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									What is your Holy Grail? - Opinions and Polls				            </title>
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                        <title>Re: What is your Holy Grail?</title>
                        <link>https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/what-is-your-holy-grail/paged/4/#post-320829</link>
                        <pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 05:03:51 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[The Star Spangled Banner (exactely the way Jimi played it at Woodstock) for an instrumental. For a lyrical song, probably something by Yngwei Malmsteen. (I recently heard this cat, oh my god...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[The Star Spangled Banner (exactely the way Jimi played it at Woodstock) for an instrumental. <br>For a lyrical song, probably something by Yngwei Malmsteen. (I recently heard this cat, oh my god!)]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/">Opinions and Polls</category>                        <dc:creator>Preacher</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Re: What is your Holy Grail?</title>
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                        <pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:17:58 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[something in the way she moves me by JTfor my wife.]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[something in the way she moves me by JT<br>for my wife.]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>Re: What is your Holy Grail?</title>
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                        <pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 03:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Mine is the delicious slide solo in U2&#039;s Bullet the Blue Sky.  It&#039;s one of the coolest songs I&#039;ve ever heard and it reminds me a lot of something the great Wes said a long time ago about Hen...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Mine is the delicious slide solo in U2's Bullet the Blue Sky.  It's one of the coolest songs I've ever heard and it reminds me a lot of something the great Wes said a long time ago about Hendrix's Star Spangled Banner.  It was so impressionable it stuck with me.  But he called Jimi's divebombs and little inter-note flourishes "the sound of bombs dropping and terror on the ground."  It was brilliant a brilliant statement.  I hear the same thing in the Edge's solo.  Much like Wes's statement I hear the overheard drone of a fighter and each time the Edge hammers that low E it's another bomb.  It's such a militant solo.  I wish I could achieve that kind of expression.]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>Re: What is your Holy Grail?</title>
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                        <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Hey...I just noticed my last post was #499. So, okay. Mow it&#039;s an even 500!  :roll: Cat]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hey...I just noticed my last post was #499. So, okay. Mow it's an even 500!  :roll: <br><br>Cat]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>Re: What is your Holy Grail?</title>
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                        <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:07:42 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Ya know, Ignar...you aren&#039;t kidding! (Let&#039;s hear it for Herr Streudle Boss!  :lol: ) If you DO screw up...make sure you do it again the next pass. This is entirely true. However...you better...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Ya know, Ignar...you aren't kidding! (Let's hear it for Herr Streudle Boss!  :lol: ) If you DO screw up...make sure you do it again the next pass. This is entirely true. However...you better hope the rest of the crew is ready to exploit the screw up when it comes around again...or as you go ahead and "lean into it" you'll be left hangin' out on that proverbial clothesline!<br><br>Cat]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>Re: What is your Holy Grail?</title>
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                        <pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 01:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Hahaha if I was capable of even playing the guitar, any song would be great to learn.

Sounds like you need to start playing some Free Jazz. Just repeat the really horrible notes and you&#039;ll ...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hahaha if I was capable of even playing the guitar, any song would be great to learn.

Sounds like you need to start playing some Free Jazz. Just repeat the really horrible notes and you'll be a star in the scene before you know it.  :lol:]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/">Opinions and Polls</category>                        <dc:creator>Ignar Hillström</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Re: What is your Holy Grail?</title>
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                        <pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Hahaha if I was capable of even playing the guitar, any song would be great to learn.]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hahaha if I was capable of even playing the guitar, any song would be great to learn.]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>Re: What is your Holy Grail?</title>
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                        <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[I learned to sing well by singing along to the Beatles 62-66.  If I could play the guitar along with as well, I&#039;d be feeling a holy something or another.

Yep...same here. &#039;Cept the singing ...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[I learned to sing well by singing along to the Beatles 62-66.  If I could play the guitar along with as well, I'd be feeling a holy something or another.

Yep...same here. 'Cept the singing wasn't what you'd call "well"...but in key, at least. So I figured I'd suggest this to my oldest (19) and WHAT was the reply???? "I don't really like The Beatles, Dad."<br><br>Now...as I drive around doing errands or whatnot the question's always under my breath: "What???? He what???"<br><br>Sheesh!<br><br>Cat]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>Re: What is your Holy Grail?</title>
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                        <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[I learned to sing well by singing along to the Beatles 62-66.  If I could play the guitar along with as well, I&#039;d be feeling a holy something or another.]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[I learned to sing well by singing along to the Beatles 62-66.  If I could play the guitar along with as well, I'd be feeling a holy something or another.]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>Re: What is your Holy Grail?</title>
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                        <pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Maybe &quot;little grails&quot;...or at least sips outta the chalice! I showed my youngest a VERY difficult set of chords that flow through the ubiquitous R/4/5 routine. In fact, the positioning doesn...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Maybe "little grails"...or at least sips outta the chalice! I showed my youngest a VERY difficult set of chords that flow through the ubiquitous R/4/5 routine. In fact, the positioning doesn't come any harder. It took him a week...but...shaky as it may be...he's got it. Listening to the other son's bass line he came up with for it caused me to unstrap my own guitar the other day and leave them to it. It was so much like the time I took the training wheels off their bikes and gave them that last push.<br><br>Coming up on #58 seems a bit easier. Ya GOTTA wonder from time to time "was it all worth it" as far as picking up a guitar rather than a law degree. You young guys just getting on in life will see what I mean when you, too, get there. I highly recommend a listen to the Deja Vu album (CSNY)...a true gem of composition and musicianship...most especially, "Teach Your Children".<br><br>Still, there's work to do. Next "little grail" is to see that they put some finesse into their hands. I mean, I'm just NOT hearing it. Holding a chord's right enough...but it's all in the touch, really. But this is tougher than I thought it would be. I've picked out some stuff for them to go over...like "On The Road" by Canned Heat. SIMPLE chordings but DIFFICULT finesse.<br><br>Yep...my Hold Grail's pretty much rounding out the fellas so they can feel what they play!<br><br>Cat]]></content:encoded>
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