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There is extensive research on music therapy going on, particularly at Colorado State University. Some forms of music therapy, especially on certain stroke patients, has much better healing properties than drugs. If the right music is applied properly to the right brain injury it can "re-allign" the brainwaves, making body movements better synchronized. I went to Colorado State U. and observed the healing power of music in a scientific laboratory environment. It was truly amazing. What's even more amazing is the quantification of which type of music (which instrument, volume control, pitch, etc.) helps which type of injury, and the measure of benefit (increased motion, strength gain, etc.) DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE the pwer of music on our brains. I don't drink or take any drugs and look how screwed up I am after nearly thirty years of blasting the blues. Later...

Yup, true! And don't forget the surge in the new science of Thanatology, which is using music (primarily harp music) to work with convalescing or terminal patients.

Music is good for calming, that is for sure. If I am in a rough mood I tend to play the guitar or listen to a good soft (Or metal) song, depends on the type of mood. If I am angry it is usually metal, if I am depressed it is usually something slow and melodic. If I am just in a normal mood, it can be techno. By the way, as an important note, there is a such genre as "trance music" (Which I am sure you, Irminsul, are fully aware of). Thus, if you just look at the name, "Trance," that alone can indicate what it can do to you. Actually, I have listened to it before and it really does kind of take you away, it is like a drug, especially if overplayed.

At any rate, peace out, GuitarAnatomy.

My father in law had DBS (deep brain stimulation) surgery related to his Parkinson's disease. And he was allowed to select some music to be played during the surgery. Since you are awake the entire time they are in your brain they have started allowing patients to have the music to calm them.

My father in law had DBS (deep brain stimulation) surgery related to his Parkinson's disease. And he was allowed to select some music to be played during the surgery. Since you are awake the entire time they are in your brain they have started allowing patients to have the music to calm them.

Yes, I have heard this is being allowed in other sorts of operations now too. It's a really good thing! I'm glad to know the modern medical establishment is getting on board with something the Ancients knew and practiced millennia ago.

My father in law had DBS (deep brain stimulation) surgery related to his Parkinson's disease. And he was allowed to select some music to be played during the surgery. Since you are awake the entire time they are in your brain they have started allowing patients to have the music to calm them.

Yes, I have heard this is being allowed in other sorts of operations now too. It's a really good thing! I'm glad to know the modern medical establishment is getting on board with something the Ancients knew and practiced millennia ago.

Anything that can relax you in something like that is a good thing I say. I mean TV's in the dentist office, mp3 players allowed or provided. It's much different from the days when I had braces and got strapped into a chair that was about as comfortable as if were made of barbed wire.

hey, reminds me of a private party gig in Midland, tx, a halloween party, had this drummer who had a girl from californication usa, she had a little girl who that young lady had hit that the child and busted her nose and the cops had a report that our drummer had done that, they raided our party all like swat, sheriff Gary Painter, whom had came out in high times mag as one of the top hard hitters showed up, just like the movies, well we fought the law and won, the drummers girlfriend confessed she did the crime, and everyone was over 18 at the party, but freaked the crap out of everyone and got left with 3 people, made some waves in president Bush town, another adventure.

Wow, good for you. What a drama! And any parent who would bust their kids nose deserves to have that child put immediately into foster care, and the slimeball parent off to the pokey. Child abuse really, really pisses me off.

Wow, good for you. What a drama! And any parent who would bust their kids nose deserves to have that child put immediately into foster care, and the slimeball parent off to the pokey. Child abuse really, really pisses me off.

I cannot stand when people hit their children. Angers me, I am not a violent person. Hitting children just proves how weak a person really is, same with a man hitting a woman. A man who hits a woman is a coward, and a parent who hits a child is the same.

Peace out, GuitarAnatomy.

My nightmare:
Had a drummer who screwed me pretty good.He had a space in his aunts garage.This garage was a total mess when you walked in the door or atleast tried to boxes and junk piled up to the ceiling.Needless to say we both decided to make a studio out of this garage.He was low on cash and promised to split the cost of everything.The first couple of weeks was cleaning the mess up.I rented the biggest dumpster I could get at $350.00 and we cleaned all the crap out.I should also mention his aunt was the biggest pack-rat you would ever seen.Next came the wood for building the floor up (due to slight water when it rained hard because the front door to garage had a gap and was slanted towards the door from the outside.)which cost over $1,500.00. After several months of working on studio on our free time.Mostley after I just got done working. The studio was finished he decided to be a big jack*** and have his emotion woman fits also due to mental reasons.He kicked me out of band.There was no way to recover the loss because the fact it was on properity from a family member and I cant do anything.

Ok, equip and horror story, here's mine.

We started the band, this was back in about 89-90 by the way. So the 2 guitar players were high school friends, I'd just started bass, got a new drummer and things were going well.

We bought a PA, one of the guitarists brother-in-law worked at a local music store. So we would play a gig and fork all the cash to the store for our PA purchase, than same for the lights, than for a school bus we converted, and than more equip, etc. Kind of a two year saga.

So now after two years we were debt free, had the bus and all the crap to play, 4 way split on this stuff on paper.

What I'd never considered is that since "John" was taking the cash and getting the stuff from his brother in law it was all in his name, see where this is going?

So I'd had a date that was a "no-play" for me, had given months notice and than about a month before that date an opportunity came up to play and they found a replacement for the night. Except that guy's one night stint became permanent and I returned home to find a message that I was out. No $$ back, no equip back, all I had was my bass, they even had my amp in the bus. But I'd bought it used from some guy so no paperwork even for that....

I lost everything in that deal, especially my desire to play. Loosened the strings on my bass, put it in a case in summer 91 and didn't play for almost two years.

It was my own fault looking back, I trusted people I thought were my friends. Did I mention that "John" the guitarist stood up in my wedding? Just proves that friendship and work don't mix. My own lesson in school of hard knocks.

I rambled enough, learned alot from that.

82-82 Played in a metal band in Memphis. The singers name was Coburn Pharr (went on to sing with Canadian group Annihilator). We have this gig in a small club. When I show up with guitar amps and drums Coburn has this huge PA setup. I asked what did this cost, he said he had taken care of it. We play the gig and it starts raining. Im there in a pickup truck so I ask the owner if I can leave my amp (head and 2 4x12). The next evening I come back and my stuff is gone. The club owner says the sound people loaded it up with their stuff. I go to their shop and they tell me they are holding my stuff til the bill for the PA is paid. It took me a couple of weeks pay to get my stuff out of hock from these guys.

If you've noticed my live looping vids you'll see I play alone. Nobody stands me up for practice. I don't have to schedule practices. I don't have to loan guitar cables, cords, adapters, amps guitars etc. Man that is bliss. I have been in many bands. The full band thing is great. But the ease of looping though man I wouldn't trade it for the best band. I will still do both. I have several friends that pawn the same gear over and over. I hate it for them. In reference to other topics earlier in this thread. I went to high school with a guy who had robojoe on his license plate. Man people will do anything to get high. It's sad that so much talent is wasted due to the artist personality type being so vulnerable to addiction. Yes weed is a drug. Yes it impairs. Yes it is from the ground but so is tobacco. Tobacco surely kills. Yes alcohol seems worse to me too. Both weed and alcohol wreak havoc. I've never lost any gear due to screwy friends. I pick my friends with caution.

true , more careful bout how i run the crowd that i do, on music being soothing or therapy is in the bible, king Saul, before he went to battle and was bothered about who would fight goliath and should goliath win, the Isralites were going to be slaves to the philistines. Saul had someone go find David to play for King Saul, and David showed up and played and as the story goes it soothed Saul and drove the evil spirit away, word is he may have played the song the Lord is my shepard.

The harp in Gaelic culture and history had such a wide range of uses, few realize they also used it in war.

It was a tradition called the "War Harp" and consisted of the bard standing atop a hill near the hostilities and loudly singing about all the shortcomings and deformations of the other side. It was intended to help chip away at the morale of the opposing army but it was also a very dangerous job, because being perched atop an uncovered hill makes you a VERY easy target for a good bowman.