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Come Inside... => Saloon Bar => Topic started by: Barman on March 19, 2010, 06:21:20 PM
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After my four hand guitar thread I got an irresistible urge to play the guitar! eeek:
I've ordered the thing from Amazon...
How hard could it be...? rubschin:
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What sort of guitar?
Bloody hard, prepare for bleeding fingers if my experience over the last 5 years is anything to go by.
I keep going back to mine but I get no better at it surrender:
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This one (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Yamaha-F310-Acoustic-Guitar-Pack/dp/B000KLJW3K/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top)
Shipped to Cyprus for a tenner! cloud9:
Give me a couple of weeks and I'll be playing this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_8d0DJpbBI
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happy001
I wish you luck.
The THW can play an electric guitar ........ took 3 years of lessons whistle:
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happy001
I wish you luck.
The THW can play an electric guitar ........ took 3 years of lessons whistle:
lessons eh...? rubschin:
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I used to able to play this redface: I could probably only manage the first few bars now noooo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEfFbuT3I6A&feature=related
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As a teen/early twenties my instrument was:
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However not the sort of thing one plays alone so I decided a few years back to try the guitar again ..... not a good move really.
Doubt if I have the energy or ability for Drums any more either.
I can still manage one of these:
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lol:
When I was learning the classical guitar as a teenager there was a lad a few houses down the road who was practising the drums...
Seared into my memory is the drum solo from "Wipeout" .... I'll have to find a link 8)
Got it....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5D07c0dJuQ
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Most excellent cloud9:
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This was one we used to play .... one of the few that they let me sing. I used to get the really hard on the throat ones whilst the regular vocalist took all the smoochy stuff. Shared drumming duties too .... served drinks when not on stage.
Saturday nights at the Camp (RAF) Dance .......... Most excellent bird puller being one of the band eyes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEq62iQo0eU
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I used to able to play this redface: I could probably only manage the first few bars now noooo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEfFbuT3I6A&feature=related
Awesome!
I'll do that one after I've mastered Cavatina.... cloud9:
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How long will this phase last noooo:
What mid life crisis whistle:
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How long will this phase last noooo:
What mid life crisis whistle:
It lasted 'til I remembered about it this morning... redface:
Unfortunately, Amazon have already shipped it.... Banghead
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Some of us reach our teenage years later than others whistle:
I look forward to the live streaming of your first concert to the VP lounge cloud9:
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My guitar (except mine is left-handed, like)
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Bought as I always wanted one and it's a bit of an investment (it's doubled in value after 8 years) - still can't play it very well though.
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My guitar (except mine is left-handed, like)
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Bought as I always wanted one and it's a bit of an investment (it's doubled in value after 8 years) - still can't play it very well though.
We could start a band like...? rubschin:
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Ooh, can I join?
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Ooh, can I join?
We don't need a triangle player whistle:
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Ooh, can I join?
Oh yes,naturally.
You could play, mmmmmm, let's think now ey...... rubschin:
Of course, ::) the village idiot! happy088
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Ooh, can I join?
We are going to be the Biking Buskers... whistle:
Do you have a motorbike...?
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I look forward to the live streaming of your first concert to the VP lounge cloud9:
While my guitar gently weeps... whistle:
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I look forward to the live streaming of your first concert to the VP lounge cloud9:
While my guitar gently weeps... whistle:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7qpfGVUd8c
cloud9:
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and the VP dance troupe gyrate to the rhythm scared2:
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and the VP dance troupe gyrate to the rhythm scared2:
get down! lol:
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and the VP dance troupe gyrate to the rhythm scared2:
get down! lol:
Do you need some more dimensions and can we have silver pom poms to shake and wave about? whistle:
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and the VP dance troupe gyrate to the rhythm scared2:
get down! lol:
Do you need some more dimensions and can we have silver pom poms to shake and wave about? whistle:
Not pom poms.... noooo:
Tambourines perhaps... rubschin:
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I can do that! ;D
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I can do that! ;D
You're in the band! ;)
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Have I to do the triangle as well, seeing as how Nick can't come, through lack of trousers? whistle:
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Have I to do the triangle as well, seeing as how Nick can't come, through lack of trousers? whistle:
I think we can manage without the triangle....
Concentrate on your tambourine solo.... ;)
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tunble:
Well? Has it arrived yet? Your... (cough)... axe?
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evil:
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No... evil:
Amazon say it left Staufenberg on Monday morning... since then, no word... noooo:
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LL intercepted the shupment... whistle:
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For beginners...Bert Weedon, play in a day whistle:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5RA3iUQMkU
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My theme tune cloud9:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z_lAjt-gMw
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My theme tune cloud9:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlYfLwIknXM
whistle:
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Ahhhh...those were the days. cloud9:
1/-9d a pint...1/-10d for 10 No6...tipped
The Sweeney, The Professionals, Z Cars, Fireball XL5...
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Oooh I loved cloud9:The Professionals cloud9: cloud9: cloud9:
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Oooh I loved cloud9: Martin Shaw. Pity he was a poofter sad24:
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Only cos he never met me like whistle:
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Only cos he never met me like whistle:
You think you would have put him straight?
Surely you were at primary school when the Professionals was on?
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She was prolly a Gary Glitter fan whistle:
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I was a Gary Glitter fan... redface:
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point:
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Only cos he never met me like whistle:
You think you would have put him straight?
Surely you were at primary school when the Professionals was on?
Biggest crush phase was at age 11 I admit ......those curly locks, that battered brown jacket and ever so tight jeans. the way he threw himself over the Capri bonnet cloud9: cloud9: cloud9:
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Enough of this pre-pubescent damp gusset talk nonono:
You'll be in no condition to work for the rest of the day.
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It's good to reflect cloud9: cloud9: cloud9:
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Never look back ~ it leads to disappointment. noooo:
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It also leads to walking into lamp posts
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I have done that redface: I have a scar noooo:
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I have done that redface: I have a scar noooo:
point:
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1978. Got distracted by some gerls eyes:. Spent the evening in A&E. Scar still there noooo:
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1978. Got distracted by some gerls eyes:. Spent the evening in A&E. Scar still there noooo:
Where is it, on yer knob? point:
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Left eyebrow redface:
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Left eyebrow redface:
Of course....
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Nice bloke Mr Shaw and definitely not gay after three wives and a long term girlfriend.
He gave me a ride in his aeroplane once so I am biased.
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He is an actor.
Actors = Poofs
No question
Not that we are prejudiced of course
Just set in our opinions of men who ponce about in tights for a living.
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Nice bloke Mr Shaw and definitely not gay after three wives and a long term girlfriend.
He gave me a ride in his aeroplane once so I am biased.
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Took you in the Sopwith eh? eyes:
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Miss D would have liked that
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He can make me fly any time cloud9:
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He can make me fly any time cloud9:
I vaguely remember ladies displaying the kind of 'enthusiasm' you are displaying today.
'Clubbing' tonight may be a bad idea noooo:
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Oooh no DS ...I am just in the mood eyes:
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Oooh no DS ...I am just in the mood eyes:
eeek: eeek: eeek: eeek: eeek:
scared:
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20 wimmin in a gang scared2:
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Anyhooo.... my guitar like... cussing:
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Wot? rubschin:
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Wot? rubschin:
This thread... about my guitar like... ::)
Still 'in transit'... evil:
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Wot? rubschin:
This thread... about my guitar like... ::)
Still 'in transit'... evil:
Digestive?
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Q - How do you make a guitarist's eyes light up?
A - Shine a flashlight in his ear.
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evil:
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Wot? rubschin:
This thread... about my guitar like... ::)
Still 'in transit'... evil:
Id Baldymort's new guitar going to be the VP version of the Emperor's new clothes? whistle:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHhhMt4H-no (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHhhMt4H-no)
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How do you make a guitar player play slowly and quietly ? Put sheet music in front of him.
How many guitar players does it take to change a lightbulb ? 5. One to do it and 4 to say how much better Steve Vai would do it.
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evil:
I'll lock this bloody thread I will! cussing:
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Has anyone pointed out to LL just how dangerous you could be with a guitar if you decide to experiment? eeek:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boC9e2FLqtI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boC9e2FLqtI)
scared:
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Forget experimenting just playing will be bad enough whistle:
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evil:
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Forget experimenting just playing will be bad enough whistle:
lol:
Didn't have you pegged as a masochist Miss D, after all you were the one asking about BM's first VP racket concert whistle:
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Will you get finger picking lessons from David Crosby ?
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