It's a Good time to Learn the Blues...

Hi Folks!

Xmas, yea Xmas is just around the corner and the deep chill of winter has already penetrated my nostrils, and lungs like a pounding sledge hammer..Even though officially it is not winter the snow and the deep freeze has already laid it's wrath on the unprepared public..In some parts of Canada winter began early in November and the snow keeps on piling up as Toronto ponders on how to pay for a winter that has already started in Mid November ..They have a set Winter Cleaning budget and with the present day economic crisis each snowflake will cause a slight headache for Mr. Miller and Company..Which brings me to the above entry It's a good time to Learn the Blues!
So Mr. Miller get your guitar tuned up and make sure you have those really nice slinky type strings which can bend oh so nicely as you quietly strum the blues to the tune of....ummm Let me see....I got the rags but no riches Blues!...(Hehe!) Maybe we should all buy a guitar and learn the blues since Ontario has now been officially labeled a have not province!

If you don't want to play the guitar to take your frustrations out then try seeing life with a different perspective..Humor is a nice way to see life and there were many times a good belly laugh was all I needed...I love to tell the joke of the best diet in the world...in times of economic adversity (when you don't have a job!)....Here it is: I call it the no money for food diet...Works like a charm! Please don't take me seriously and starve yourself...In other words don't try this at home! OK?

Yea playing the blues is becoming a reality for me now...My unsightly Grey hair and that ugly looking bald spot at the back of my head is enough to make my skin crawl!...Especially when I have to look in the mirror after a hair cut...I'm reminded quite shockingly as I gently curse to myself when leaving the barbershop! There was a time when I started using men's hair color to hide the Grey but soon realized that it was as phony as a two dollar bill! I mean, looking like I had no Grey was odd since I would have to have plastic surgery to hide my aging face!...Getting older is a fact of life so I will grin and bear it and it will make learning the blues on my trusty guitar even more of a reality now!....Feeling good is all one should ask for and hiding one's age is not something I would recommend to anyone...Well if someone signs me to a million dollar recording contract then maybe I will buy that hair color again!

Why learn the blues? Well on a guitar certain patterns are movable as are the pentatonic scales and certain chord progressions...Learn one key and you can move them anywhere on the fretboard! The rhythm of the blues really originated in Africa and if you really listen closely to African tribes one can sense their soul in all their singing and drum banging! The first North American blues were played on street corners in the Mississippi Delta region! Thus the mother of all pop and rock is how it all got started... Learn the blues and you will understand the major influences of pop music today! When the crowds started forming as they played and sang then you knew in your heart of hearts that the blues was a new unique sound... Yea rock on my soul brothers! Or should I say Blues on?

Yea I ponder about life and even shed a tear about growing old and suffering with some kind of major ailment but as I sit and think my eyes go to my guitar case and I immediately take my guitar out and practice those blues licks and even work on some songs I have up my sleeve! Forget about going to a psychiatrist!Playing music on an instrument is the best therapy going and if your wife constantly has her nightly headaches you can quietly walk down the stairs into your rec room, plug in your guitar and your headphones and crank up the volume as you sweetly play your favorite BB King tune! Don't forget to sing because singing reinforces the blues in your subconscious and you will feel a lot better when you had a good two hours of strumming and singing...A substitute for crying? You can bet on it!

Yea the way the world is today everyone should learn the blues....Perhaps one can send out guitars to third world countries along with the medical supplies and the food...I see many guitars on curbs waiting to be cleaned up and re strung...I picked up one myself and even played it in church! If you break up with your wife or girl friend then learning the blues is a necessity and will put your crying on the back burner as you valiantly sing Heart Break Hotel! Try it and let me know how you are doing ok? Yea you can do this at home and I recommend it!

As I see how people are and how depressed one may get if that promotion doesn't materialize or that raise doesn't come through....One can hear all those excuses and the song Blame it on the Bossa Nova comes to mind! One can only blame the present economic crisis and a credit fallout which resulted... The CEO's of the big three auto manufacturers have resorted to pauper status as they try to look dignified as they beg and plead for money! Maybe they should play the blues on street corners, for dimes and nickles? Hell maybe they will be lucky to get a toonie or two as they sing their hearts out to the tune of Give me Money! That's all I want! Well if they thought of producing what people wanted ages ago maybe things would be different today! They are at a crossroads now as the signs at the fork in the road says Muscle power or Green power! Rev up your engines for a short time and enjoy it while you can for I predict the North American car manufacturers will be revolutionized and will be a lean, green more meaner industry! Remember you read it here first!

Yea as I quietly strum the blues my mind sees hundreds of for sales signs in the USA and Canada as the economic serpent stings each one of us...Thousands of foreclosures are as common as dandelions in June as people begin to ponder what to do next! If there are no jobs there can be no demand for real estate as house prices plummet...There are many office rental and leasing spaces sitting empty as owners struggle to keep their investments alive...Should I sell? Well the snake of contradiction says if I do then I will sell for peanuts and If I hang on and wait it out I may not make my mortgage payment next month! So everyone today is in a catch 22 position as the prophecy of the bible The New World Order comes to mind! Everything may be different when the smoke clears and one day when we least expect it a major economic fallout will send the North American stock market in a state of shocking frenzy! When that happens everyone will learn the blues and your ordinary stand up comic will be in demand more then ever as people struggle for a deeper meaning in life! There is a downside to all this! Your life savings will be not be worth the paper it's printed on and when that happens then 1929 will haunt us as we stand prepared to line up for food rations! Yea by then I will be a blues expert if should live that long to see that tragedy take hold...

Why all this doom and gloom Mr. Verifiedbeliever! Well the reason why I wrote this entry on It's a good time to learn the blues is because life should not be taken too seriously and if you sit in your little comfort zone counting your money and your string of successes without contemplating for the future then my dear people you will be living in an illusion of security...We own nothing my friends!.....I don't care if you are the sole owner of a chain of hotels, when it's time to go you are suddenly a pauper!...For all the money and wealth in the world will not do you any good when you are on the verge of passing away! If you have lived a ruthless unkind life and didn't give an owl's hoot about anyone then all the money in the world will mean nothing! Without spiritual dollars to propel you to the riches of the next life you will die with nothing!
If you see yourself in that picture then it will be too late to learn the blues! You will die a pauper and will be at the mercy of the Bigga Bigga Bossa upadera!

My Xmas message for everyone today is! Behave like you have nothing and accumulate all the spiritual dollars you can round up and when it's time to go you can sing something more joyful and exciting! But hell....if you still love the blues go ahead sing and play your heart out anyway!!! (hehehe)

Stay tuned for the Verifiedbeliever's next entry! Ciaooooooooooo! Love yaaaaaaaaaaaaa!