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You could do that as a grace note into the first verse, but I think that would leave the progression pretty unresolved if you ended on the V.

Thursday's Child is up on the mySpace, for anyone that cares.  I do the solo and show off my pentatonic wankery. 

Alright.

A 12 bar blues is a I IV V chord progression played over 12 bars.

A bar for our purposes, is one measure of 4/4 time.  You count common time as thus.

One Two Three Four
One Two Three Four

In tempo.  Because we are playing 12 bars, we will want to count our progression like this.

One Two Three Four
Two Two Three Four
Three Two Three Four
Four Two Three Four
Five Two Three Four

...

Eleven Two Three Four
Twelve Two Three Four

Simply strum on each beat for right now.

You'll play the chord progression as such.  Chords only change on the beginnings of the measures.   I've included the notes in the key of E major as an example.  You should use the chords appropriate for your favorite key.

One        I     E
Two        I     E
Three      I    E
Four       I     E
Five        IV   A
Six         IV   A
Seven     I     E
Eight       I     E
Nine       V    B
Ten        IV   A
Eleven    I     E
Twelve    I    E

Once you play it, you'll immediately recognize it.  It's the basis for literally thousands of songs.

I prefer to believe that there are just stupid people asking questions.

But to your point, this isn't one of them, either.

Somewhat of a disaster, but still some good points.

So, the guy doing the recording for us couldn't get the four track to record four tracks, so we ended up doing two track recording again.  But since we were in a larger room, we were able to mic everything better, and I was able to plug into a proper bass amp.   Then there was a misunderstanding of what we were looking to do.  We had planned on putting down four tracks, and printing a demo.  He though we were looking to put down 30 second segments of all our tracks, and make the demo out of that.

So in the end, we got two pretty good mixes of "I Miss Me" and "Circus Song" and a half assed mix of another track we do called "Price of Love."

Now the CD reader on my computer is busted, so I can't get them up on the myspace.  We've got enough to promote ourselves with, so we're going with it.  Drummer was sick last week, and I gave my tuner to the pretty waitress at the pizza joint we eat at.  So things are tough. 

New plan is we're going to use the MR-8 we have to do mulit-track recording.  We'll end up having to play each song three times to get it completely mixed, but I guess that's OK.

If you know the common notes of the two keys, then you can pick them.  A is common to both G and C, so that's a safe one.

In fact, G and C share all the same notes, except for F and F#. 

C D E G A B will work in both keys.

Tube amps are more efficient, and will give you more decibles per watt than a solid state device.  They sound better, too.

I never said you looked alright.
I never said you'd be Mr. Right.
And if I said "Hey! Spend the night!"
It was the alcohol talking...

CAGED applies to all keys, and is a great way to learn the entirety of the fretboard.   You can use CAGED to be within three frets of any chord on the neck.

It's a great system.

It's not the Gibson, but I love my Dot.  You've put a pretty accurate review, I think.   I get good tone out of my bass strings, though.  You're not going to get a growly crunchy sound out of it, regardless.  The ES-335 on which it's modeled doesn't give you that, either.  It's supposed to be more of a blues/jazz axe than a grider's tool.

I'm going to restring mine with some heavier .12 guage strings, and see if I can't fatten up the top end a little.

For sheer outrageous value, Hendrix doing The Star Spangled Banner.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6_dkoow5TM

Eddie Van Halen doing "Eruption" pretty much changed the way we think about guitar forever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_lwocmL9dQ

But just for pure "WTF was that!" outrageous, Shawn Lane never ceases to amaze.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhTHxkIllvU

Just to clarify, he's not playing hammer ons, there.  He's picking every note.

There really isn't a whole lot you can do from a legal standpoint.   I've always advocated that no one be able to start a thread as a first post, or at least put their first post in an "introduce yourself" thread.  I've seen both methods work to reduce the amount of spam on boards.  Ultimately, though, it requires the vigilance of good moderators, and the cooperation of the board membership.