Cureless

For some of you who have read my blog just recently would say I’m a closet guitar fan. But believe me, I proclaimed about my eagerness to play that instrument almost 10 years ago when I bought my first guitar using those hard-earned pennies won from a local TV quiz show. The story of my guitar ends here as when I finally decided to save it from rotting in my grandparents’ home in Bicol, it wasn’t spared by the clumsy hands of those people at home, where it ended, well, laying somewhere in the rat-infested storage.

Aside from strumming, I never really learned anything about playing guitar that would make me as famous as Steve Vai (or the beloved Kirk Hammett). Well it did help a lot to understand and appreciate instrumental songs, guitar solos, hard rock, and death metal, and oh, Kirk Hammett and Depapepe… with the help of great guitar geeks.

And so time passed, Fluffy and I separate ways with the guitar geeks. No more guitar geeks, just a game geek who knows how to strum E-D-C on an acoustic guitar and who would love to have Guitar Hero as a gift, if only his PS2 wasn’t busted.

Just yesterday, by some stroke of luck, Fluffy surprised me with his Ultimate Game Discovery of the Moment™. Guess what that is?

It’s on the title (dummy). Frets on Fire. A Guitar Hero-rip off you may say. (But I’ve never played Guitar Hero so throw your gnashing somewhere else.) I can’t really compare.

For the computer and guitar geeks, it would surely give you another reason to love or hate the keyboard.

“WTF, I missed that long solo streak b’coz of this ‘effin sticky ENTER key!”

For now, I’m butchering “Cliffs of Dover” by Eric Johnson (which is one of my favorites, if not my most favorite instrumental of all time) on the “Super Easy” mode. Then I shall murder the rest of those melodic guitar instrumentals around the internet (so start hiding them from me). Fluffy said he has a copy of “Cannon D” at home, not sure if that’s Jerry C’s rock version though.

Put on your earplugs.