bedeviled mojo slop

I've started ripping all the CDs from my 400 disc CD carousel. It's not a painful process, but ripping really requires you to devote the computer's resources to the ripping, otherwise it's slow.

It's been great re-discovering all this music.

Also, the acoustic and electric guitars are wired into the computer and ready to go when it strikes my fancy. I've forgotten how many great songs there are to play along with. Highlights include, but not limited to (in no particular order):

• Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend: I love every single lead guitar part throughout this song. It's why I learned it all note for note.
• Meat Puppets - Backwater
• Tom Petty - You Wreck Me: I want to buy a Telecaster just to play Tom Petty songs.
• Led Zeppelin - The Ocean: It's hard to pick any Zeppelin song as a favorite to play. They're all good. Jimmy Page could've stopped after "Good Times, Bad Times". I mean ... damn. Maybe the only cover of "Good Times, Bad Times" worth a damn has been done by Phish. But, I could be wrong.
• Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock
• Jimi Hendrix - Red House: In 3:50, Jimi said and played everything I could ever want to hear in the blues. This song is the reason I really started playing guitar. "'Cause if my baby don't love me no more, I know her sister will." Just ... wow.
• Primus - Wynona's Big Brown Beaver: Primus is just fun. Also, their cover of Pink Floyd's "Have A Cigar" off Miscellaneous Debris is spot on.
• Van Halen - Hot for Teacher: I should be so lucky as to approach any Van Halen song with the ol' 6 string. There's a reason Eddie Van Halen is one of the greatest guitarists of all time, this is just one of those reasons.
• Soundgarden - Outshined
• Jane's Addiction - Mountain Song: I need to listen to this snowboarding at some point. Cliched? Yes. Kick ass song? You betcha.

Well, just a sample there. Back to the ripping.