Minor follow up on the lapstick:Totally true- without the strap, it's odd to hold. I play mostly with the strap, though it goes okay without in a sort...
I actually just bought a travel electric- a Lapstick. Got to admit- I've have never paid the $700 or so they cost new, but I got it secondhand, in gre...
Sounds like a GREAT gig, Dogbite. I love your setlist so much that I really wish you were closer to my neighborhood. :-) And needed another guitar. :-...
+1 for using the guitar's volume knob. Simple, and it works. Just using your dynamics as you play may be even simpler still, but I probably don't quit...
South Korea again. :-) Itchy feet, but harder to move on with a little one in tow...Ande
I've suffered a number of hand injuries since I started playing...first realization- a LOT of guitarists I admire never had much use for the pinky. (J...
Two years, after 26 years- WELL DONE ROY!Ecig is a little inhaler device. Simulates a ciggie. YOu can "smoke" them with or without nicotine. It really...
Awww, Thanks guys!It hasn't been too bad so far. Money saved goes 50%/50%, into the amp fund and the diaper fund. (diaper=nappy, for you British types...
I don't have an Ipod (don't care for itunes as a machine interface) but I do have a rather similar piece of gear that lets me drop and drag stuff. It ...
I'd add- I don't think the I-pod, or any one thing, is the problem. But I'm sometimes sad about the changing role of music in the world. As it becomes...
And that's why I can't get a big bass amp. The wife and I are only just getting started on that...Nice set up. I could NEVEr practice with either of t...
Have had the same problem, seems like yesterday. (Wasn't quite, but close!)Another piece of advice I was given was to check your pick- how much is sti...
I figure it's sort of been part of a long process- music, which was once pretty public, gradually becomes a sale-able commodoty. I don't blame i-tunes...