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Elvis Costello

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

CHAPTER

How to Play Without Any Emarrassment

I didn't set out to really write an instruction or manual so much as ways not to prevent yourself from having the pleasure of playing. And h the instant availability of it isn't necessarily preferable, because it makes you blase about how easy and that's all i'm trying to say. I'm not trying to say i know better than somebody much more skilled. There are more methodical ways one could learn. It was a reaction not being able to go out and do my regular job,. which is travelling around and playing the songs that i've gathered together over forty five years, maybe. We have two records that are prepared for release next year.

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And h the instant availability of it isn't necessarily preferable, because it makes you blase
Speaker 3
about how easy and that's, that's all i'm trying to say. I'm not trying to say i know better than
Speaker 2
somebody much more skilled. There
Speaker 3
are more methodical ways one could learn. And i didn't set out to really write an
Speaker 2
instruction or manual so much as ways not to prevent yourself from having the pleasure of playing. More
Speaker 3
importantly, just to play in the sense child that
Speaker 2
you play without any embarrassment, without
Speaker 3
caution.
Speaker 2
You jump off things you shouldn't jump off when you were a kid, and then you learn better that i got sprain my ankle if i do that, but you didn't half enjoy jumping off it when you were a kid. Whatever the thing is. And that's what i'm trying to so, to remind myself, as much as anything, even the age i am now, that this
Speaker 3
was, you know, i recorded this during the period we couldn't travel around so much. And i've done a lot of work in that time. I've made, i don't know, i think we counted them up between my producer, sebastion, chris and myself, i think we've worked on 11 records worth of music, that includes remixing in about catalogue that that have come out in the interim. We have two records that are prepared for release next year. And i think that was a reaction not being able to go out and do my regular job, which is travelling around and playing the songs that i've gathered together over forty five years, maybe.

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