Statistics are Stupid

Where to start on Boomer’s last post? I guess first off, who cares what guitar they are playing as long as it sounds good. Statistics are not what this blog should be about, but since that is the direction we are going, look forward to my next post, a regression analysis of which is the greater act, Sonseed or Montgomery Flea Market, while both have their respective merits and obvious demerits, I look forward to an excel spreadsheet telling me which one I like more.

Second, your so called statistical analysis is so inherently flawed I hardly know where to start. You take a subjective list and use this for some sort of correlation which is then supposed to provide some kind of insight. There is a direct correlation between shoe size and intelligence; does this mean that people with abnormally large feet tend to be smarter than those with average feet? No, it means that grown ups are smarter than babies. Until you do a Granger causality test your correlation means nothing to me.

Next by breaking this into solos and not artists the fact that Jimi Hendrix played a Fender counts as much in this debate as the combined weight of Jerry Garcia, Mark Knophler, Pete Townshend, B.B. King, Jerry Cantrell, and Carlos Santana. This is downright silly, and any list that provides the same weight to Jerry Garcia and Richie Sambora is seriously flawed. Heather Locklear and Denise Richards are hot and all but give me a break.

Did you know that if 23 people are in a room there is a greater than 50% chance that two of them will have the same birthday. What light does this shed on which is better, a Gibson or a Fender? About the same as Boomer’s post, absolutely none, we are still living in darkness after that post, but we won’t get the time in our lives it took us to read it back.

On a happier note I would tell you I saw a show that blew my mind a few months back, David Byrne at Meymandi Hall in Raleigh, the sound was awesome, setlist rocked, choreography was amazing, one negative was the beer line was atrocious, but overall one of the best shows I have seen in years, and I have no idea what kind of guitar he was playing, as it should be. In the immortal words of John Bell, “if it feels good we shake.” Ain’t that how we should judge it? Definitely see David Byrne if you can, he has aged incredibly well and still rocks, white tutus and all. And if you have never see Stop Making Sense, rent it now.

Also, unrelated but I am sick as hell of thinking Warren Zevon is coming on the Radio and having it end up being Kid Rock. Nüdge out.