PASTA wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 8:13 pm

eephus wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 5:16 pm

Dave N. wrote: If there’s any single good thing about FM Steve’s passing, it’s that it got me thinking about my own ticker. Sitting in the waiting room, waiting on my Steve Albini Memorial Heart Scan.

You are not alone. I had all my shit scanned (fine). I know of many others and one bypass surgery so far as a result.

Did you go through with the MRI?

Yes! Went fine…boring results which were welcomed

rather battling with my head at the moment, but in between all that i began to figure out three songs i've wanted to be able to play on guitar forever: 'all downhill from', 'therefore i am', and 'last year' by jim o'rourke. i often heard a sort of drony aspect to the guitar parts but never really thought seriously about retuning. turns out the insignificance songs are super straightforward to play in open D with a capo, 'last year' (after some time with the footage of him playing it in japan) seems to be in dropped-D.

these songs mean a huge amount to me from intense times in my life. i stood there holding my guitar at lunchtime yesterday feeling so grateful that i can kind of play an instrument.