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thanks you guys for putting forward your thoughts, it's a nice discussion and says a lot about everyone's preferences and style.

i bought some new PA speakers a few weeks ago and i'm really annoyed with the sound i'm getting from them, as i play (or played) guitar as well as vocal and backing tracks through them. i eventually got the vocals sounding OK-ish and the backing tracks sounding OK too. but the guitar sounded awful. so i started taking my peavy amp with me again, and i love the sound i'm getting!

till last night. i knew it was a small venue so i left the peavy at home. boy do i regret that decision! i kept twiddling knobs all night trying to get an acceptable sound, and failed. the amp comes regardless in future, as i get a great sound at any volume.

PS i only play electric at gigs. i used to play my acoustic before i started recording my own backing, so solo's weren't a concern, just a nice rhythm.

tea is refreshing, i also enjoy a coffee but as i get palpitations after, i try and keep my intake to one a month.

at airports i usually drink hot chocolate as both tea and coffee tastes like something a horse might leave in the street after a big meal!

hi TF, "stick it in your boot"? never heard that one before, i cant imagine what that means in yankese, but a boot here is what you wear on your feet and it's the bit that sticks out the back of your car what you call "the trunk". also noticeable differences; US "the hood" = UK the bonnet. US "jello" = UK jelly. US jelly UK = jam. fortunately, beer is the same in both countries.
also; German = bier
Turkish = bira
Spanish =  cervesa ? what?

yes TT, i try to forget my age too. they tell me by next year (i'll be 62) i wont be able to remember which string is E!

i did a gig last year and forgot to take my guitar! i felt naked singing without it and had to hum the solo's

just as an aside, i have a friend that does motown music. all his backing tracks are on his mobile phone, so that when he plays larger venues that have big PA systems, he just plugs in and away to go.

i've just decided that i hate vocalists. i've got 2 cases with FX, leads etc plus a guitar and amp. 2 large speakers and a mixer amp to carry in and out of venues, in the pouring rain, gale force winds 3 flights of stairs and a shed full of half drunk punters that wont get out of the way. then after the last song they want more....

hi aarbear98,

nice work. i kinda get the feeling this is meant to be a song, if so i'm sure everyone would like to see the chording. if you haven't written a tune to it you can ask the members if they'd like to put a melody as a collaboration, we've done these many times.

again nice work

phill

PS WE HELP NOT STEAL.

hi JT, i bought my 1st guitar at 14, back in 1965, so over the years i've picked up some bad habits. but one thing i've found is that when you play electric, open chords do seem to sound out of tune. what i do for the A chord is to barre my middle finger over three strings. this might make the open high E buzz a little, but i dont find it matters too much. for D chords i use finger tips, i know some people use the index finger for F# & A notes, but i find they also cause buzzing.

you might find that leaving the G string open whilst playing A chord, adds a different dimension.

this kind of proves my point, if guns were not easily available, because they are produced by the thousands for sale not just to good law abiding citizens, but also for terrorists and murderers. there is a lot of money made selling guns. the arms manufacturers are never held responsible for the carnage their weapons create. if the cretin that shot you had not been able to buy a weapon because it had not been mass produced then somehow got onto the black market, you might not have been shot, you wouldn't have needed to shoot the guy. then your family and his would not have been worrying about you in the emergency room. it could have been worse. you or he could have died. how would you feel about taking the life of another person? in the UK you might also have been up for prosecution. carrying a deadly weapon. causing actual bodily harm, etc. it may sound stupid and in some cases it is. but the law is there to protect everyone. what if you'd missed and hit an innocent bystander?

i'm sorry, but i cant get over the fact that you shot him 11 times? i thought guns only had 6 shots?

if he had known you were carrying your "glock" i wonder if he would have attacked you? i obviously dont know the circumstances of the attack, day/night, on the street at home, seeing as you were carrying a gun, maybe you should also have been wearing a bullet proof vest?

your story has not changed my mind. GUNS KILL

It doesn't rhyme cos I don't want it to rhyme. I feel this is too serious to frivolise it by rhyming. Please give your thoughts...and GIVE PEACE A CHANCE

nice bit of rock/blues there mister. i always knew you were a clever so-and-so. the picture in picture is really effective. love the riff

i was a bit dubious about the drum machine when you showed me the other night, but it sounds real nice.

phill

hi yaris, welcome to chordie

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phill