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[Stephen]

I took two stabs at playing guitar on this, and thought I had something that was ok, then I listened to this version, and realized I hadn't made a single improvement.

I think this tune stands tall as it is.

Thanks for letting me give this a try George, I'm gonna leave this alone as Diego suggested.
Regards,
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[georgeinar]

Well, thanks for trying anyway. After I listened to your songs, I realized that while this song is slow and smooth, it's not really the style you do ordinarily. And it's better to plan a song for guitar rather than just try to slap it over the top of something that already sounds comlete and full enough. Hope things are going well otherwise.
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[ellll]

Hi George,

I am trying to get all the songs a bit more to encourage activity, as well as to enhance my own listening, in which I am not too good on todays sounds... .

I think I agree with a few who spoke of not changing the vocal for this...It has a kind of match that really works...I like the kind of cold detached feel the speaker shows...keeping emotion in a much stronger hold than I ever could...SOLID and to the point..( even though we suspect there is a much larger emotional price in the depths of this new "world symphony").

In fact its private to a point...We except in the lament, that is not really a lament...but what do we know...? Nothing more. It says something about the way we live..love...and come and go today, doesn't it........

Best!!! John...(ellll)

[georgeinar]

Thank you so much, John for those comments on the message here. I tried so hard to make this sound personal and yet not specific, some have said it sounded like saying good-bye to someone at the end of their life, others, a love lost, I actually was picturing saying goodbye to very dear close friends who have moved far away and we have lost touch after all the years, I was trying to do a bit of acting, the way you act when you say goodbye and you're trying to hold all the emotions inside because you say it all in your eyes or your posture, or just from mind to mind that other person going away just somehow knows what you're feeling without your having to express much of anything directly. It was something of a balancing act that I thought if the music is profound enough in its emotion, then the weeping can be done there in the synths etc and the voice will simply carry the message. And I learned from writing class that as much as you can make things universal, the more that people will find it personal and identify with it.
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[ellll]

Indeed,

Well done my friend, for it is as most of us thought...!!! so you truly have captured us..

I can say clearly that I fall in spiritual "like or love" (not real or physical just spiritual, or platonic they usually say)..too much...for then they leave, and I am heart broken again...BUT thats what life is, isn't it...AND:

The web has brought this into SHARP focus indeed, and your neat song is right there when we need it!!! It is strange because as many realize, attachments with both sexes online are dependant upon a DEEP understanding brought about through the understanding of WORDS...as we never see the persons we learn to respect, and yes, even love.., and often are more profound than those that happen in our daily lives...this is a NEW world we face...

We will all encounter it if we haven't already..and there is even protocol for it..(see The Psychology of Cyberspace..A prof. at Rider University...just put it in your search...We have a copy of many classes at home with us)

And war...this Iraq situation has taken away family and friends...inc. a few friends of mine...we learn to cope...and you have reminded us to look at that issue!!

Well Done indeed...John (ellll)