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JEE, thanks, it looks already a little bit more, to the object I had in mind

Yes, I do believe in PARANORMAL things. There is the phenomenon of DEJA VU to start, you see something, and you are convinced you saw it before, but you were never there before.

In combination with my job, I followed for about 2 years a course, with 5, 6 other persons, in private, given by a skilled HYPNOTIST and believe it or not, I saw "things" that you can't explain.
The most fascinating fact is "regression", under hypnosis, you go back in time, I DID SEE, AND I USED IT TOO, AND THIS IS NOT SOME KIND OF JOKE OR BULL****, BUT THE REALITY.
It can even result, into a situation, like "another, earlier life. It is difficult to believe, and even more difficult to understand and accept, there are people, under hypnosis, speaking a language that they don't speak, and more, they start to speak "old English, or old France", languages you will only find in dusty libraries. They even described houses, castle's, and scientists did explore this, like a woman was telling that, somewhere in the middle ages, she lived in a castle, in England, they had to escape because they were under heavy attack, using a secret underground path, 2-3 kilometres long, ending at a specific point.
The scientists didn't find a castle, just green grass, but what they saw, looking around, were objects who were described very accurate. MORE: THEY DID FIND THE SECRET TUNNEL.
This caused a change in me. Since the hypnosis sessions, I am getting more and more convinced that reincarnation exists, and although this course was 20 years ago, I need just a few hours to refresh my memory, and there I go. I used it a few times, because it "eats" time and was not so easy to combine with my other work. I can only tell, it is working. I kid, 9 years old, refused to eat a lot of things, like meat, vegetables, and the parents became more or less desperate, somebody must have told them that I was able to hypnotise, and starting very sceptic, it was years ago, it turned in a great success within 3 months. Unfortunately, I had to refuse people, because as I told, you need about 90 minutes.
Sometimes, I am thinking having this skill, that it's a pity that I don't use it. Everybody can learn this skill, it is all turning around "suggestions", who are very close to the truth. I stop now, because if I continue, I will have a 40 pages manuscript.

About Jimi Hendrix, I just now that he was born in Seattle, and was a mix of Afro-American, Cherokee, Irish. When he was small (and Christmas trees were tall, sorry, I couldn't help it, to write the first line of the 1th of May, by the BEE GEES), he was a very shy boy, and they often called him or little Jimi, or Buster. btw I have a few books on him. His first attempt to play the guitar was playing "air guitar" sometimes using a wooden piece or broom.
He received his first guitar at the age of 11 (if somebody owns that guitar, he doesn't have to work for the rest of his life), I think I mentioned it somewhere, about 3 years ago, surfing on eBay, they sold a neck of a Fender, 100% real Hendrix piece, and after only 3 of the 10 days, the price was already around 25.000$, for a guitar neck!!!!!!!!!!!! that  belonged to Jimi, a sorry, stupid neck from a "smashed guitar"
Talking about BURNING his guitar, it happened not more than 5 times.
His first electric guitar was a Supro Ozark 1560 S, never heard about this guitar.
After leaving the army (he was fired), he played with other musicians, like BB king, little richard, and going to New York, he played a lot with a certain Curtis Knight. Back in 1965 he formed his first band Jimmy James and the Blue Flames. He and his band performed a lot in at that time, don't know if it still exists, the village clubs. I think that Bob Dylan started in such a clubs too.
A lot of known, and less knowned musicians saw his talent, but in fact, he never had a lot of success in his HOMELAND, personaly I am convinced that this happened in 50% of the cases, by the jealousy of fellow musicians. He was still shy and modest, and as it happens very often, once on stage even the most shy person is transforming almost in an other person, like Jekyll and Hyde.
His GODS were Eric Clapton, Beck. What didn't really work out in the USA, became a dream in Europe, Great Britain.  Spotted by the still very well known ex-animal bass player, spotted him, observed him, and they made an agreement: Chas: manager and Jimi: his artist. Starting at that time in a music scene in England, dominated by the Who, the Beatles, Pages and Claptons, it was suddenly changed by an Afro-American guy, who, once on stage, transformed in an almost "paranormal" guitar player, showing tricks and a "never seen before" way to play the guitar.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience Band, with Mitch Mitchell on drums and Noel Redding on bass, they started playing in Clubs, breaking record after record. Personally I think that the way he approached his axe, meaning the SHOW ELEMENT, like playing with his teeth had at least a very PROMINENT role on the way to stardom. I even think to remember me that in the beginning, he didn't like to sing at all. Shy as Jimi was, he was convinced that his voice was bad. But they convinced him.
The "shy factor" made him also an easy prey for people with more "criminal" intentions. What I do know is that people, shy, uncertain, not self assured are an easy prey as I wrote here above. That fact has NOTHING to do with his, tremendous almost not from this planet, skill. It did affect his health, and it must be VERY, VERY difficult when you are in that position to resist all the special things, being treated as an Emperor. THAT IS A PROBLEM, FOR MANY YOUNG SUPER ARTISTS, a lot of people with so called good intentions, so called friends are SHARKS.
History repeats always it self, see Elvis Presley, buying friendship with expensive gifts.
Both are dead, both where in their style probably the greatest, and both died, in particular, because they wanted to be loved by every single person on Earth, not so obvious.
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  Some people are genial if they are able to use their skill.
  Some people are so sensitive, desperately seeking for happiness and peace in their live.
  Some people, unable to live in the real world, have the skill to change into a prominent, not               shy person, like we turn a switch, they are complete 100% different once on stage, but once the show is over, only reality is there again, transforming them back into who they are.
   But only a few people, talking about artists, are able to live a normal life.

Thank John, and Guitaristhelp. I like to post a topic about how many members have also an instrument in their nick.
On some topic, I wrote, and I don't lie, even the fun factor included, that in reality I am a very actif lazy man. I studied a long time, and when it is really interesting, I know almost everything and very fast. I saw your definitions, and the way you write open G, open D ... there is one thing I regret: the fact I never studied music. But since I'm here on Chordie, a lot of things go really a lot more easy, and I learned more than in the past 25 years. As soon as they started talking about blues, and THE SCALES, I stopped my video or I closed my book. A little confession: I noticed, also here, that I was using already pentatonics, without knowing it. Since I am at home for the rest of my life, I have only 2 real friends, and 20 friends, I play every week with one of my 2 best friends. He is drummer, but also a guitar player, and he learned me to keep my rhythm we also play quit often blues, in different "keys", My question is do you have interesting tips, where you learn to play blues, knowing my character, a little bit lazy. More specific, I've always been like that, with a minimal effort getting the maximum results.

I just looked at JamPlay.com, and I have to give congratulations to the person who realised this. You have a crystal clear high quality image, and I just looked 50".
Very Interesting

Jerome thanks for your answer, I am not a theoretical guy, I studied almost everything I could to become what I am, even sports, the fact is that I am, what I call a very lazy active person, strange expression, but that's about who I am. I am probably, like I was at the University, a guy who almost didn't need to study and succeeded every year. Even the fact that I want to play 10 times better, I want it all, and today if possible, wishful thinking is the correct name. I can't help it, even sitting here the whole 24 hours a day at home, I am always busy. BUT I started , miracle, oh miracle, to practise the pentatonic scale. I have books AND videos to learn the blues, but I know it is me, I start, to give up 10 minutes later. I learn more on CHORDIE, in 1 week than I did with my nose in books. I just wanted to know if, lazy as I am, there are sites, where these things are explained very good? I even started to try tabs, and it works, the pentatonic, I played it like nothing, because I played it that way, without knowing that it was pentatonic.
You writings and the way you explain things are really fantastic, your theory too. My theory was that in a song we have 7 basic chords A B C D E F G, 7 minor Am Bm Cm Dm Em Fm Gm, and 7 7th chords A7 B7 C7 D7 E7 F7 G7 = 21 different sounds. I use a lot more, but about the diminished chords, using the same chords, you only get a few different chords.
It's really time to change myself, but I am afraid I am lost, I had never the intention to become a guitar god, but it keeps me dreaming. TWO things I still like to learn before I'm 85 years old: fingerpicking and maybe playing guitar solos.
Thanks a lot

I receive every month a Dutch magazine, called "De Gitarist", but there ain't no CD's included.
Those CD's are they useful to improve your skill, are they used to follow the song playing guitar.
I am always interested in these kind of magazines. Are they only available in the UK, and if so, can I subscribe them?

what I told is real, but I can't remember me where I found that item.
I know true or false, that some people, with a different sexual taste, do behave themselves by looking "macho", see Village People, see also the "gay parades"
Why? I don't know.
I only know that a lot of homosexuals are very active in everything related with art. Fashion, like Versace, music, ballet, and so much more.
Being a man of science, I do not have an explication concerning this. I just know that the artistic centre is located in the brains, who have 2 hemi spheres. I think it's in the right one, where you will find also the centre of emotion, aggressivity. Did you see one flew.. with Jack Nicholson, at the end he was a living vegetable, because for decades, the most extreme treatment was "lobectomie", poking through the nose, reaching the frontal lobe, and destroying it. Am I happy that medicines, and especially surgery are evoluating so fast, that an intervention 2 months ago is different. It is hard to believe. I am convinced that, and it will not last longer than 10 years, they can cure people who are paralysed.

Well, number one is written.
CHATTING is CHATTING, and as you told, it is for probably a lot of us a way out, and it should be serious and funny. This is the only place where we can post more personal items, or stories.
From every corner, or every approach here music will be always the centre, and we turn around that centre.
I can tell you already now, that I would feel me a little bit lonely, without this chat corner, just because of the contacts you can make, meeting soul mates approaching each other trough music.
Every person is unique BUT equal, and has to be respected.
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IF YOU DON'T RESPECT YOUR SELF YOU WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO RESPECT SOMEONE ELSE