Ohhhh! You’re in San Antonio!
Words cannot express how much I miss real fajitas. 
It doesn’t matter what kind, either . . . vegetarian . . . beef . . . chicken . . . it’s just not the same anywhere else.
And now, back to our regularly scheduled thread . . .
Is it surprising that I was distracted by a Lambchop fraternising with a chundering wabbit?
No…in this case, I guess not…you are excused…
As an addendum, a friend just passed along this little tidbit:
http://www.anl.gov/Media_Center/Explorer/Summer_2005/feature_1_p1.html
The “blue” notes refered to here are only briefly touched in Benade.
Enjoy
Sometimes when you are playing a tight musical passage, there isn’t room for the note to fit in, so you have to bend it to make it fit. Sorta like undertakers do when they get a body that’s too tall.
For some weird reason, that seems to make perfect sense…
kinda grows on ya, don’t he?
why i bend notes might not necessarily be to get a note to fit any scale at all, but perhaps to break out of a ‘scale-ized’ approach to music making, or maybe to break a pattern of notes by injecting a bit of unpredictability and creativity. for instance a slightly flat shading to a note can put a bit of funk into a tune, especially done randomly.
i don’t think there are any rules that would explain this.
what comes to mind are some great old time itm fiddlers who sort of played that way, some say they had quirky intonation but i’d say they just might be a couple steps ahead of the gang…or maybe behind…