The Logic Off Topic list

At 5:24 PM -0400 6/24/01, GAmoore@... wrote:
>  >Music is the mating call of the Human.  That's why we are always
>  >reflexively trying to outdo each other in the flashiest possible way.

>Its a male thing - chicks don't care about solos - they care about
>emotional content. Why do you think the singer gets all the best babes?

Yes and no.  It is the reality that the chicks don't care as much for 
the long screaming wank but really musical stuff does have the 
desired effect.   Also for humans just like any other animal the 
mating competition is intended to impress the other males as much as 
it is the females.

Its like with mountain goats.  I doubt if the ewes give a shit which 
ram smashes in the other ones skull and earns the right to get laid. 
The ewe just wants to get laid and is going to regardless of the 
outcome, so it's more of a vital interest between the rams which one 
gets the big payoff and which just gets the big head ache.

I get the feeling he goal of the kid practicing starts out to be to 
develop the ability to make decent music so he can get the chick, 
then it becomes the ability beat out all the other guitar players 
vying for a spot in the band, then after he does, it's the wish to 
shout to the world including the chick "hey look at me, I blew away 
all those other guys and I'm the best that's why I'm here".  That the 
guitar wank becomes longer and longer is just an extension "look at 
me, look at me and not the singer, look at me and keep looking at me 
a long time".

And even if it does work better to be as a singer it works to be a 
guitar player pretty damn well too hence Jimmy page and his whips, 
which I doubt if he would get away with if he was simply a grocery 
checker.

Me, I'm the singer *and* the guitar player.  :-)

And BTW, really, why do you insist on bottom quoting and leave me to 
clean up the mess when doing it right to begin with is so fucking 
easy?
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