All My Life I've Been Searching For Something...

Play Guitar and Live Forever

As an aside...when I created this blog, I decided to make it a bit more impersonal by using references to Foo Fighter's songs. I feel that I tend not to post a lot of highly personal topics, or at least am not comfortable with that so I decided to take my name out of the title. I picked the title because I think a lot of blogs talk about life's obstacles and how someone threw a "monkey wrench" in your plans.

Anyways, as the title of this blog alludes to, I'm going to talk a bit about guitar. When I picked up the guitar and started trying to play it again, it was a way of unwinding. My perspective about playing guitar is more for songs and the lyrics. I enjoy guitar riffs and such, but I need to see the combination of the instrument with vocals and lyrics to make the song. If I learn a song, I usually learn it while learning the words and then hearing the words in my head as I play. Over time I'll learn the vocals part and sing along with it to make it "complete." Its really uncomfortable to play and sing full songs in front of other people as I more play for myself and get all self conscious in front of others, but it might be fun to do so with other people if I get to play rhythm and someone else learns the lead guitar part.

Also, because I tend to play guitar more for unwinding I've leaned toward a lot of slower acoustic songs. Lately I've been trying to get some Oasis songs such as "She's Electric", "Live Forever", and "Don't Look Back in Anger."

I've linked to Live Forever below performed in a duet by Chris Martin of Coldplay and Noel Gallagher of Oasis. Its a great performance and I read an interesting story, although I don't know if its true. Apparently, this song in response to Nirvana. Nirvana has a lot of self loathing songs and references suicide, which Noel disagreed with because Nirvana was one of the biggest bands in the world and could influence a lot of people with its lyrics. And so, Noel answered with "Live Forever." I think its an inspiring song and one that a lot of people wish they could write.