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“that came from. They're channeling some deeper thing. When I interviewed Brian May, he told me, I can't remember if this was if we talked about it on camera or not, but we talked about Bohemian Rhapsody. At the very end, there was a thing where he was depressing his whammy bar a little bit. And”
Europa
“that because of the sound is so unique and his interest improvised. It's so cool. Yeah. There's certain songs like Europa by Santana, Santana can have that tone too. Yeah, that Mark Nothler makes me really, just how clean it is. I think he beats BB King in my book on terms of”

“it's like there's a meta aspect to it. But the nenders also like we're talking about this guitar stuff, but Leonard Cohen, hallelujah, and Leonard Cohen in general, like these songwriters that go super simple in guitar. And there is just what's that called singer songwriter type. I told you off my”

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“into that moment in time. Listen to the set list. Enter Sandman, creeping death, Harvester Sara, fate to black, sad but true, master of puppets, seek and destroy for whom the belt holds one and whiplash. Look at that. How is that? That just got the fuck out of here. That's amazing.”
Money for Nothing
“the interesting instrumentation of La Romeo and Juliet, just so, so many is truly one of the greats. Now, obviously, the intro to money for nothing is one of the greatest, almost impossible to recreate that because of the sound is so unique and his interest improvised. It's so cool. Yeah.”

“to the fact there's the, if you're ready, there's a right hand, you can use your fingers or you can use a pick. Correct. That's the choice you make. And sometimes you use both. Because in stairway to heaven, you're using the fingers at the beginning or fingers and pick, hybrid, they call hybrid”

“maybe we could have done that. We were that age. So a couple of years ago, it was about, well, he was about three and a half. And I'm in the car. I was like, Dylan, sing the Star Wars theme. And he sings it. And I'm like, that's in the right key. And I checked. I played on my phone.”
Tears in Heaven
“so far is the importance of lyrics and maybe meaning of the song. It represents so in that sense, tears in heaven. Well, the story behind that is heartbreaking. And then I personally really love the sound of wonderful tonight. That's a great song. That's one of my favorite Clapton songs.”

This book collects and curates Naval’s wisdom from Twitter, Podcasts, and Essays over the past decade. The wisdom of Naval Ravikant, created and edited by Eric Jorgenson, with Illustrations by Jack Butcher, and a Forewor…
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Wonderful Tonight
“tears in heaven. Well, the story behind that is heartbreaking. And then I personally really love the sound of wonderful tonight. That's a great song. That's one of my favorite Clapton songs. And I, as I was like listening to it, just doing a whole personal journey,”


