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My musical life seems to be a series of plateaus. I wind up in a rut and then something wonderful happens and it's off to the races for a good while.

You're no wannabe, Pete. You can play.
I am lucky some people gave me a chance when I was just getting started. Now I'm too darn old to shred.

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I believe you are referring to Tal Wickenfeld.
Smokin' good looks and shreds on bass.

http://www.rocknrollview.com/blog/2009/ … o-gallery/

A selection of her music:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_q … l290l4l4l0

A Drinking Game:
You say this one line at a time, adding a line each go round and everybody at your table has to repeat it perfectly with no mispronunciations. Anybody messes up has to chug their drink.

One hen
Two ducks
Three cackling geese
Four olympic oysters
Five corpulent porpoises
Six pairs of Dinah Frago's favorite tweezers
Seven hundred Macedonian knights in full battle array
Eight parapatetic, parapalegic old ladies in wheel chairs
Nine ancient Egyptian mummies brought back from the secret sacred crypts of ancient egypt.
Ten titillating Tarantula spiders tip toeing down Tenth Avenue on a tuesday afternoon

If you get through all this sober, you be super human!

I spent a year at a Benedictine Monastery at age 15-16.
They played music over a sound system constantly- 33 records.
Chet Adkins tunes are the only albums I enjoyed.

The larger music stores usually employ a guy to fix amps,speakers etc...and advise you with gear problems. Usually there is one pickup day per week at the store if he works at home or a day when he is there to advise us and make our problems go away.
Call stores and see what day to catch him.

P.S. Sounds like your speakers have bitten the dust. Tell the man what you are using for a driver and he can recommend speakers that match what you have.

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Never heard of "The Snarling Dogs Brain Picks" in all my life.
With a name like that they gotta be good.
Research begins immediamente!

The whole song is in D. The bass plays individual notes D,C,Ab and A.

I had a 12 string Yamaha dreadnought guitar with the nut broken where the first string groove was. My buddy (with busted up hands) needed an easy playing acoustic guitar so I put six nylon strings on the old Yamaha
and gave it to him.
I was surprised how nice the Yamaha sounded with nylon strings and how easily it played.
He traded it for a nice Ibanez we both liked better.

After forty plus years playing mostly rock, I like nylon picks because the cross hatch on the top gives a bit more grip - especially with fingers that may be moist after hoisting a cold beer. Nylon picks wear down evenly and rarely crack and break on the end like plastic ones do.
Like you, Sonnya, I play a dreadnought with a cedar top that can be quite loud. A slim nylon pick gives me better control over volume dynamics - so I can play loud and soft and not have to sing so loudly.
A thicker nylon pick will yield some natural distortion from my old Yamaha if I pound hard on it as I often do.

You are so welcome, Otto_2000.
What else are you working on?