zen"At the end, which is also the begining, I think there's an absolute rule:

Your tone is inside your own fingers, not inside the methods"

"Nothing is absolute" is already absolute.. but if you find your tone into water, this symbolism is ok for me.

Yeah right.

Fingers are an illusion created by the mind, and sound takes its source in the mind, not the illusory mind of separateness but the source of meaning itself.

So there.

Got my JS1200 today. There's something to it. It's beautiful to look at, and although I wish the price was an illusion, the guitar is physically present.

I am missing some notes at the top (22 frets only) but the sound I wanted is here. The neck is not what my illusory fingers are used to but this thing sings anyway. And it screams more easily than the other one too.

I think I can develop a relationship with this very red guitar.

Candy apple they call it.

The redness and chrome made me think of a ZZ Top kind of hot rod car, but come to think of it, they could have called it blood red just as well. It's a very simple look, but very beautiful. Quite a contrast from the J.Custom (another red guitar, but a ot more ornate, with see-through paint).

As i'm lumberjack, i have to say that i think that the illusion is mind.

Fingers near a chainsaw are absolutly real. But each one his vision.

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Pathology report on Chris is back, no cancer after all, no further treatments necessary, he's doing good. He said to tell everyone again thank you very much for the prayers and good thoughts and wishes, they meant a lot to him, and to me.

Tracie,

I'm very happy for Chris and you.

I'm a parent of a seven year old. My boy is just fine but I have a dangerous long term illness. I know the anguish of possible separation. I understand the sleepless nights you must have had. You know how a parent knows what another parent feels.

Sorry to hear that your mum also has a trial to go through. I'm sure that she is so happy though, for your boy. This will help her.

When I was a guitar teacher (long story) I had a student boy who had leukaemia. He was so adorable. So hard working, committed, intelligent, and always a pleasure to be with.

He did not make it. Although music is a great healer, it surely helped him along the way, but he didn't make it. It was very sad.

Chris has done very well to beat this. You must be so happy. And him so lucky to have you.

Igneousiceman : Glad you agree. I'm not sure to be absolutly right in front the weird chasms of mind, but i'm fuckin right in a certain way.

SRV Lenny is a good illustration, even if, of course, brain is used to compose, but in that case, feeling & touch come first, that is to say, body.

Zen:"absolute" silly word really, i wonder who invented the concept

Happy 200 to me !

Roy : yeap, it has taken very long time for Stevie to find his own way beyond the blackblue & Hendrix legacy he got. & Beyond drugs & alcohol, as you know.

In Step seems to me the way of freedom. But Helicopter stopped everything.

The absolute.. hum.. the concept might be basicly religious.. but the feeling.. i don't know, i would say aesthetic.. EROS & THANATOS.

Spinoza has said : "Only the absolute can create the absolute". Spinoza.

So, i'm gonna to let the absolute to the absolute.

Zen:strange thing a living dream, all 2 easy can be taken from y...dunno if i believe in fate, seems t me once the dream is realized in total something puts the lights out

tone...maybe b4 fingers from the soul

Roy : yeap... ahahahah... holy roy..

now, i've to put wood onto fire... lol.. circles.. circles.