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I don't know the age of the other chordians, I am 51 years, and I guess that the age of members here, is hanging somewhere around 40 YEARS

I use what I have, mostly it are MARTIN strings, and personnally I prefer the ultralights, even hitting your strings hard, will become easy. In the beginning, I used thicker strings, but my fingers didn't agree, but if you take time and be careful, you start getting careful after a while, you can keep your strings complete.
- BUT WHEN IS IT TIME TO CHANGE STRINGS
- HOW LONG ARE STRINGS GOOD, NOT USING THEM YET, SO STILL UNPACKED?

Well UPYERKILT, as legal heir of the American TRONE, at this moment living bannished in Belgium, I owe you and your team a lot. AM I GLAD the day I discovered this site. When I was at first a "junior member" I have seen the number of members increasing. It must be a hell of a job, you have: is this your fulltime job? Because I think to control and guide this site, I can just find a few words: SUPERJOB, nothing is too much, and if there is 1 "lousy" problem, or 1 stupid question,( I always say there are no stupid questions, only stupid answers) you try to solve it, or at least you get a decent answer.
I used to be Medical Doctor, but I told it already, got a unbelievable car crash, hitting FRONTAL a tree who crossed the road. Never lost conscience, good for me because they would send me to another hospital, and I had 32 fractures in my left foot: LOGICAL TREATMENT was amputation, but in the hospital, which I could choose, not being unconscieus, they SAVED my foot, operation 3 WEEKS later, because too ugly and bad. I also had an exploded vertebra in my lower back (in 5 pieces, and one piece pushes against my spinal chord) provocing a paralysis. I started again parcatising 10 months later agains advise, and I , hoping to continue for a few years, had to stop. That experience as a doctor helped me a lot, concerning questios people asked, because we are always intended to say, just because it is so obvious for us, that people ask silly question. I had 1 priority, if someone asks you something, even if he asks where his nose is, he deserves a decent answer, because he asked something he wanted to know. So in that same hospital, considered as the best in EUROPE, especially for heartsurgery and neurosurgery, they also didn't an intervention concerning that verteber. I LIVE, AND MY LIVING STYLE HAS CHANGED 100%, cliché: YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE. But I am dependant of so many little things, and I can not accept what I have, I just HAD to stop practising, too much pain and suffering, loosing conscience in a patients house, more and more and especially when the end of the week was coming, the verdict was, I knew it already months before, STOP. You know that in 2006, after the 6th intervention, hoping that everything would go better (a real miscalculation) I was even accepted as captain, senior officer of the medical equipe on a cruise boat, but they had the right to contact my fysicians and it was ZIP at last. Sorry for this long story, but I am able now, because I don't work to share all info I can, even here: never give up, everyday is another day.
I am one very happy guy who discovered by accident this site, and I can spend a long time here.
By the way what do you have to do to become moderator?

WHAT CHORDS BECAUSE THERE IS NOTHING IN YOUR MESSAGE TO GIVE YOU A DECENT ANSWER

dear James
Thanks for answering. That is what's so good ON THIS FORUM. NOBODY ASKS "STUPID" QUESTIONS. I do agree when you get older, you know a LOT MORE, and the posed question looks mad, remember how we were back than between let's say 16 & 22 years old. MORE, we had to try everything out, and the choice in guitars was easier. You entered a store, if you tried a fender : STRAT or TELE, the tele was even cheaper in early seventies.
Gibson: les paul & SG and sometimes brands I don't recall.
It was NOT done to say I have a stratocaster or a gibson, like the cola now. PEPSI or COCA COLA

Dear cytania
I agree 100% with you, I call it the "no money to spend" syndrome. People buy a car for 2000$, and they put more than you think, for 5000$ extra a very loud soundsystem in it. I don't point or blame people. It is more the companies you should blame. Like you told, you see CLAPTON, with his "blackie" and a lot of people are still convinced that they will "play better" just by, buying, having and playing that specific guitar, same with the LES PAUL JIMMY PAGE, is THAT INSTRUMENT worth the price? Don't forget he is endorsed by GIBSON and it is 1 commercial businness, gibson wins, and the buyer, mostly a PAGE fan, is happy. It is a difficult matter

The Big Rockfestival is called ROCK WERCHTER. The guy who organised it, is now CEO, because an American Holding purchased it for a big $$$$$$$ price. It takes place in BELGIUM, go to EUROPE, and yes, that little spot over there is BELGIUM. You can check it out on the internet. BUT FOR ME fun is over since 1996, at first the festival was at 2 places, the same artists performed on the other saturday, and on sunday it took place where I was asked to be "the doc", and really those were the days. It is even so stupid and childish, because there are no more people backstage than needed, the press was somewhere else, and sometimes, they came backstage to do an interview. The organisator has a lot of credits in making a few little bands BIG. U2 became world famous, thanks to the festival and the time he put in U2, concerning other gigs, publicity. You are maybe VERY, SUPER GOOD, but you always need someone to cross the street. Same thing with REM. Look back 40 years ago, Jimi Hendrix was a very good player, and had a little fame in the USA, but it is only when he went to Europe, and there the "hype" started. The point of working at a festival like that is that there is a strict limit, NO PRESS, NO PEOPLE not belonging there. For us, who worked there, it was every year the same, we looked forward to see each other, speaking of no more than 10 people. The artists knew that too, and were at least acting as themselves, just regular guys from around the corner. You always have exceptions, and so it was absolute not unusual they started talking to you, and I assure, it feels strange that you are discussing with Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, Mark Knopfler about the things of life. I tried to stand with my 2 feet on the ground, and I know a lot of medical problems and conditions of a lot of them, but you can think or tell whatever you want, soon or later you start "floating", and the energy and talent of these guys are affecting you. I would be a BIG LIAR if I told that I didn't care. And watching these groups playing (I was often in a corner on stage) is very contagious, you start feeling yourself as a star. I swear that standing there, watching 100.000 people with lights, and shouting, singing along is unbelievable. It is really a moment in life that is burned forever in your brain.

I think that songwriting on command is not "that" easy. They always tell that you need 10% inspiration and 90% transpiration.
The strangest story I've heard concerning songwriting is that on a "bright sunny day" Andrew Loog Oldham, at that time manager and more, of the ROLLING STONES, closed up JAGGER ANDF RICHARDS in a room, and they were only allowed to leave that room if they had enough songs.
My theory is that if everyone starts writing, which is still VERY POSSIBLE, you will discover "PEARLS" between a mot of rabbish. Second phase is, try to REMEMBER the tune. It is easier now, because of all songrecording devices, from small to big. A good one is for me BOSS MR BR 4 tracks and very small. Maybe somebody has a idea to fabricate a kind of device, size of a watch (without the material to put it around your wrist, and you can put it on every instrument. It absorbs the vibrations made by your instrument, you can let's say 5GB record on it, and with USB, present in your device, you are able to put the recordings on a PC, for extra working on it. Using a small kind of record device, you just stick it on an instrument of your choice, you play, it records. So the chance of, when playing alone and you have just found a superriff, a riff you are not able to recall, even 5 minutes later, the small device has the riff. FINISHED to get angry because you forgot the way you played it.
Rolling Stones again: BRIAN JONES, the REAL FOUNDER of the Rolling Stones, at that moment I wouldn't like to stand in his shoes. There are probably a lot of "personal reasons", he was the cute one, seeing how his group, neglected him, and being very talented as player, took all the credits.
Same with Harrisson, who was always aside, but wrote UNFORGETABLE songs, like "here comes the sun, while my guitar gently weeps and one of the best songs ever written, and covered SOMETHING. It has to be a nightmare: "georgieboy, you write bullshit". Last thing, in the 70thies, you had an unbreakable team: CHIN and CHAPMAN, writing songs for Suzy Quattro, The Sweet, Mud. They wrote a lot of songs. THE TROGGS, under Reg Presley, wrote "love is all around" and I remember me him telling: thanks to WET WET WET, who played this song for the movie 4 weddings and a funeral, he said that he didn't need no longer to count his money, because those guys just made my day, for having a good pension.