piggybacking from Queen

I love the idea of YouTube! I strongly sympathize with those whose music is stolen and made public via the Internet, and I certainly do not watch all videos on these sorts of sites indiscriminately. I don't watch expose style reports about people, at all, and having watched far more than I ought to have of the interviews immediately before and after Freddie's death, enough to have a more than adequate impression of how it was for Freddy and his close friends during that time, I can do myself no good by dwelling any longer on this sad part of music history. It is enough to hear all the allusions to the pain and darkness of this time in the music of Queen from the 90's.

I really like this song, btw. I am listening to songs I have never heard, or heard of, on YouTube, as I write tonight, and right now it is "Why Don't We Try Again" by Brian May, a VH1 recording. Earlier it was a duet with a Sissel, who I will have hear more of. Maybe the reason I feel like I know him so well, from just the bits I have read of his soapbox pages is that his music 'clicks' with me, that he IS a sort of kindred spirit to me such that his music is so natural to my ear. It was alway his songs or John's that actually made the difference in keeping me alive through my deepest depressions, too. I enjoy Roger's music, and Freddie's, but it is more an entertainment and a diversion, rather than something I deeply relate to. Brian's Lost Horizon piece is one that the first time I heard it was like hearing a song I had always known, and could almost hear in the corner of my mind, and I still get a strong resonance with it.

I talked with Forrest tonight about building an electric guitar, and I think it sounds like an approachable task, though reading the Wikipedia article on electric guitars I know I have a huge learning curve to overcome on this one.