Re: how many of you venture up to-or beyond the 18th fret ?
Originally Posted by
JimKo
As it has been said before "Ain't no money past the 7th fret".
No one told that to rock and blues guitarists, or their audiences. There's always lots of cheering for the high notes, though I never figured out why, other than appreciation that the musician knows his scales and chords beyond the seventh fret.
Robert Johnson's mother, describing blues musicians:
"I never did have no trouble with him until he got big enough to be round with bigger boys and off from home. Then he used to follow all these harp blowers, mandoleen (sic) and guitar players."
Lomax, Alan, The Land where The Blues Began, NY: Pantheon, 1993, p.14.
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