Hallo. Ron Wood here. I recently got myself one of these computers ’cause it was just getting too hard to live without one. I was always the last one to get the news. Mick and Keef email each other scheduling stuff and nobody ever gets ’round to telling ol’ Woody about anything. Thanks, guys. Anyway, I took my laptop down to the pub (don’t tell Mick, he thinks I’m in rehab), where they have wi-fi so I could check my email. I still don’t have the internet in my house. So I get this email from a mate of mine. In the mail he tells me about this cool thing he found on the web and that I should “click on the link.” Well, fuck me, I’ve never done anything like that before. I clicked it an’ this whole other screen comes up. It looks like it’s gonna do something, but then it doesn’t, so I sit there and wait for it. I’m not sure if this is what it’s supposed to do, but I know there ain’t nothing cool about it.
I wrote my mate back to tell him that his link was either broke or it wasn’t very cool. He wrote me back almost instantly. I can’t believe people these days. Do they ever turn their computers off? Anyway, he told me I might need to upgrade Flash to make the thing work. I don’t have to tell you that I had no idea what a Flash was, so I wrote him back to tell him and he sends me back a list of instructions with bullet points and everything. When did everybody start doing stuff like that? I thought it was just Mick.
I followed his list and I finally got the damn thing to work. And he was right, it is pretty cool. It’s some kind of sound manipulation. I don’t know how any of this stuff works–for all I know there’s little elves playing guitars in my laptop. But if it’s elves, they take instruction well.
I wish I had something like this on the side of my guitar. I could make it sound like anything. well, maybe not anything, but at least better than Keef. Not that that’s hard.
Anyway, I gotta get back now. I just thought you should see this too. Don’t forget to check out some of the other links there. This internet thing just might catch on.
I’m confused Ronnie. Is this your new internet home because I’ve been following you on RonnieWoodBlog.com.
You talk different too. Should I call you Ronnie or Woody? Looks like you use both. And do you prefer “Hi All” or “Hallo?”
And all of a sudden you’re internet literate where as the RonnieWood.com and RonnieWoodBlog.com site are pretty damn sophisticated.
WTF?
Anyway, thought the Flash guitar site was boring but it did link to a Tone Wheels dealie that I dug.
So keep up the good work and do something about this personality disorder dude!
Hey, mate. I don’t really have much to do with the technical side of the blog. My publicist set it up (that’s what I pay her for!) and does most of the updating. I just hand her things I scribble down on scraps of paper or cocktail napkins. Actually, an appalling number of my updates are on cocktail napkins.
As far as what to call, me, that’s up to you. Most of the people who work for me seem to call me Ronnie, but my old chums, like Keef and Rod, call me Woody. That’s a much better name than some of things I call them!
You’re the best Wonny (sorry can’t decide!). I shouldn’t have doubted you.
I’ll follow your alcoholic old rocker words of wisdom anywhere on the net you choose to go.
Love the hair btw. Oh one more thing, can I call you Justin?
I think if you call me Justin I won’t remember that you’re talking to me, so that’s probably a bad idea. Wonny is probably OK because I’ll either think that you have an Elmer Fudd speech impediment or that I just misheard you. As you can imagine, I mishear a lot of things after all these years of playing.