[richlevy]

Ok, I admit that when I read the title in the new posts search I was not paying attention to which forum it was in. When I read the introduction up until the music, I got a very bad feeling about where it was headed.

I Need Your Validation and/or Condemnation

Fast forward about 20 years...still basically unlaid (at least, as far as guitar talent was concerned), I found myself involved with a musical partner of some considerable talent, one Lane Lambert, an early and earnest romantic partner.

Decades went by. Our romantic involvement fell by the wayside, and we both ended up married to others. Her spouse over these past 20 years has always been supportive and omniscient; my spouses have been, variously, unconcerned and (at present) alternately disconnected and outright oppositional.

Anyway, I listened to your Morholt track from "Tristan and Iseult", and tracks 2 and 9 of your new work. Being a fan of fast paced rhytms and melodies, I liked Morholt very much. While Elizabethan-type music is not my favorite, I found some nice melodies in your new work. Track 2 reminded me a little of Cape Breton music, which is Celtic with a touch of what sounds like me to be Middle Eastern melodies.

Anyway, being a bad amatuer harmonica player and even worse drummer, I would like to add my voice to the values of hobbies. Providing you keep it in perspective and not risk your families financial well being, you have a right and even a responsibility to keep yourself happy. I am a lousy drummer and I own two functioning and two broken drums because I enjoy banging on a drum. You have actual talent and enjoy playing a guitar. As long as you don't take out a second mortgage to finance your hobby you have every right to keep going.

You and Lane play very well together. I think that a chaste and professional collaboration is great if you both enjoy doing it. Good luck.