Welcome to our group, David! Thanks for sharing your situation with us. I find your dedication to playing the guitar inspiring. It makes all the excuses that I have been telling myself, when I leave my guitar unplayed, just that... Excuses. And yes, thanks Graham, for screening out the spam. Graham contributes a lot to this group! Regards, Jeff B. So. Fl. USA ----- Original Message ---- From: David <thesongsmyth@...> To: gsp-2101@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 1:47:29 PM Subject: [gsp-2101] Intro Hello All, Thank you all for allowing me to join, and in particular, Graham who did the "spam screening". I think that's a very clever way to keep spammers out! I wanted to introduce myself. I'll try to give the "quick" version: I'm in a bit of a strange situation regarding my musical career and guitar playing... Like many I started playing when I was young (9), in the mid 60's and so am heavily influenced by classic rock and acoustic rock. I played and reached a fairly high level of accomplishment on the guitar and spent quite a few years traveling the US, UK etc.. In 1995 I sufferd a serious spinal cord injury which left me an "incomplete" quadripelegic - which means my cord was damaged but not transected. As an incomplete, initially I had little use of my body below the neck level. However, after LOTS of rehab (years) I regained an astonishing level of use of my upper body - I started out with a guitar propped on my lap and a slide stuck on my finger - and progressed from there - one note at a time. By 2004 I had recovered about 75% of my playing ability - and was quite happy (though I remained wheelchair bound)! At the end of 2004, while doing physical therapy in a pool, a part of the original fix (graft in my neck) broke, again, bruising the spinal cord, again I lost all use... very frustrating to say the least. Once again I started with just working on moving my shoulders etc. moved on, ...again via slide initially then on to fingering. Today, though I have lots of difficulties (such as not having full feeling in my finger tips and not knowing just how much pressure I'm fretting with, not knowing where my hand and fingers are without looking at them ...) and "off" days, I can do a fairly good job of playing (including songs like Hedrix's 'Little Wing', and I've just about got Santana's 'Samba Pa Ti' - well the notes anyway - the phrasing is a killer!). Everything considered, I feel like an awful lucky and fortunate guy! Regarding my 2101 - I LOVE it! I just got it 2 weeks ago so I've barely scratched the surface with it. I have the unit that the face plate doesn't say "Artist" on it, but the firmware version is "3.00.00.a Artist" and unfortunetly, I don't have the ppc-210 installed. Right now I'm just trying to play with some of the alg's etc, and get a better understanding of the various mixers and noise gates (the ng's are causing me some grief at the moment). I hope I didn't give you the wrong impression with my first post. It's just usually easier if folks know in advance why I may not be able to do certain things! Once again, thanks for having me. I'm certain I'll have my share of questions but I need to do my homework and forum searches first. Cheers! David
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Re: [gsp-2101] Intro
2008-06-30 by Jeff B.