I've no idea what the title means. I think it came from a joke where I was making things up awhile back. But the words just sound like a title to me. You can pretend it's a deep and meaningful statement though of course, if you wish. Thank you for listening!

Unabashed Conjecture

I love the blues and became determined to learn to play when I found my beautiful Eastman archtop guitar up for sale, second hand for a bargain price, in Jan 2012. As soon as I touched it I fell in love.

I first tried playing guitar several decades ago: with unrealistic teenaged enthusiasm I fully expected to sound like Hendrix within a month or two while practising just thirty minutes a week. I gave up when I still struggled to tune my guitar and the cowboy chords I'd learnt sounded really rough when I literally banged on them. Girls were much more interesting.

In my late thirties I had a mid-life crisis(!), so I  bought a US Strat and a Gibson LP Pro, determined to learn to be an ageing 'bedroom rock star'. I was working long and hard hours so only practised on odd weekends, always wondering why following tab and listening to CD lessons was not working. I decided I was tone deaf and incompetent, so yet again, I gave up, still unable to master bar chords, convinced I would never be able to play.

As an early retiree, I decided to give it a final attempt when I found my black beauty: the first few years were a journey of discovery, discipline and sore fingers. I practised most days (except when arthritis in my joints and a trapped nerve in my shoulder 'froze' my fretting pinkie and sent my thumb totally numb). Back then, I trawled YouTube and bought a DVD course of lessons, and plugged away. It was worth it as I really enjoyed the fairly limited range of things I could play.

When I first arrived on Soundcloud, I was not expecting to find such a talented and helpful community. I just wanted to upload a jam track for my friends to hear, then I found the amazing wealth of creativity here. 

Sadly, my frozen shoulder, trapped nerve and related problems have pretty much stopped my guitar ambitions since 2016.

However, I still have a blast exploring all the fabulous originals and covers so many relatively unknown, but hugely talented, musicians have conjured up for the SC community. In my first five weeks on here I downloaded c100 tracks and 'liked' hundreds more, and since then I have created many playlists that I regularly listen to depending on my mood...

Simon Cowell and his ilk (overpaid gatekeepers/brand creators/ubercapitalists) have, until now, throttled mass talent for the sake of creating a relative handful of extremely wealthy 'cash cow' celebs.

Who needs these supposedly 'professional talent spotters' and their artificially enhanced 'celebrities'? The internet rocks!

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I know I haven't been around much lately and I apologize.  This is mostly due to the fact that I have started working with a band here in Halifax NS and we're keeping things under wraps until everything is fully done.  I still have solo material to be posted which I will be doing soon.  This page is not dead.  I will be back very soon with lots of new material for your listening pleasure.   In the meantime please click on the "Tracks" tab to find my pieces and please feel free to write me directly with any comments, criticism or feedback, I really appreciate it.  Thank you so much.  The new band is quite different than most of what's here, we've decided on a bluesy, grunge, metal sound.  My page here is Instrumental only pieces by design, not what I would called structured songs for a band.  Still lots to come.  Also don't be shy to send links you of your own material you may want help in sharing.  Love to all.  Cheers.

 Tanner's Path
 Andi Thurber: vocals, lyrics, drums, production

  Gregg Johnson: acoustic and electric guitars,
   Banjitar, mandolin, music

  After 1-2 days of re- post, I re-post on Stonefingers Johnson 

Is this where I write in the  third person, something to the effect of: "Robert Gaudet is an amazing talent....etc"  as if someone else wrote it for me? 

Seriously though, I am a musician, teacher and composer. If you have any questions don't hesitate to ask, or check out any one of these links to contact me. Thanks for visiting my profile!

I am always happy to talk to new(or old) people! Thanks for checking out my profile, have a nice day.

Robert


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My trax are all mixed on my mobile device with   play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.djit.apps.edjing.expert. then uploaded 2 https://soundcloud.com/5afecracker/tracks
so dont expect much its all 4 fun
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Hi everyone. 
I love music, any music. If it's good I'll listen, like and repost for others to enjoy. If I don't follow you straight away, I'm not ignoring you. I'll make sure to listen to your tracks and follow on later. Please share, re-post, & leave constructive feedback!
Open for collabs, just send me a message if interested.
Thanks so much 4 your support. Love to all:)