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  1. YES! I totally agree! While I’ve got partially finished songs that are thirty years old (and I haven’t found where I want to go next with them), I’ve got others that almost appeared out of thin air and I wrote them in a few hours or less. Our songs (the human mind) can wander in many different directions (some having no connection to the start of the journey) before they finally find their way home. Just keep writing and playing.
  2. Like many in here, I’ve owned too many guitars to remember. I currently have 6-7 that I really have bonded with and a few others that just sit in their cases or hang on the wall. Don’t know if I own the guitars or if they own me. I just know that I’m driven to play them at what ever level I can. I feel that my guitars are a real extension of who I am as a person. Playing them helps me pass the time, get myself out of an “old dude” funk, makes me try to teach this old dog a new trick, gets my creative juices flowing when I’m writing. I just feel better about life when I’m playing my guitars. Perhaps the emotional attachment means that they own me. They’ve introduced me to a lot of very nice people and they contribute to making me a better and happier person. So, whatever the facts are, I’m just glad I’m playing.
  3. WHAT-THE-HELL! Where’s my name on that list………….Oh, never mind. I’m thinking of a different list.
  4. True, Lars, many songs are never finished. Especially if they are personal or nostalgic songs. BTW, I really like the chorus of this song.. ……………….A few of my songs are almost forty years old and still available to be changed. Sometimes at a gig, I’ll have to pause or play some instrumental run while I figure-out if I’m singing a new lyric, or sticking with the old. Either way, it’s all about enjoying and sharing the music. Have fun, my friend!
  5. Guitars are like women. You can’t have too many and they are all capable of giving you good wood.
  6. In the future there won’t be any guitars, etc. No hacks, no pros. Just songs written and played expertly by AI. Musical instruments will be found in museums. I’m glad I’m here now.
  7. In the mid-50s, when I was 9-10, my dad took me to a bar called The Chestnut Inn ( years later became a strip joint called The Shady Lady). He went to high school with the guy who owned it (Joe Spinello). The guy let us in through the kitchen to see Johnny Cash & The Tennessee Two. I didn’t know anything about Cash then ({my dad was a fan), but I still remember how people were packed-in to the joint and how the women were screaming his name. I believe that made a real impression on me (guitar= babes)…..In my high school days (a few years ago), I’d sit on the steps after school got out and strum Peter, Paul & Mary songs. Even though I was a guitar hack (about the same as now), girls who normally wouldn’t even say much to me would stop and talk with me. I got a lot of dates out of it. I’m never offended if I’m referred to as a guitar hack. “I yam what I yam, and that’s all that I yam.” I’m self-taught through years of “trial and error” and am now at a point where I can find the fingerpicking melody for anything I want to do instrumentally and I understand where to go up-and-down the neck for solo breaks of my own songs. Certainly not anything special as I keep it simple and have a lot of fun……For me, it’s all about having fun….Plus, it’s good therapy for the brain.
  8. Yeah, I’m not into the politics of an artist I might like. I don’t care for much of Springsteen’s politics, but I really like several of his songs and his shows are non_political.. As you stated, it’s the song that’s important…….Yes, guys like us are just hacks. “Hack” sounds more manly than amateur, so I’m happy to be a hack….
  9. The influence of The Beatles cannot be denied. I like a lot of their songs. Especially the folksy ones. There were/are lots of great bands (Beatles, Stones, Beach Boys, Ventures (among my rock & roll favorites) and countless 1-2 hit wonders that no one could match on their particular hits.. It depends on what each of us like. Along with all the great bands you’ve got folks like Dylan, Cash, Prine, Clark, Cohen, who were literally their own genres. If it tells a human story, I’ll likely enjoy it.
  10. “Tell me what you want!,” he said as he flipped her G string with finger. ‘She moaned and said, “I want my guitar back.”
  11. Like most, I just adjust to the spacing. I prefer 1.75-1.68. However the narrower spacing (for example, LUNA GUITARS) has made me be more precise when I play, instead of being lazy and sloppy.
  12. Same here…….after years of fingerpicking, I can play any string with my thumb/index/f-off finger. I’m kind of interested in one of those guitar bows (so you can kind of make your guitar sound like a fiddle). But who-in-hell knows…lol….I’m good at just talking and dreaming.
  13. SGT., nothing on my bird pick guard, except sweat, coffee stains, and maybe some chocolate chip cookie smudges. The guard is just the way I bought it. Of course, I’m 99% a fingerpicker, so I don’t necessarily hit to very often or hard. However, on my Montana Gold J200 (not flubberguard), within a week of having it, i noticed that the paint was a little lighter where I rest my little finger on the pick guard, so I put some clear high gloss lacquer on it and it’s fine now……..I don’t know is the flubberguard material does anything to the sound. If it does or doesn’t, makes no difference to me…………I just think the Gibsons with fancy pickguards are too damn expensive for the design to quickly disappear. https://imgur.com/a/Kkpnkca
  14. This is my pick guard. The “bird is almost 20-years old. It’s been played countless times.. I don’t know what your pickguard’s material is, but this is the often-maligned “flubberguard.” It’s like the day I got it. ….. I’m like you. I want the pick guard to look great. For me, the appearance of the Hummingbird is definitely part of its appeal. Besides, you’re paying for the fancy pickguarsd.
  15. Yeah, it’s a pretty sweet place…….. Sadly, I’ve met folks who don’t know who Mark Twain is.
  16. I’ve made promises like that….lol
  17. Often, when someone told Chet that his guitar sure sounded great, he’d lay it on the table and ask, “How does it sound now?”
  18. If you have oceanfront property, we’ll be living on a house boat, fishing for food…….lol
  19. Love his book and music. A really decent guy. No big scandals, no outrageous behavior. Kept his personal life “personal.” Knew how to make a human connection with his songs. A quiet superstar.
  20. If you like the guitar, don’t sweat what anyone else is saying. Just play it and enjoy.
  21. Sorry, my knowledge for rock is greatly lacking after the mid-70’s onward. Never heard of Warrant. Aside from a handful of names/groups, I just didn’t listen. In regards to RAP, it created its own reputation. No one did it but the rappers and the money behind them. I agree on the “groupies.” I’ve got a few when I play Wilshire Rehab Center & Retirement. I figure that we all listen to what we enjoy.
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