singemonkey It's not all for practical reasons either. We used to practise looking up at each other and not down at our hands. As a guitar player, you can look like a startled rabbit, but you can also look like you're autistic - hunched up and staring at your fretboard, with or without a trickle of drool running down your chin. We played instrumental music, and it wasn't like we were just strumming chords. But it was even more essential without a vocalist, that there was interesting interaction to watch on stage, and for us to look up at the audience. So being able to play 90% of everything with only the occasional glance at the fret board was essential. And then there's the reality of blinding stage lights and so on. Of course, the converse is also true. You have to be able to read your fretboard for those all-to-common occasions where you can't hear a single note coming out of your instrument. p.s. Syd. I doubt it. David Gilmour also took tons of acid, and he didn't become synaesthesic or schizophrenic either.
evolucian great... now i have a terminal illness... ☹ thanks alan :'( oh great... i have this one too... Lexical → gustatory synesthesia. For me its some words... as well as seeing pain... seeing pain or hearing/reading a story of pain always gives me a metallic taste in my mouth. Same with me picturing red viennas... metallic taste... and mouth starts filling with saliva... ah well... terminally ill it is then
[deleted] but you can also look like you're autistic - hunched up and staring at your fretboard, with or without a trickle of drool running down your chin. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
