For better or for worse, this is typically my music experience. 

• Get hooked on a band
• Obsessively and exclusively listen to everything by that band for the next year
• Get sick of band

Get hooked on another band..etc…So I’ve still got another 8 or so months of Kottke in front of me.  Part of the obsession this time around is trying to play some of his stuff.  Here’s a go at Last Steam Engine Train.  Please, please do not listen to his version as it makes this sound like like a nickel arcade hurdy gurdy.  I tried to upload it to the Box.et place, hopefully it works.

http://www.box.net/shared/dktmjfsji5

I actually discovered something interesting while practicing this.  Before picking up guitar, I played banjo for a while which is where I learned how to pick.  Banjo picking uses 3 fingers.  Listening to other versions of this song, I couldn’t figure out how they were getting some much sound out of their picking.  After some research, I realized guitar picking is done with 4 fingers, including the ring finger.  The version I recorded uses 3 fingers, I’m trying to practice the same song using 4and it’s like if you grew another leg and had to relearn how to walk, very akward.  If I get it to a listenable state, I’ll post it.