Thanks for the kind words, Bulls and Johnny.
Of course, I don't mean to suggest for an instant that I've achieved any sort of steady state enlightenment... let's just say that gaining
some control of how I react to things really helped me deal with my innate moodiness and more than occasional temper issues. (I was pretty much a terror when I was a kid.) When I ended up in the hospital for two months after a nasty wreckabout 5 years later when I was 29 (a car t-boned me on my motorcycle; their fault, not mine), a lot of my old friends seemed surprised that I was able to handle things with what some kind of equanimity. (Of course, it didn't hurt that I was tanked on morphine the first 3 or 4 weeks.
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I'll just say, if I hadn't got some control of my reactions to things around me, I don't think I'd be here to be boring and long winded...
And
back on topic...
larrykane -- I've been kicked off handclap detail in my own productions more than a couple timies. (The only thing that saved me the last time it came up was that someone showed me the 'trick' of leaving your 'subordinate' hand in one place and only moving your 'dominant' hand... which
did seem to tighten up my timing considerably... but there's no way my handclap overdubs would ever be too
on the money... that's something to aspire to, for me.