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They still write that Elvis is still alive, like they also wrote that Paul McCartney was dead, because of the sleeve of the album abbeye road.
To conract spirits, I don't know, and I am very interessed in a lot of things who are called "paranormal." You have to admit that there are a lot of (strange) facts you can't explain.
I wanted to ask something, about haunted places. If you watch a movie, or read articles, I have the impression that the most of them are in England. I confess that I never visited a haunted house, and it is not because you see nothing that there IS NOTHING. Can people see a virus, using just their eyes? NO, but still it exists, example AIDS virus. I admit that I am open 100% for this very interesting item, and sometimes, when playing guitar, I have the impression, is it real or not?, that suddenly having a deceased artist in my mind, I start playing more in the style he used, and MORE, I have the impression that on some moments, I play twice as good, asking myself why. I hope to see more answers on this topic.
Greetings

Thanks chewy, I love this site everyone is equal, the older generation like me (52 y) have maybe more experience, and playing for years, we learn a lot from youngsters, who have another style. But 1 important fact will always return, THE LOVE FOR MUSIC AND GUITARS.
I don't know your age, but I admit, that my first guitar was a Gibson Les Paul Studio, in 1994, got it very cheap, and if you go to websites like www.music123.com or www.zzounds.com, you will really discover the guitar world. As it always is, you will find a lot of instruments, from cheap (but quit good) to expensive. There is no need to buy a new one, but it gives you a pretty good idea about all different instruments. Don't forget to visit the website of the guitar goeroe Gruhn, in Nashville.
www.gruhn.com. THIS ARE GUITAR SITES and not HUMBUCKER sites.
I have the luck to own a pretty nice collection, starting with changing the studio in 1997, for a PRS custom 24 full option. At that time here in Europe only a few people knew PRS. Until today, having Gibsons, Fender Tele (sounds incredible) in a light, dirty green colour, California Beach was the name of these kind of guitars, and only available in Europe. You had 2 strats and 1 tele, in limited production, and sorry for writing about this, my tele is a reissue from a telecaster 1952, and if you see the simplicity of the construction, I am still amazed hearing the sound.
I am more a PRS man, I have also a PRS SE Tremonti, and the SE series are affortable and the sound is real great.
I should give you also an advise to see what's going on, on eBay. It is still possible to do nice bussiness and you will also find humbuckers.
I hope that, if you love music and guitars, that you like these sites.
Keep looking for humbuckers, and as far as I know, on the Gibson site, you can hear the sound, and differences from a few humbuckers.

Hi again paranormal,  I am afraid that I had a similar problem. I never get farther than , at this moment, and 30 years ago. Did you know that somewhere outside, and I talk about  big names, that A LOT of musicians start getting very, very nervous, they have almost the same kind of stress we had going to college when the time was there for an exam. I was blessed, thanks to my profession, to be "backstage doctor" and only for the artists. I had the honour that I was invited ON STAGE, to see the professional music groups. Before I knew, did the job about 15 years, AND, every year, I had a real nice experience. BUT THERE WERE RULES
- DON'T DISTURB, was the most important rule.
I can only tell what I saw, before performing, they were so nervous, that it's almost impossible to perform. BUT once on stage, there was areal metamorphosis (= they all changed) and they played a very, very good gig, a lot of times I was invited by the artist, so YOU CAN TASTE A LITTLE BIT, on stage, when they played. Some groups had more than 50 guitars, and they had a special technician, who tuned their guitar too, wish I had taken one. But on stage it affects you, it is/was an experience, better experiences, and your body is full of adrenalin it is like YOU are a member of the band, and once when it was already quit dark, with the CURE.
Imagine, 60000 people a lot of lighters it feels, even after all those years I still think about this.
Don't panic, I think that if you compare 10 groups, 9 of them will be nervous. I don't lie or exagerate, once on stage you get a kick. Even after 40 years, the rolling stones are nervous. Fact is, I saw it with my own eyes, because they changed very quick into a situation which is not healthy ONCE ON STAGE: a metamorphosis. I saw so much artists, and I was for a long while in contact with Dave Grohl, he told me too, that since the foo fighters, he is more nervous than in Nirvana. Often you can see the drummer, more difficult, he didn't suffer a lot when still in Nirvana, and Cobain got all the attention.

It is a common thing, borrowing other peoples songs. Or especially in BLUES, a lot of songs are almost identical.
Can we still speaking of borrowing, or is it STEALING.
Don't forget, if you see the chords that there are only 7 chords A  B  C  D  E  F  G, and of course the derivates like Am or A7, if you can play these chords, you are even able to create very good music. That is the main reason, why I have a tremendous respect for Bob Dylan, he wrote pearls of songs, just using 3 or 4 chords and using only A B C D E F G.
But crossroads, can be indeed a "clapton" version, it is more than enough to "borrow" a blues song, to play it a lot faster and just check the result.
Greetz

So genes is the correct word. It was maybe a bit confusing, but it's like I wrote, why are there generations of people, certain families, doing the same job?
I think that what I wrote is very close to the answer on this question.
But bootleger, talking about genes, is really complicated, you have dominant genes, or genes that if both man and wife have, are hidden, not dominant are "popping up"because they both have them.
I do agree with paranormal, but as you can read in my answer, there are more things than genetics. About in your heart and soul YES, just compare a song performed by many artists.
BUT I DON'T KNOW why some people are drowning in talent, and others not. I JUST KNOW THAT IF YOU ARE BLESSED WITH A TALENT: USE IT, I know people, musicians, so talented, but they don't use it.
Para, I hope you have a better idea concerning your topic. Anyway, you receive "genetic material" from AND your father AND your mother. We should have a topic about genetics, it is very fascinating and very strange. If you like more info, I mail it to you. BTW how old are you?
Why this question, because being "chordians" we like to share our knowledge, more specific, we love to learn from young and old.

I love topics like this, as you might know, I have a few similar topics, in Chordie's chat corner too, and they are all titled facts.
- SINGING IN THE RAIN: Gene Kelly, a movie song, end 4ties, or 5ties?
- SPRING, SUMMER, WINTER and FALL: by Aphrodite's Child, for those who don't know this band, they are a band in the sixties, 3 members, having a few real "goosebump" songs, like I Want To Leave and here another song fitting here, a very "PACHELBEL: CANON OF pachelbel to be specific, orientated song RAIN & TEARS. Maybe if I write the name of 2 members: VANGELIS and DEMIS ROUSSOS, a bell start ringing.
- NOVEMBER RAIN by GUNs' & ROSES.
- FOUR SEASONS in ONE DAY by Crowded House
- ITS RAINING MEN by different performers, but I am not sure: Geri Halliwell (ex spice girl)
- WEATHER WITH YOU by crowded house again
- SHE'S A RAINBOW: by The Rolling Stones
- RIDERS ON THE STORM by The Doors
- FOUR SEASONS by Vivaldi (classic composer, a few 100 years ago)
- The RAINSONG, by LED ZEPPELIN
- ABOUT TO RAIN by Neil Young
- ALL I NEEDED WAS THE RAIN by Elvis Presley
- ALABAMA RAIN by Jim Croce
- IT NEVER RAINS IN (SOUTHERN) CALIFORNIA by Albert Hammond
- BABY CAN YOU STOP THE RAIN by Luther Vandross
- HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE RAIN by Creedence Clearwater Revival
- I CAN'T STAND THE RAIN by TINA TURNER, there are far more performers
- NAKED IN THE RAIN by the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
I also add the name of a group, where the late Jaco Pastorius was a member: WEATHER REPORT

If you like I can add a lot more, but it is really a nice topic, please enjoy and continue

That story please use it to write a song. I am pretty sure you will find very easy a song about this, like you wrote, very rare situation and the odds are very much like you wrote.
If you feel the music IN YOU caused by this event, if it went straight to your heart, if it touched your emotions: PLEASE WRITE A SONG, and I think we would be pleased if you like to put it on chordie.
Some things are so rare, and almost, I said almost, not always, impossible to imagine, and I didn't have much luck the last years, and this give questions, that no one can answer.
WHY, HOW, WHAT is there a coincidence or is it planned? I've been through a lot. But
I had a patient once, where a daughter gave birth on exact the same day, as her own mother. This is also difficult to believe, but there was a situation, meaning, her father and mother gave birth to the daughter, at the age of 17, and so did the daughter, 18 years old, they were in the same hospital, and at almost EXACTLY the same time, officialy the time they had to report was the same, the daughter gave birth to a son, and so did her mother.
If you start thinking in words like brother, sister, you loose really your mind.
But there are facts who go straight to your heart, leading sometimes to beautiful songs.
I can giove you an example, but this is a very sad one: the song that Eric Clapton wrote, when hiis son felt down from an appartement is "tears in heaven". It should be a song, where people should think about. I have got a cardiac arrest a few hourds after a car crash. Following the statistics, driving 90km/h and hitting a tree (aquaplaning, very nice road, but a pool of water in a corner), there is a 1 in a million chance to survive, and if surviving a 1 /100000 to be NOT in a wheelchair.
I am thinking and I see very often in my dreams things like a crash, or that I can run.
Every day is different, even if things go wrong, try to make the best of it, and it is not easy, I just have to consider my situation: always in (terrible lower back) pain, no more walking, no more .., name it. I am very happy that I found chordie, and you are all great, and that is a FACT THAT MAKES ME STRONG and helps me to pass my day. Also weird is, I lost my father too, he was 44 years old, that at "exactly at the moment he died, we, my mother and me, were standing in front of an undertaker, waiting for a red traffic light, I said to my mother, this must be a real difficult job, make a living where others are dead. The moment I spoke these words, I remember me watching the time, was the same as written in Rotterdam (Holland) 15:01
Sometimes, I'm asking myself is THIS reality, is this coincidence or not. And paranormal, I wrote a song about it, I also still remember me every chord, and most of the lyrics, 33 years later, but at that time composed on a 50$ guitar.
Playing it now, gives me a kind of inner peace, and finally, only the good and sweet memories stay.
We should discuss about this on a day.

Sorry if you didn't understand what I wrote. Maybe I mispelled the word and genes is not the correct word. I just tried to give you an answer on your question, and I will never give an answer if I am not sure. More, why should I do an attempt to make it sound like humour, we had even contact before. If there was a topic about jokes, I even wouldn't participate. I tried to HELP YOU, is this a crime? Every word I wrote is based on TRUE information, more it took me over an hour to do some research. The fact that you wrote, who has music in their blood, is a very interesting topic.
And I will be short: when I wrote about GOOGLE, I gave you articles where you can find, what I tought (probably wrong) to try to answer why there are families who play and sing and are so talented. I just wrote that it is probably genetic determined, but more influenced by the environment. If you grow up in a musical family, it is obvious that there is an influence, and also important is that in the human brain there is a centre, as I wrote, responsible for our artistic abilities. I hope you understand that I was absolutely not JOKING, but trying to give an answer on a very interesting topic. If I read who has music in their blood, well, maybe this was not the answer you wanted to hear, but anyway this is a reason why some families have music in their blood.