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Nela, aspirin has been a wonder drug for me as well with my heart disease. After a quintuple bypass to prevent a heart attack, I now only take one aspirin a day to keep my blood thin, like you did. Good health to you.

I live in Foley, Alabama, 28 miles west of P-cola.
I play rhythm guitar, bass guitar, tuba bass and sing lead and back-up.
My only problem is that I am older than dirt.

"You know" is another terrible speach habit like the overuse of the word "like". Like, you know, man, it's very difficult to break such a habit once the pattern has been set.

You play bar chords when the guitar player next to you plays a down low - open strings "C", you play a covered chord to get a different inversion of the same C chord and to hide tuning differences between two guitars.
Some songs have you going for max open strings to get the most natural sustain out or your strings. Country rock rhythm is great with strings ringing through a rolling rhythm.
To play jazz and pop you may seek a softer sound with a covered chords that you can stifle quickly - ending with a "chop". Chop rhythm lets you pound out a more complex rhythm and squeeze out clear and deaden all strings quickly and together.

micky he mooch,
I am so old I played that song when it first came out.
I play it in E. I use the E-A string back and forth on two strings with index finger on A string - second fret to ring finger on the A string - forth fret back and forth to get a boogie rhythm going. Do the same for A chord and B chord and pound it out.
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I always prefer acoustic guitar and no P.A. system. As soon as you plug in and back off to a stage, so much intimacy is lost.
However, when the crowd numbers more than twelve and they are pounding lots-o-beer, they make more noise than the guitar/vocalist.
The great Jimmy Buffet carries a small guitar amp, mike and stand around in his seaplane with him in case a music session breaks out and the gang gets rowdy.

Was playing a bar near the Navy base when a chair whizzed by inches from my head as a row started. That didn't hurt.
This drunk backed into the stage and sat down hard striking my mike stand and bloodying my lower lip with the microphone. That hurt some.
A drunk guy pulled a gun on another drunk with his back to me. The second drunk swung a chair at the one with the gun. The gunman put out a hand to fend off the chair and then shot himself through that same hand. No pain for me. The slug hit the ceiling over my head.
I had a Mossrite twin neck guitar that had to weigh 40 pounds. The narrow strap dug into my left shoulder and gave me arthritis in my left index finger. A wider strap fixed the problem. Minimal pain for me.

"Oh Darlin" by Paul McCartney
"Angel Flying too Close to the Ground" by Willie Nelson
"Christmas with the Family" by Robert Earl Keen
And this one by Gove  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwj-0W_E … re=related

I have been a geezer long enough to relax with it. I was born in 1941. My King tuba is one year older than I am. It looks really beat up. So do I.
Warning signs of approaching geezerhood are:
1. You and your teeth don't sleep together.
2.You try to straighten out the wrinkles in your socks and discover you're not wearing any.
3. At the breakfast table you hear snap, crackle, pop and you're not eating cereal.
4. Your back goes out but you stay home.
5. It takes two tries to get up from the couch.
6. Your idea of a night out is sitting on the patio.
7. All you want for your birthday is not to be reminded of your age.
8. It takes longer to rest than it did to get tired.
9. Getting lucky means you found your car in the parking lot.
10. It takes twice as long to look half as good.
11. You sink your teeth into a steak and they stay there.
12. You give up all your bad habits and still don't feel good.
13. You confuse having a clear concience with a bad memory.
14. You finally start getting your head together and your body starts falling apart.
15 You wonder how you could be over the hill when you don't even remember being on top of it.

I bet you guys can think of some more.
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This is me sitting down in the dark with a tuba across my lap helping John Reno sing, "I Lobster but Never Flounder" , a tune off of his "Magic Chair" album.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxajh5ZzKPA

I played with a bagpiper once. Everything he played was in the key of A. He was great. I like playing in A.

They're playing it in "G". No need for a capo. There are a couple of oddball chords. Post back in here if you can't nail them.