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this might sound silly since who i am going to say was a massive star.

I discovered johnny cash by mistake.

I knew a few of his songs but i saw him just as country and western music, which i was wrong to think. He is more of a country folk singer. Iput a cd on in my car not knowing what was on it.
The album was "LIFE"
As soon as I heard it I knew who it was but instead of turning off, I listened to the entire album and I loved it.
This made me look into other johnny cash songs that I never heard of and I am glad.
And for me being into punk rock, rock funk, rock, rock and even more rock and taditional scottishand irish it suprised me i liked this american music so much.
Also I am glad I got introduced to John Prine. fantastic songwriter!!
Ken

I have thought about buying one on ebay before but for the reasons you say I didnt bother.
I would much rather have a guitar in my hand and make sure it sounded ok and looked ok and there was no warp on the neck etc.

Even if someone gives you a garuantee thru any internet site, you will have the hassle of gettng t uplifted by courier etc and snding it back then waiting for your money back ( if you are lucky enough to get a garuantee like that)

I will stick to buying from the shops.

Ken

I am a big fan of Big Brother. I trynot to be and kee ppretending to myself and everyone else that I will not watch it year after year but always end up addicted to it.

So, I love this song,I should learn it and play it to my addicted to big bro wife of mine, yes, we are two sad individuals addicted to tv nonsense.

Ken

Roger,

I never thought you had to put a song into a songbook before correcting it.
At the bottom of every song there is an option to correct the song. I have done this a few times and never had the song in any of my songbooks.

Ken

well, I use MR sheen furniture polish about once every 6 months.
I dont believe in rubbing a guitar down and keeping it looking good, I like a worn out old guitar that still plays well.
If it gets  bit dirty thru puke, food, drink spillages, etc, thats when Mr sheen comes out.

As for the strings, I never clean mine unless I am really bored, and I mean really bored.
I buy new strings so I dont see the need to keep cleaning old ones.

But, if I was making money from playing then I might invest in a poper guitar cleaner, but for all those that are like me I would bother.

and another way I would pay for a proper cleaner s if I spent over £725.99 on a guitar.
So until the day that I do, it will be Mr Sheen, it really does smell nice!!!

Ken

it is 70 years in USA and 50 years in the UK, dont know about the rest of the planet.

Cliff richard is a fighting this as his songs are soon to be over 50 years. He wants it to be the same as america

There is a difference as well wit hthe songwriting and the performer.
I think it is after 50 years the person/band that sang the song stop getting royalties but the writer gets some  for a few years later.
Meaning if cliff wrote and performed a song he would get money for writing the song after a certain time but would stop getting money for singing it.
If he wrote  song and the who (lol, no chance) sang it, they would stop receiving money but cliff would still receive some.

( this is what I read from the daily record last week)

and this is not a song request

I have I.E 7 and they print on my computer last time I printe out a song. They were not on the same page though, they got printed on a second page.

Ken

Hi Worm,

There is also another thread relating to this on chordie, maybe even in this section. you might get a few tips there.
You say you are new to the guitar so that is making me think ( even though it is a cheap fender acoustic) that maybe the action is ok on the guitar and maybe you need to press harder on the strings? maybe not!!
Are your finger tips like the paw pads of a grizzly bear? if not then I would say you have to toughen yer fingers up to press harder on the strings.
But then, maybe your fingers are like the paws of a pussy cat that has been lying in bed for 6 weeks and your action still does need lowered.

If you really want it lowered, take it to a shop. It should not cost that much to gt it adjusted.

Ken

Bassboy,
dont worry about sounding like someone else, even the big stars do it.
Everyone has used bo didley's riff that george michael used in the song Faith, Lenny kravitz with his "it aint over til its over" sounds like someone else, The jams "in the city" bass line was copied by the sex pistols for "holiday in the sun" and the list goes on and on. The thing is the lyrics will not be the same. and if you think it is sounding too much like some other song then just change it by adding a chord at the end or in the middle and changing it slightly.

you can only do so much with rythums on a guitar, every strumming pattern has probably been done, every riff etc. all there is to do now is compose with what has already been done.

Ken

right, I have farted about with this a bt more and not even had breakfast yet,lol.

I found a song that was ok with the chord grids. all the lyrics moved to allow room for the grids and looked quite good.
here http://www.chordie.com/chord.pere/www.g … 0553.html#
is what I see a lot especially songs in my songbooks, although I have not went through them all.
That song was not in my songbook so it is happening outwith.
this happens on explorer but seems ok on firefox.

I did try the chord variation. IT is a great feature, I can see me using this a lot. I can find no fault with it on explorer or firefox.
one thing about it though. it took me a few minutes to realise ( even though it tell you to click on the cord variation you want) that you click on the variation you want and the other chords will show along with the variation you want.
I was looking at the variations at first without clicking on them and wated it to go back to the original so I hit BACK and that took me back to te menu. But that is nt really a problem.

hope this helps

Ken

I dont know if this should be allowed or not.
If everyone was to advertise links to great bands this site would be like a big pin board where there was too much stuff.
However there might be a place for a post here for people to add links if others are interested.

So, if I see too many new posts with just links I shall delete them ( sorry)

You can add a link after here on the same thread.

Ken

Hi Per,
I had a look at this chord grid instead of named cords. I agree with you, it is not something I wil be using, but maybe because I dont need it. If I dont know a chord and I cannot cheat then I would learn it.
Saying that, it might help some people, it looks like the grids gete in the way of he lyrics to me though.

Ken