The harmonic zen came and went today. Finally got a guitar tuned enough to practice some Bach. Found some pieces I haven't tried to play since I was 19. And I still can't play any of them well. Since I play guitar backwards and all my thumb is on the wrong side of my hand. Amazing that I can pull of the first half of the Bouree at all. The second half is meant to contort the right-handed player. The leftie is done for. So I left well enough alone and found some new harmonic progressions of my own. That started to turn into a tune - you know like something you can get into the groove to. That's a couple of really cool new tunes in a couple of months. This breaks a long artistic dry spell. Another one or two and I'll have to get the old band back together and cut a new CD.

The first tune kinda' came to me a few weeks back whilst I was tuning all these guitars. It's kindof Kottke'esque Van Halen. On acoustic guitar it comes out more Kottke'esque. On electric, a bit more Eddie. On the jazz box it's just a tad bit Joe Pass. It's more a new system of finger-picking than any one song. It's a system that works for us lefty-righty guitarists and no other and it sounds way cool. An acoustic blues jitty that just dances along until everybody's too tired to dance no mo'.

The second tune is (hey, I'm doin' the best I can to try and describe them to you) kindof like Joe Satriani trying to do a Pete Townshend song. Also kinda' reminds me of a Skorpion song but I can't remember which at the moment. Sorry, but that's the best description I can give you.

I sold the collector's edition Förnikatör guitar. I offered him the generic version or the house label and he chose the house brand hands down. Should probably keep his name and number. That guitar might be worth a fortune someday... He had already been in here last week and snuck a peek at the label. He wanted it. Had to have it.