be in a museum" wing. every freakin week.
took several classes there shortly thereafter. i alway took a route that took me to the other side of the building.

But it's all right.

That's all I ask.

It's keeping up with the left is where my issues lay.

If the shape of the arpeggio i simple, I can sweep all day long. Once you get into actual, usable sweeps, my left falls apart.

I love the 12 string guitar, but the moment I first saw Leo Kottke (in 1972!!), I knew there was a level to which I would never ascend.

One of the biggest thrills I ever got was shortly after his "Armadillo" album came out. I was visiting a friend in Vermont somewhere and brought a 12 string with me. I was playing it in some building on her campus, and some guy who had obviously never seen a photo of Kottke came up to me asked if I was by any chance Leo Kottke. I said, "no, but thanks for asking!"

in the Twin Cities in the late '60s. He was playing regularly in a coffee house near the University of Minnesota, and he was getting quite a reputation even then.

"I will never be that great" - no, the opposite, "I can be SHAKESPEARE..." or, "Why am I not being recognized as SHAKESPEARE?!1"

Or, "SHAKESPEARE?!1 -- pfft (compared to me)!1"

But I ramble...

Ain't no way I'll ever be that great. Even if I could go back and be 16 again, I just wouldn't have that highly refined sensibility.

will never be Mozart; we're just Salieri (actually, Salieri was underrated; he was a pretty good composer but Mozart is a tough act to follow).