Ode to Umlaut Steeled Napalm and----or Fretless and the path of Least Resistance

Much as the ancient deer hunter cut his ancient deer along the lines of its soft tissue and bone-structure (rather than anything resembling fractions or ratios), it's also a known archeological fact that the ancient flute maker was just as apt to cut the holes on their flutes according to the specific, conginital physical space between their own fingers rather any great cosmic overture or physiological blind obedience of the ear.....

That said, i was amused to notice today while absent-mindedly half-Christmas shopping, that this particular store's Guitar Hero action figures all had guitars with no frets or fret markers..........maybe someday, in some great Darwinesque inertia that's spiraling towards some for-better-or-worse contemporary evolutionary path of least resistance, frets and fret lines will simply be more trouble than they're worth, or an archaic, half-forgotten oddity from an odd and long bygone day.

Well,who knows........but reality is what it is, and with that in mind I salute thee, Lars Umlaut, Axel Steel, and Johnny Napalm......so you yon little plastic selfs and little inflexibly girded fretless guitar attachments-------------------------Let it Begin !