How many hours did Elliott practice?

[pwnimo]

Yo charley,

How many hours did Elliott practice his instruments? (Guitar, vocals, etc)

I remember from an interview that he never practices drums.

Thanks.

[consisting]

elliott talked about practicing for hours trying to learn 'some fingerpicking song' with a friend of his at the time (young elliott.. middle school?) and has often said that he played while watching tv. coupled with comments about his sometimes obsessive behaviour and habits (as was mentioned in autumns book) im sure he was just as obsessive about guitar as he was about running a joke into the ground again, and again, and again.

i imagine he practiced multiple hours a day, im sure partly in a semi structured form to get faster/etc/learn and practice songs and also in the way of just playing around to write his own songs.

i think playing electric guitar in heatmiser influenced his acoustic sound.

[Hummingbird]

Yo charley,

How many hours did Elliott practice his instruments? (Guitar, vocals, etc)

I remember from an interview that he never practices drums.

Thanks.

25 hours a day.

you'll never be like him.












:O












;)

[consisting]

his right hand had 16 fingers.

FACT.

[pwnimo]

Did anything I said previously point out that I wanted to be just like him?

[McCoy]

No, it was a joke.

[pwnimo]

sur, dis is a sirious topik.

:tongue:


Did Elliott like Chipotle? -_-

[McCoy]

Do you know the burrito story?

[pwnimo]

Do you know the burrito story?

Interested.. Please tell.

[Hummingbird]

I spent two weeks in Silver Lake [in Los Angeles] in August or September of 2002 finishing up [the Postal Service's Give Up] with Jimmy Tamborello and hanging out with Jenny Lewis, who I had invited to be part of the record. We were hanging out and recording, and we went to get food at this little burrito joint in Los Feliz, one of those places where you can't sit inside and there are three tables out front. I remember going in and ordering some food, and there was thhis little jar where every week you could put your name in, and if your name got picked, you could get a free burrito. There was a sign behind the jar that said BURRITO OF THE WEEK, it said, ELLIOTT SMITH. I remember looking up there and being amused for a couple of reasons. Number one, that this seminal, brilliant singer/songwriter would do something that anybody off the street would do, like, you'd see this jar and think, "I'm going to write my name on this card like everybody else and win a free burrito." I just had this kind of funny image in my head of him going into this burrito joint, thinking if he's going to go there and put his name into a hat to win a free burrito, he probably goes here fairly frequently, you know? I just wanted to be there so badly. I wanted to see him see his name on the board, that he'd won a free burrito, and just knowing that even though he was in a bad way, he'd be happy that he won a free burrito. Everybody likes to win stuff.
- Ben Gibbard

[pwnimo]

Fucking damnit.


Why was Elliott so goddamn cool?

I miss him.