Tomo Fujita Guitar Wisdom

Aloha Sunil!

Because the wave exists.

Kurt

There are no wrong answers my friend.
I like that one!
I surf because the wave is there!

But if you go to the beach and just watch the surfers…just watch the waves. With neutral state of mind. This means let go of all the anchor lines of emotion and attachment to everything you see, pay attention only with joy. You will see the golden surfer at dawn or dusk. So tell yourself to go to the beach to watch the sun begin or end. Then the golden surfer appears…because you were ready to see them…but now again same question is there. So now what?

I actually did this for two years lolol…go to blacks beach near ucsd…crazy…when I met shilpa she was just lost like me…like Tomo she sacrificed everything.
Immigrants make a leap of faith to come here. Which is really hard, and it *might* get easier. I am a son of immigrants born in Oakland, California. But I didn’t understand what my dad and mom did. Only until I knew shilpa.

She came to study art. Parents, upper middle class in Mumbai, totally sacrificed everything to let their daughter leap.
She was not thriving in India. She is the rebellious learner, like me. But then school was also triple the cost of residents in California. And she would just get some jobs and not go to school so she could pay for school…you’re right that doesn’t make sense.

At that time I was making more money than my dad, who made a lot of money and built his own home in the hills with the view of the city…his guitar was the jet engine, and his dream is flight. He had to learn to fly to leave, and he kept flying. But didn’t need to. I think it was the only time I felt my dad was proud of me…

So anyways…the question still stands:

why does the golden surfer surf

Another clue.

Between the beats there is the not-beat.
That is between the beats there is the nothing, not-nothing.

Yes we’re going to crazy town my friends to find the boundaries. Because that is why the boundaries exist I think, when we add them, they can give rise to the creative process.

In order to understand nothing (0) you can approach it from positive side or negative side…like limits in calculus.

Here I’m using ideas I know work in the real world (numbers, number line, and the concept of zero (0)).

So
understand what came before
0
understand what came after

Aloha, my friends!

Dear Sunil, your comment is very thought provoking, and I want to contribute to your discussion!

It reminded me of something I learned in my undergrad days: the deconstructionist slogan that "the center is not the center." For a structure cannot be defined solely with terms inside the structure. Paradoxically, the organizing logic of the structure must be self-evident from within, but is yet assumed and ordained from the outside, rather than proven from within the structure. To continue your mathematic metaphor, it would be akin to Godel's incompleteness theorem. We can only play with words, never define them absolutely without reference -- only by comparison with other words can we find meaning in any word at all (no light without dark etc.)

In more applicable terms to our musical journey, I feel this idea of "between the beats there is the not-beat" is a very sweet slogan -- I like this sentence a lot!! it reminds me of how when I tried to "explain" music theory to a friend who is seeped in traditional Chinese folk and not as familiar with western music, they could not understand why i insisted that "major 3rd sounds happy, and minor 3rd sad" is self-evident. I also came to realize this was more a shorthand than a truth as I listened to more jazz and blues and heard how these languages both uses and questions the character of the 3rds at the same time... we use definitions to limit us, to guide us and help us make a shared reality, but it is also important to always stay questioning and open to new ways of hearing!

Actually, I am watching the Kyoto video on youtube right now, inspired by the post on the forum too, and can better appreciate how the concepts we discuss are used so musically and intentionally in this tune, wow!!

That is so interesting.

I think Steve likes that sound, his playing the sound is bright, clean sound, familiar like yours.

Jerry Garcia also had a lap guitar phase I read.

Also, very interestingly, milkman amps in the city also makes these super clean amps based on Jerry’s lapsteel guitar sound and they also have lapsteel amps I think (from what I remember…I didn’t consult supermind…:))

Please tell Steve he rocks (times a gazillon) Tomo!

Shilpa and I were married in Kauai December 02. We saw Steve! We’re much younger they told us no pakalolo!
I think it was EUDEMONIC release tour.

The best memories.

We’re all the golden surfer here.