Re: Flyin' Blind
These is some irony here that I would like to mention regarding the visit with Paul. For many years I wanted to know just what it was that Red Shea was doing on the guitar in "Song For A Winter's Night." I could never figure it out and when I heard that Red was giving lessons I was looking forward to the day when I would ask him to take me on as a student only to learn how he made that sound work. I'm clearly not a lead guitar person and that's really all I wanted to learn how to play. In the meantime of course having connected with Paul, and he being a student of the master showed me how it was done. I wasn't sure if I could really pull it off and this weird feeling of failure cast it's shroud over me and when I came back to Vancouver I left it alone. The irony being when the time had come and the shroud disappeared I picked up the guitar to give it a shot it flawlessly made it's way through. Totally mesmerizing. That was was the same day we lost Red Shea. All very sad. So today the capo will be on the seventh fret in the "D" position and I'm going to take that baby on. This one's for you Red. RJ.
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