Over on the CBJE: Song By Song blog, Phil Marshall, former guitarist for the Colorblind James Experience is going over the songs from their eponymous album, one by one. In the bit about "Walkin My Camel Home" he recalls Chuck Cuminale (a.k.a. Colorblind James, the, sadly departed, leader of the band) and his attitude towards musical theory:

Chuck didn't care much for music theory or any displays on a musician's part to show how much musical 'knowledge' he had. While he occasionally played 9th chords on his guitar, he didn't show much interest in harmonic embellishments to basic major and minor chords. In typical fashion, after getting worked up about something and hearing me strum a C Major 7 chord, he declared emphatically "That chord is a lie!" It's sole purpose was to make people feel a certain emotion that didn't really exist.

I love that.