Member 'macaroni' recently bought
PlaneTalk and posted the message below at the PlaneTalkers' Forum ... he said he wouldn't mind me pasting it here. Thanks, macaroni!
"I finally got my copy of PlaneTalk (+ DVD) on Saturday, along with the Slide DVD and the Brass slide.
No light bulbs went off as I began reading PlaneTalk - it was more like the 4th of July with each successive page!!!
Like many of you here, I clearly knew about all of these elements, but I just didn't see how it all fit together and what it really meant. I am so blown away, I can hardly think about anything else.
This knowledge has breathed new life into my guitar playing like no other other musical information I've come across. I've been stuck at a minor Pentatonic plateau for years, trying to break through the Blues box shapes that have guided (and limited) my playing since the mid 60s.
Now I finally feel that I can begin improvising melodically from my heart/soul, instead of just patching together a sequence of safe riffs, and not really knowing what I was doing musically.
Kirk, I can't thank you enough for sharing this with all of us. I am forever in your debt. You will definitely be getting a credit on my CD, whenever it finally comes out (now I really feel inspired to finish it!)."