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Silly me, tried to download "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", from Concert for George, via Rolling Stone.

Free downloads are good.

DRM, not so good. Especially when there's a separate web hit involved. To get a license. To listen to a free download.

And then they break the stupid thing.

I'll bet it'll sound pretty good, someday. I'd very likely buy the CD if I could hear this -- say, in that nasty ol' MP3 format.

There's a gig. Tomorrow. I'm involved.

Honest.

Sticking to the completely trivial for now, as all I have room for in my head is that end of the spectrum, or the extremely serious end -- and who needs to hear what I have to say about all that? It's still all too much to wrap coherent thoughts around anyway...

So on the trivial side, staying within my capabilities... When did I become a country singer? Apparently it happened, at least in the view of various denizens of mp3.com. I've had a couple of acoustic things up there for a while (more to come, very soon, hopefully), and several people have added "The Simple Things" to their playlists. Country or country-rock playlists, almost all. Hmm. I mean yeah, it's two guys with acoustic guitars, but... I guess I'm biased because in my head, that song has a Motown-ballad vibe, with big round James Jamerson bass and a B3 carrying the day. To everyone else, something completely different seems to come across. Who knew? Guess I need to grow a mullet and quit rooting for Jeff Gordon.

Finally found an acoustic that I love as much as my Tele. I realize this means nothing to anyone else, but I'm really happy...

Some words of kindness for my main acoustic. Adding the Ovation saga.