ok remixed the song , let me know how it sounds

strange remixed

Clarky - Thanks for the e-mail, man; glad you liked the stuff!!!! I'm listening to 'Space Time...' now. It's fucking badass!!!! Love your work!!! I really like the Larry Carlton vibe at the end...

I was happy when I read in the newsltter: Thinking outside of the usual conventions.

I'm always debating about Joe's music with friends because they keep saying that soloist instrumentalist never leave places for the other instruments than their own. While at some point for some artists they are right, I kinda NEED to have Joe's music in my life. KEEP IT COMING.

Hey Jimbo...how's it going?

Genius's concept.

Part I

Two ways to analyse this concept : in principle (idea of reason), or empirically (idea coming from experience). A lot of possible relations between this both ways.

The both get already a general idea, historically & philosophically uncorvered.

Zen: yeah pretty weird, hotmail is still actin up, Europe prob? not sure, kinda fluctuates between i can read a mail & the other, no idea, no virus on my comp either, got a lil worried bout goin through that hard drive change again

No real secrets for clean sounding playing, i took the Allan Holdsworth approach by keeping all the fingers evenly spaced & as close too the string as possible & mixed it with a piece of cloth at 3rd fret, it does take a lot of work & I do mean A LOT,works for the faster lines although i need a bit more distance from the string for tackling bends to get bite in the sound,i hold my third finger pointing to the sky sometimes to give more power to my little finger,kinda shoves the strength for stretching.Hand workouts at my present work “construction” fail to give any really good results, although I find it helpful to imagine & I mean microscopic, what you want to achieve technically before working towards it, I visualize in my minds eye exactly what i need/want & then practice towards my goal, this works for me as does playing at 5am b4 work, seems to boost muscle memory & tone the arm & hand muscles.Probably useless info for y bro

How i practice for my clean sound, I go the other direction taught, I never at first practice in time with a metronome, i play slow for 10 minutes, warm up the hands and later play for as fast & long as I can, when i feel pain, i stop & keep doing this till I have to get the fuck out the house & knock some walls down, then play with a kit sample for 10 mins in any tempo I choose, I,m always late for WORK,l,After work is a dead loss, my brain & body exhausted I only write or have a few beers

I,ll get back to y on the other stuff, Sat work sucks, I,m off t bed bro, love t J

Part II

In occident, the Genius's concept is supposed to come from antique Greece.

Part III

Almost always, the genius are really & deeply recognized as genius, that is to say for their essential contribution to the universal progress in their domain, some times after their death.

Part IV

Curiously, almost all the minorities in Occident can create a social or an antisocial organism to be recognized as minority.

Part V

A)

I'm not at all able to describe exhaustively the story of the Genius's concept.

During all the story of occidental though (i precise because i don't really know the others), looks like that this notion is before all irrational. & all that i've understand, after reading a lot of aesthetic theories, is the fact that this concept express before all a creativity's force, & not at all a psychologic quality. Nothing to see with haughtiness or self-esteem.

B)

The first great rational analysis of the Genius's concept has been done by the very great EMMANUEL KANT (18th century). After have spent a very big part of his life to try to understand the Art, & brought a lot to all the next generations of thinkers & artists with his analysis of aesthetic judgment, & with the great disntinction of the Beautiful (all the Joe's music, or a sunrise for example) & the Sublime (the Van Halen's live sonates, or the Niagara's falls for example), Kant has finished by understand that the process of artistic creativity is absolutely irreductible to the Reason. Important point : Kant is the philosopher of the Reason. The genius is become with his theory a metaphysic notion :

"The genius is the natural force which gives rules to the Art."

If you want to deepen, you can read Kant. That's the first great rational criterion in principle of this irrational notion. Of course, this criterion opens a lot of questions, problems, & minsunderstandings (of which the confusion of metaphysic point & psychologic point). The more beautiful example of all that is the Romanticism.

Part VI :

A)

The ultimate Kant's point is : the great Art is built by the genius, from masters to disciples. & the disciples surpass their masters, & become masters & ..... That's an idea very 18th. The Art is great or isn't. (An idea that i don't share. The Art can be "little"). The consequence is this one : there's the story of the genius, & the story of all the others. I personaly think that there's some very good intuitions in all that.

As i've said, the Kant's theory, as all great theory, opens a lot of difficulties. The genius point, ultimate point of his theory, is one of the begining's point of Romanticism : the subjectivity who expressed herself & the world starting from her own creative power. The Romantics are very great creators in general. Hoffman, Wagner, Goethe, Wilde, Hugo, Chopin, for example, are incredible. But the prob is that with the Romanticism, the genius has become a banal value. During all the 19th century, all the romantics have expressed that they were genius. Of course, in France, we have only one Hugo, only one Maupassant, & only one Baudelaire. Consequence of all that : during the 20th century, the genius is almost becomed a taboo.

B)

Bored by all these artists who were saying that they are genius, starting to surpass Schopenhauer & Kant, & wanting to break the irrationality of this notion, the philosopher Nietzche has done a very good analysis of the Genius's concept in "Human, to much human" (i'm not sure of the translation). The genius is in Art the expression of the strongest's law. The genius are those who have built incredible rules, & with who the others can't compete. That's an empiric analysis. As you should know, the end of Nietzsche isn't very rational.

C)

As you can see, this notion is always irrational & obscure. But during the 19th, an other philosopher, Soren Kierkeggard, true genius of philosophy & dialectic, has realized the big difference between him a lot of others thinkers : they were looking for, he was finding.

D)

Kant, Nietzsche, Kierkeggard are three of the greatest genius of the philosophy.

Part VII

delicat part....

Well, i personaly keep the three conceptions of Kant, Nietzsche & Kierkeggard as the great searching's horizon.

I believe that the Art is before all the struggle for expression & creativity to become a form of form, that is to say to give a form to reality.

My idea is that the genius is a very deep & obscure creative concentration of universality in the singularity.

My criterions are emotive:

1) Before all the creative inspiration & his total & irrational innovation's power. That's the absolute point, the absolute difference between the genius & all the other artists, as good as they are.

2) An emotional force which combines sensuality & imagination, & reason.

3) The deep organisation of this force with a singular balance of feeling & though.

4) So, the production of new forms & new technics.

Zen: Bro when y get on a roll! its so Fred,lol