If I weren’t me, I would want to be a male guitar player, a fast one – like Satriani or Steve Vai. It kills me. I love it so much but not just to listen, I want to be it. This energy is driving me insane – one thing I can not be is a male musician – it’s different from being a female musician – and I can not be it!!!
Is there such thing as music gender envy? Am I the only one under the sun?
Everything else is perfect. Yeah, when I was growing up with my (male) cousins and playing toy cars and soldiers, I wanted to be a boy – girls annoyed the hell out of me, they were gossiping non-stop and I did not relate to their wasteful baby talk.
But then I did grow up and discovered that a boy I wasn’t – and did not want to be, such nonsense!
Except when I hear that guitar – and I just want to live a parallel life being that every now and then – but I can’t!
July 4, 2008 at 9:35 am
its surely nothing to do with sex, what about equallity, yet you seem to be willing to destroy all that and say that girls aren’t as good as boys,
is it not just more to do with the histiry, rock n roll has always been more male dominated
don’t mean women are less
sister rossetta tharpe, legend of blues guitar, i’m offended for her and all female guitarists
i wanna be jack white but its nothing to do with his sex, its that he is the best guitarist on the planet
July 4, 2008 at 9:47 am
Hm – I was talking about something entirely different. Saying girls are worse than boys would be the craziest thing to say, I actually think we are better :))) Well both genders (and everything in-between) are necessary and it’s all in harmony – I was, again, talking about something different. Anybody can be good at anything they choose – that’s not even a question – it’s not what I am trying to get at. In this particular case, nothing to be offended about. As much as I am not PC, this post is as innocent as happy children dancing in the rain.
July 4, 2008 at 10:49 am
I think I understand what you mean. I once heard a girl say that a guitar is an extension of a man’s, er tools shall we say. Women can play just as well. There is something about a man and the connection he has with a guitar. I have that type of connection with a piano I think. It’s never that a woman can’t accomplish that same connection (and I know you’re not saying that). It just seems that men may have gotten to it first ;-)
July 6, 2008 at 2:49 pm
I think I understand what you are saying, but I think you can have that. Maybe not exactly the same as Satch and Vai, but take thier confidence, comfort and absolute love and personality as an influence to your own art.
I wish I could be more like Frank Zappa! But I would never want to clone or copy him! I just want to be so “me” that it’s unmistakable!
Man or woman, they both have thier advantages and disadvantages. We as artists need to be the paradox of being exactly what we are and yet transending all of it!
I think I’d better go meditate!
July 6, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Um…I think ‘better go medidate’ is a good advice to us all :) As far as borrowing influence to my art – I have my own personality, and with all due respect to Satriani and Vai – I don’t want to be them in real life, and I don’t need to express their personality – I have enough of my own and it’s no worse than theirs – but it’s just those moments when I want to express male musical essence and I can’t (because…because it’s different)