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Excellent cover, Kev ... you've got a terrific singing voice!

Eva Atmatzidou    "Rondat"    (original composition)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i88xoBSGnRg

Another brilliant lady on guitar, Eva hails from Greece. She's adapted a classical-guitarist's approach to the steel string, and then added a few nuances of her own. I could listen to a lot of this ... beautiful.

Lovin' this thread!  Here's a few favorite expressions from my late-grandfather:

Meat that's hard to chew is "tougher than a boiled owl".

Good friends are "closer than bark to a tree".

A very homely person is "a two-bagger" (in case one blows off)

Another homely person "would make a freight train take a dirt road".

A clueless person "hasn't got both oars in the water".

Another clueless person "doesn't know if it's Tuesday or August".

On a good day, he'd say "If I was any better, I couldn't stand it."

Crooked carpentry was built by "a guy who used a banana for a straight edge".

Someone who complains a lot "he barked until he was hoarse".

All of these things add color to a conversation, and Grampie could tell a story / yarn better than anyone I've ever known.

Good question, CG, and obviously I can't speak for anyone else other than myself. I have a thumb-pick and a couple of finger-picks, but only use them once in awhile ... I find them clumsy. The reasons which might be given could be:

1) Tone - a pick will generate a brighter tone from a low E or A string, which the bare side of a thumb won't.

2) Nails - I haven't been able to keep longer nails on my right hand for picking, due to other hobbies I have (fly fishing, woodworking, etc.) Finger-picks substitute for that.

3) Angle - if the guitarist prefers to use a side-on approach with his thumb, a thumbnail wouldn't do much good.

4) Versatility - there may be times within a song that the guitarist would want to use just a pick, and not their fingers. Chet Atkins did this regularly. Having a plastic one attached would be very convenient.

These are only speculations based on personal experience

I agree with the expressions about sentimental value; there's no way to measure that. My three personal assets are my musical instruments, my library (+/- 3,000 books), and my fishing rods & gear. Unfortunately, neither of my boys are interested in any of it, so I expect they will be left to close friends that I shared these interests with.

My grandfather died in August 2000, and he didn't really have much except a heart as big as a clear blue sky. He left me the two things he knew that I would treasure most, being his two Merrick bamboo fly rods. One is an 8' - 5wt he used for trout, and the other is a 10' - 9wt he used for salmon. All I have to do is pick one up and the tears start ... he was a very special man.

If any of our stuff could hold value for our off-spring, that would be where I'd want it to go. Grampie taught me that.

Andrew White   "Tumbleweed Road"   (original composition)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89hNZv5cLs4

Another well-accomplished finger-stylist, who doesn't do as much percussive work as some others do, but is very good with his right hand fingers ... so fast, yet so relaxed.

My wife's from England, and if we happen to be watching "Coronation Street" together, I often need her to translate expressions. Here in Eastern Canada, we have a province called Newfoundland (locally pronounced Newf'nland) where there's a whole vocabulary of familiar & unfamiliar terms, but all pronounced in a way that is almost foreign to anyone outside of the province. Here's a really fun song that illustrates it nicely:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebUt-OFR0vE

Holy freakin' holy this is soooooo good! This young man sure knows how to use a Delay properly, and most can't. BGD ... you just gave birth to a new TAUK fan. Thanks!

Never heard of or saw anything like this before. Gotta hand it to Yamaha, their stated reasons for creating these few augmentations are spot on, and they appear to have hit it right. Very cool idea!

Yes    "Siberian Khatru"    Montreux, 2003

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2Kcs4Xmb8k

An early song from their 1972 album "Close to the Edge", it typifies their lyrically-abstract style of that era. I recall listening to this in high school, and a few of us would go over the lyrics trying to figure out what - or if - they meant anything. If we did decide on a meaning, it was probably just the "substances" talking. This version is very good, although drummer Alan White was never quite able to attain the skill level of the original Bill Bruford. The original vinyl album had more of Roger Dean's other-worldly artwork inside: