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After a few of the local ciders most people find that "walking," "forwards" and "straight line" are words that are unconnected; however, most of these seem to manage spurts of moonwalking impeccably while trying to attempt the above.

Hey Siggi56!

I'm not allowed to say here what I think of the 'personage' who told you it was an insult to your audience to cry.

First off you are a musician - a purveyor of emotion through the medium of sound. If you don't try your own product how's anyone else supposed to take your word for it? If you don't feel it how can you convey it?

Come to think of it that's it!

I cry or get choked up often when I play. Sometimes it's what the song means to me; sometimes it's the song itself; sometimes, if there's a song that I've been wanting to learn for years (sometimes decades), cracking it can crack me - perhaps that is arrogant of me or prideful at least, don't know haven't thought about it, not gonna bother, got better things to do!

Songs which feature artits crying or emotional voice cracks include:

Michael Jackson - She's out of My Life  (one of his best)

Sinead O'Conner - Nothing Compares to You

Is there anyone who can listen to either Elgar's Nimrod from the Enigma Variations or Kate Bush's This Woman's Work without getting a lump in the throat? (If you don't it's best you say nothing! Likewise if you Beavis and Butthead -out at the mention of the word 'Nimrod')

Just now while trying to find the name of the above mentioned Kate Bush song I digressed into another of hers all of which I could remember was
"...all they wanted
was a sound that could kill someone
from a distance.." ( less than one line, Per)
and when I saw those words looking back at me in the Google search window I started to well up. Perhaps it was the perversion of everything that I hold sacred - a child's laugh, my dog barking 'cause he's pleased to see me, hearing the words 'I love you' or a song from the heart, etc is what sound should be about!!!

Don't fight it but use it - it will use you so get used to a symbiotic relationship.

If what siggi56 or I have written embarrases you or you think that it's wet, I just have to say - "This is Chordie a site for musicians, are you sure you're in the right place?"

Good on yer siggi56!

Hey Daddycool!

Tried the link but the video's been withdrawn/blocked/correct IT Term that I don't know!

Great song, any chance of posting the chords?

Thanks in hope!

Stay Daddycool

Hey Tony!

On top of the excellent comments from Alvee33 I would add that an electric with some Overdrive/Distortion and a bit of 'Verb or Chorus or Delay or all 3 or more/different can hide a lot of sins.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not being Acousticist/Electricist here, I'm talking about when you first pick up the guitar for a playing session. As the sound you produce (on top of what/how you play) is largely governed by electronic sonic enhancement of one sort or another (longwinded way of saying Preamp/FX) you only have to play an open string for the sound to be just right and it 'warms you into' playing.

With an unplugged Acoustic, all sound is down to how you play the guitar.

Beyond this everything is pretty much what Alvee said: Acoustic action usually higher meaning harder to fret notes and much harder to do string bends, etc.

If you want play both, do just that. An hours practice devided equally between Electric and Acoustic (maybe after spending a little more time with Acoustic to catch up).

It certainly isn't you! I consider myself an extremely proficient guitarist (can play in front of almost any audience, make them like me and make them think I'm good (some people are easy to fool)) but give me an electric and I sound crap!

Playing both is like being ambidextrous - which I'd give my right arm to be!

Hey Ken!

Do you mean that multi, multi-millionaire triangle player?

Apparently it makes him a musician, don't cha know!

S-Club 7!

Windsor Davies and Don Estelle!

Bob the Builder - Can we fix it?

Are the strings going the correct way round the tuning post? This can make a huge difference and is the simplest and cheapest solution if wrong. It's surprising how many experienced players can get this wrong.

With a Fender type headstock, all the strings should wrap round the post anti-clockwise - i.e. the string should be in line with the centre of the headstock (underneath the post as you hold guitar in playing position).

With 3 pegs per side (Gibson Les Paul/SG/most Acoustics) the bottom 3 strings should be done as before and the top 3 opposite to that.

With Classical/Jazz guitars where the tuning post is horizontal they should go over the the top and wrap round underneath.

Hey Lieven.

I AM a producer - not one of these current types who aren't musical enough or technical enough to be either a musician or an engineer but want the respect/glory that goes with the title, but someone who can bring a project together on time and on budget.

The skills required are a knowledge of studio engineering (I used to teach 3rd year degree students who knew nothing more about recording than using a computer how to be engineers in a professional studio where a computer is only part of the set-up), a knowledge of the media you are doing the project for (I've done film soundtrack, radio play soundtrack, actors vox demo (basically spoken word recording including dummy radio adverts, extracts from talking books and voice-over for things like corporate training films) and musical projects ranging from classical solo recordings and religious music to hardcore Hip Hop and I haven't done everything!!!) an ability to inspire/excite a performance (I've used drama games/exercises to get THAT performance), a love of whatever you're working on and a good knowledge of music (I've created complete orchestrations for solo artists based only on piano score) if working in that field.

I came up with an adage about producing - "The art of being a good producer is handling being a control freak. The art of being a GREAT producer is no-one knowing you are a control freak!"

I hope this answers your first question.

For the second: a, Think of a band you really like who've done more than 2 albums and decide which you think is the best album. Look at the album credits under producer and there's your answer. b, Find names of producers and a list of their catalogue of work and work out who's done more albums that you really like. c, Let other people tell you (cop out answer).

As a producer, Simon Cowell knows what works/sells but I've heard that he registered with the Musician's Union as a triangle player to get musician royalties from his projects as if the producer's fee wasn't enough and I've never heard of him being alone in the studio with an artist and no engineer(s), tape op(s) etc - says it all!!!

Hey LPG.

In the 80's and early 90's I used to bleach my hair and everyone said I looked like Billy Idol, but my mate said "No he's his brother Bone!"

(TRUE)

Hey guys!

Thanks for asking after me. Yep, VERY busy. Folk festival and lots of campers, building a thunderbox (coulda done with some help from Mr. Segal; you wouldn't think building a toilet could put your safety/life in jeapardy!?!? but people never fail to astound and it does stop life becoming dull)

I was hanging fire from spending time here as I have/had a major music related project that I wanted to tell you all about, but I'm not sure now if that is going to happen - best laid plans, eh.

Had a gig at a new venue on Saturday (new to me) called the Tom Moggs, named after the last station master from the station over the road who used to spend most of his time in the pub! Good grief it's a HUGE place; you wouldn't think a pub out in the middle of nowhere could be so big! There with the Monday night jam crew. We went down well and are going back as a regular thing.

Thanks again for thinking of me! I'm off to put some paint on this 'house belong pek-pek!'

Hey Siggi56!

Great intro!

Crap about your health, great to have you aboard!

Always burn at NO MORE than 2 x speed; 1 x is better.

People will argue.

To them I retort: - "Do your CDs play fine for a while and then skip and display other effects of glitches?" (usually get a "Yes!" here) "That's because you burned them too quickly on cheap CDs!" (Usually I get a "NOOO!" here, but............

(See first line!)