The other day I was thinking about how Andrew McCabe was about the only G man I could think of who I respected at all, and today I realized that he kind of looked like one of the men I found very attractive, Gildas Boclé who is also one of my favorite bass players. I don't think that's the reason I respect Mr. McCabe, that was because of his integrity and honesty. Though the looks don't hurt. I look at them and think, oh, to be younger, sort of, again. I guess that's a pride month themed post, if not a true confession. My personal life doesn't get much more tabloidy than that.
I also found on an old drive three much earlier Youtubes of duo performances of Gildas Boclé and the spectacularly fine guitarist Nelson Veras, which aren't online anymore. Back then Nelson Veras was playing with an enormously long thumbnail on his right hand. It's kind of strange looking but he played spectacularly well. I didn't buy one of the wonderful Godin nylon string electrics that he played but I did buy one of their much less expensive parlor guitar models, the Motif. If you buy one, string it with lighter gague strings than it comes with, it's a great guitar but my bridge came off during a dry spell. It's a good guitar but that was a real pain in the neck.
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