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NOW you're catching on. 

Probably true.  John could strum, but George was the real guitar player in the band.  John was (IMO) a better pianist than guitarist.  And it would not surprise me to hear that Paul was a better guitarist than John.

But back to your original story about Mick and Keith, I had heard (long before Al Gore invented the internet) that Mick and Keith met in a record store when they were both interested in buying the same Muddy Waters album.  I guess Keith's letter tells a different story.

Another story I heard one time (although it may not be true) is that when Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons were forming KISS, Ace Frehley walked into the audition wearing shoes which did not match.  They supposedly hired him without hearing him play a single note.

Hello, vic.  First off, I admire anyone who can play in front of a crowd.  My family and friends say i should do that but I don't feel like I'm good enough (nor is it likely that I will EVER think I am good enough), but that's just me.  I always tip "buskers" because I admire their nerve.

So, having never played in front of a crowd, i can't offer advice on that, but I have been in audiences countless times.  Russell gives good advice, i.e., play what you want to play, but if you really want to engage the crowd and increase your "revenue" (tips), be prepared to play requests as well.  Get a few good (thick) fake books to cover a myriad of songs, so you might at least attempt to play some songs that you don't know if somebody asks you to.

Good luck, and be sure to stop back in and tell us how your job is going.

GW:

First, welcome to the forum.  This is likely the BEST first post anyone other than Admin has ever entered on this forum.  Just guessing.

Second, This is an EXCELLENT piece of work.  Thanks so much for sharing it with us.  We have MANY more forum lurkers than forum posters, so I'd venture to guess this will help thousands of people who see it and save it, even if they don't acknowledge or thank you for it.

Third, a question:  when you enter chords into the search bar, do you need to put spaces after the commas, or does it matter?

Once again, well done, and thanks!

PS:  Chordians - if you haven't noticed yet, another cool feature about this is that if you enter an invalid chord, you get a little pop-up bubble that tells you it is invalid before you actually hit the search button.  I found this by accident when I inadvertently deleted the space and the comma between two of the chords.  It told me that "GEm" is invalid.  pretty slick!

Good question.  I didn't think about that, but now that I have, I don't think so.  He also mixed in familiar open and barre shapes, which likely wouldn't have worked in alternate tuning.

It was probably the beer.  I should have snapped a photo with my phone.

Yeah.  Don't go there.  Please.

Oh yeah.  That'd be freakin' hilarious.

Although, I'd have to hand it to you if you were.  The degree of off-thread collusion you must be involved in is pretty impressive.  I'd take consolation in the fact that you spent way too much time and energy just to screw with me.

Much better.  You're right.  It needed a context.

Sorta reminds me of the first time I heard an A/B as 7x765x.  Thought it sounded really dischordant until I heard it followed by a B as 79987x.

Alternate that a few times and follow it with an Ab to A (E shape barre on  4 and up to 5) and you get the intro to "I'm Not In Love" by 10cc.  Great song with some interesting sounds.

Exactly.  The only way I know to play an OPEN Eb is to tune down a half step and play an open E.

Twangtown may know something we don't.  Maybe that's why it's such a difficult chord. 

That shape is especially useful becase it works all the way up the neck.  Or, if you want the full chord, after the next fret you can get the full 7th chord with the middle four strings (C7 shape):  x3231x

I always liked music, but was never a fan of the blues.  However, when I got serious about playing guitar, I quickly learned to appreciate it.  SRV is probably not the BEST blues guitarist whoever lived, but he was definitely a master.  I like his music now a lot more than i used to.

Yeah, I heard some stories in my CHL course about those "may issue" states.  Typically when that gets challenged in court the plantiffs win because the courts rule that the county sheriff doesn't have the power to circumvent a law-abiding citizen's 2nd amendment rights just on a whim.  Until it gets challenged, though, it's not going to change. 

I was very suprised to learn that Texas wasn't a CC state until around 1996.  The weird part is that even before then (at least as early as the 1980's when I visited Texas for the first time) you could actually OPEN cary pistols that were manufactured in the 1800's.  This was a loophole in the law to allow old west re-enactors to do their thing without breaking the law, but it applies to everybody.  It's still allowed today.