Reasons Why I No Longer Play The Guitar - Nat Bradley. - Video Art
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Reasons why I no longer play the Guitar
Let us talk about nonsense shall we?
Gifter grifter young motivator, that killer T Rex song
Bang A Gong
No not that one
20th Century Boy
That’s the one
That riff dropped straight down from heaven and landed onto the fretboard
I wonder
Why not me?
I am a better painter than Lennon or Bowie
I play guitar much better than Picasso
Even the old dude playing the blue guitar
I can’t hear a fucking note can you?
Could they copy me?
Would they copy me?
Not a fucking chance and why would they even want to?
But I write the songs that make the whole world sing as I slam together some more images in photoshop
This whole musical piece I just did sounds so far removed that it is probably incomprehensible
It is like handing a monkey an encyclopedia and expecting it to just start fucking reading it
I don’t even understand it
The wrong language, it doesn’t speak to anyone, failed experiment
Only posting to get it out of my system once and for all
I hate it, why can’t I just delete the fucking thing?
It is so hard to feel annoyed constantly by everything
I feel like I am in a constant state of disappointment and boredom with the things around me including myself
Racing thoughts and more grandiose behavior
Pounding heart and electric nervous system
I am so tired of fighting my own mind
"Similar to my last post, this work represents frustration but in a different way. It also represents failure. For so long I wanted so much to be a professional musician. Over the years and decades I began to resent everything about it, especially the guitar. So much about the guitar, because of its long history feels like such a cliche. It is impossible to hear a chord or a single note without my mind expanding out to hearing thousand of songs I have heard played on the instrument. This is also about disappointment and what we do with the work we make that we are not satisfied with. I wanted to share something that I am not happy with. So, in a way, this work is conceptual. It is about frustration, disappointment, failure and being willing to share that. I do kind of dig the painting I made."