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Hi, JJJ. Thank you for an inspiring story that gets folks to reminiscing about good days with good friends.
Brought to mind the day my friend, a tugboat captain, took me along to help him find an acoustic guitar so he could practice when aboard his boat. We drove across Mobile Bay to a pawn shop in the big City.
They had hundreds of guitars for us to try. We were looking for a guitar that looked bad but played well and easy for cheap. We tried almost a hundred guitars but were not sold on any particular one.
The pawn shop manager asked us what we were looking for and we told him - a guitar with a pretty sound and nice low action.
He said he had a guitar in the back he was saving for himself. He brought out a mid-70's Yamaha FG350W in a nice case. It looked and sounded wonderful and the action was fairly low.
Cap'n Dick was thrilled with it and bought it for $185 leaving him enough cash for a set-up. The set-up did the job and had that old Yammy playing so well you never wanted to put it down.
Cap'n Dick played that guitar on his tug two weeks on and took it home for his two weeks off. It almost never lost it's tune.
Dick died too young and left me that guitar. I'm looking at it across the room now. It's a spirit guitar. Everybody who plays it digs the sound, feels good and hates to put it down.
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lyrics:

http://www.lyrics007.com/John%20Anderso … yrics.html

Chords:

Intro: E  1st verse: [C#m, B, A] two times, A, E, B, G,D,B

Chorus: E,A, E,A, E, A, B 234. E, A, E, A, D, A, E (same as intro)

2nd verse chords are same as the first.
Chorus chords same as above.
Ride - C#m, B, A, E, G, D, B.
Chorus

You got it goin' on, Badeye. Appreciate her every day in some way.
A woman who feels loved will bloom like a flower. You will appreciate that too.
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The verses are regular in E - E, A, B7.
Bridge chords are C#m, A, F# and B.

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

Hi guys, please correct me if I have found the wrong song.

This I found on U-tube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWgmYC5MyYU

I am hearing the rhythm guitar play E, F#m, G#m and A.
The lead guitar player is imposing E and B notes over the chord changes by playing his Ist and 2nd strings open.
Whaddya think?
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Signs You Are Too Old To Gig:                                                      1. It becomes more important to find a place on stage for your fan than for your amp.

2. Your gig clothes make you look like George Burns out for a round of golf.

3. All your fans leave by 9:30 p.m.

4. All you want from groupies is a foot massage and back rub.

5. You love taking the elevator because you can sing along with most of your play list.

6. Instead of a fifth member, your band wants to spring for a roadie.

7. You don't know (or care) who any of the new bands are.

8. You need your glasses to see the amp settings.

9. You've thrown out your back jumping off the stage.

10. You feel like hell before the gig even starts.

11. The waitress is your daughter.

12. You stop the set because your ibuprofen fell behind the speakers.

13. Most of your crowd just sways in their seats.

14. You find your drink tokens from last month's gig in your guitar case.

15. You refuse to play without earplugs.

16. You ask the club owner if you can start at 8:30 instead of 9:30.

17. You check the TV schedule before booking a gig.

18. Your gig stool has a back.

19. You're related to at least one member in the band.

20. You don't let any one sit in.

21. You need a nap before the gig.

22. After the third set, you bug the club owner to let you quit early.

23. During the breaks, you now go to the van to lay down.

24. You prefer a music stand with a light.

25. You don't recover from a Saturday night gig until Tuesday afternoon.

26. You hope the host's speech lasts forever.....

27. You buy amps considering their weight and not their tone or cool factor.

28. Feeling guilty looking at hot women at the bar 'cause they're younger than your daughter.

29. You can remember seven different club names for the same location ...

30. You have a hazy memory of the days when you could work 10 gigs in 7 days and could physically do it

31. Your set list is dance able.

32. You think "homey" means cozy and warm

33. You have to look over your glasses to check your PA connections.

34. You're playing the same venue in three months and you ask the club owner if you can leave your amp!

35. Most of the band members are a lot younger than you.

36. Your son is waiting for the gig to end to drive you and your stuff home, then go back out and party...

37. Your date couldn't make it because she couldn't find a sitter for the grandkids...

38. In consideration of your age, the audience requests some British invasion.

39. On all out of town gigs you draw straws to see who the driver will be coming home.

40. You start listing your truss as a "business expense".

41. You forget to take your Flowmax so all sets that night are only 15 minutes long.

42. When you get a "Cease and Desist" letter from the Spandex co.

43. When you play 2 nights in a row, and the next day your body aches like you played in the Super Bowl!

44. Or, you play a Wednesday night gig and call into work sick on Thursday and Friday..

45. When the only "Stones" you care about are in your gallbladder or kidney.

46. You have to charge extra money if there are any steps to climb.

47. Your hearing has deteriorated so badly that you actually ask the guitar player to "turn himself up.

48. You call out the next song only to have someone remind you played it 10 minutes earlier.

49. Your drugs are keeping you alive rather than killing you.

50. You worry more about breaking a hip than being hip.

52. Musicians half your age are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame or have appeared on postage stamps.

53. The only white powder to be found amongst the band members is foot talc.

ROCK ON!

Intro is in G.
Verses 1&2 are the same. G, D, Am D, G,D
Bridge #1: Bm, F#, Bm, D.
Verse 3 same chords.
Ride: G, D, G,C,D.
Bridge chords same as first bridge.
4th verse same as others then he changes key up to Ab and plays all chords up a half step followed by repeating the last line three times.

I like to pour two envelopes of Lipton Beefy Onion Soup into five pounds of ground chuck to grill a tasty batch of burgers.
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I love the guitar because whatever you play on it cleanly and properly, the instrument sounds wonderful.
Baldguitardude's advice is key. What ever you play in public, play it correctly. Start out simple. Do tunes you know for sure.
A little nervousness is good because it keeps you alert and motivated.
I believe "Makers Mark" is a good quality bust head whiskey. If your nerves are that bad, a pop or two may help. A beer does it for me.
Three + beers and my skills begin to tail off.
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He's playing on the third string, fourth fret - along with the first and second strings droning open. Then third string, second fret, then fourth string, fourth fret, then fourth string, second fret, then fourth string open, then fifth string, fourth fret - along with fourth string, second fret with all above droning open.
That should give you the pattern. You can skull out the details from there.
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