New Found Respect

I don't want to pretend that I have *any* talent for music. In fact, I will venture a guess and say I'm the *least* talented person musically except for, say, my deaf family...of whom some actually formed a Christian folk group called the "Signs of the Harvest". I have no ear for it. Ahem. But, I have gotten quite good at the medium level of Guitar Hero (hard and expert seem positively savant-like at this point) and I am amazed at the level of intense concentration and full body cooperation goes into my hitting 100% of the notes (brag). This has given me a new found respect for the rock and roll star.

The fact that they are able to play any song, let alone several in a row, and using real strings and chords instead of color coded buttons is mind boggling. I actually got tired in the middle of one song and thought, "My hands hurt and I really want a sip of that wine." So I hit pause and sipped the wine and stretched my hand which had frozen stiff into its claw like pose necessary to hit the blue and red buttons simultaneously. Just how the heck do they play with a fly buzzing around and all that hair in their eyes? In their mouth? And drunk? Because that's how I'm trying to play and it's hard!

--Kambri
It must be an act. Rock and roll stars are actually sober savants who calculate their drug addled look.