All Along the Watchtower

I took shrooms only about 4 times, 1 of the times I listen to all along the watchtower and it BLEW MY MIND. Everyone else with me was trying to go for a walk and do other things but I was stuck, amazed and it just changed me forever.

ibmethatswhoib said:

I took shrooms only about 4 times, 1 of the times I listen to all along the watchtower and it BLEW MY MIND. Everyone else with me was trying to go for a walk and do other things but I was stuck, amazed and it just changed me forever.

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The madness continues. So last night I spend the evening at warrior woman's house, watching a few more episodes of BSG on Netflix. (No Hookah, this time.) The last episode we watched was titled "Sine qua non", which basically alludes to the fact that the big general dude ("Ayalla"?) can't live without the President Lady, so he resigns his military position and takes a ship out to look for her while the rest of the fleet leaves him behind, probably to die.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sine_qua_non

In this case, it means "without which, nothing". It's referring to a special quality, without which you have nothing, no matter what else there might be, if you don't have that special quality, you have nothing.

Next day, I notice one BHW member has "Sine qua non" as his signature. A few hours later, I see it again, online. I've never seen this Latin phrase my entire life, and in 2 days I've seen it 3 times.

The guitar is a bit to large for his hands, and his phrasing is a bit clumsy, but the arrangement would be really nice to hear done by a talented professional. But the kid gets listed for three reasons. First, it's a classical guitar. Second he's kid, and third because his execution of the harmonics as punctuation is flawless.

[video=youtube_share;__3N0SpwAqQ]http://youtu.be/__3N0SpwAqQ[/video]

I never heard of this chick. 1972, with groovy, upbeat guitar, and a Dolly Parton warble.

[video=youtube_share;1GxB5PmQaf8]http://youtu.be/1GxB5PmQaf8[/video]

Found another good one. Never heard of her either. Great vocals, great guitar solo.

[video=youtube_share;f1UcenREdzU]http://youtu.be/f1UcenREdzU[/video]

When I saw the thread title, the song intro started playing on my head (Hendrix's version, not Dylan's)

"No reason to get excited,"
The thief, he kindly spoke
"There are many here among us
Who feel that life is but a joke
But you and I, we've been through that
And this is not our fate
So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late"

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Bob Dylan's - Original version