This is mostly for my brother Pete who has unsuccessful tried to help me become a decent guitar player. 90 percent of the songs I bang away on, he taught me when we were in Junior and High School.
A friend of mine on the musician alias at work sez, somewhere in a thread way too long to repeat:
"After watching the street musician vid, I pinpointed what the problem was in my mind: over ornamentation. A problem common in jazz as well, I’m afraid. As a singer, I’m impressed by singers with good breath control and range, but you can put the audience to sleep holding that high C for 5 minutes-it just becomes noise going nowhere. It might be different if you’re singing a song about a person engaged in a long period of waiting, mourning, trying, whatever, but ability alone doesn’t cut it. And it can be quite daunting, when you compare your own talent and its limitations to the plethora of other musicians out there performing-especially if you tend to isolate yourself.
I’m reminded of an old band leader of mine. He held the common audience in contempt; he was playing for the musicians (real or imagined) in the crowd. He wanted to impress them with his self taught guitar playing, his self taught ragtime piano, etc. When the audience treated us like background music he would go into a rage and show them with a kamikaze ragtime attack to show them what was what…. LOL"
Myself, I thought this was a nice piece. But then I’m not a professional musician, I just play one on TV. 
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