Just dropped by to say hello.

[england kev]

Hi all, wrong side of 40, not as much hair as I used to have, and overweight. what more can i say? I have loved the guitar from the first time i saw the Beatles on TV, and although i have owned a few over the years (i was always more of a collector than a player) I left it late (late 30's) before i really tried to play, and now wish i had found that enthusiasm earlier. I own a few old guitars including an old 1910 Regal, a 1920 washburn, a Wurlitzer, a Stella, a May Bell, and have just bought a prototype Liberty parlor size accoustic with copper top, I can't wait for it to arrive, I also have an arch top (stewart wondertone) a cheap puchase off of e-bay. I am trying to play finger style blues, but I seem to have bannana's where my fingers should be (and I think they have been drinking) well that's about it.
Thanks for taking the time, Kevin.

"keep your mouth shut and they will think you a fool, open it and you remove all doubt"

[houndog]

Hello ,
from your description (forty+..."power"bulge above belt line...folical solar sex panel )you are pretty well in the frame here.

As to playing guitar etc we have all types lurking around here all struggling with our own way with the beast...consesus is that your own way is the best...just keep at it.Myself ..I'm struggling with the vox side.

adios,
Lovat.

[badfinger]

[updated:LAST EDITED ON Aug-15-02 AT 06:36 AM (CST)]Surely, nobody lives in Reading???

Never mind - hi!

Any good jams (where the knobs ain't all hard right!) between there and Woking? (Yep - someone does live in Woking - just!)


bf

ps: what's hair?

[sandy]

[updated:LAST EDITED ON Aug-15-02 AT 07:13 AM (CST)]Still got the hair, but otherwise I recognise the description only too well. Welcome.

[ricochet]

"Drunk Banana Kevin" isn't too bad for a blues name.

:7

[badfinger]

Kevin???!!! KEVIN!!! It's almost as bad as Keith! (But not as bad as Trevor! or Robin!)






bf

[diamond]

Hi from rural Worcestershire....at our age and musical preferences hair becomes an optional extra!!

Big D.


"Oh no...not the bottleneck stuff again!!!" My Wife.

[bosco]

>I seem to have bananas where my fingers should be (and I think they have all been drinking.)<

Hey Kev, welcome to BRB! I like that analogy. Compares well to one I heard when American rocker Ted Nugent was interviewed;

Interviewer: "I tried playing guitar once but I was all thumbs."

Ted Nugent: "Yeah, I was like that when I started out, but in my case it was all middle fingers!"

went down to the crossroads...

[england kev]

Thanks guys.
Kev.

[badfinger]

>I seem to have bananas where my fingers should be (and I think they have all been drinking.)<

A nice one I heard was somebody describing what it was like trying to play with fingerpicks for the first time:

"Like a dog on ice!"




bf

[ricochet]

>Kevin???!!! KEVIN!!! It's almost as bad as Keith! (But
>not as bad as Trevor! or Robin!)

Well, he IS English!

[inbred]

Hello back, England Kev. Slide good.

[badfinger]

Sean Cu,

"...struggling with the vox side"

Reference was made to this somewhere else. You gotta tell me about it, cos it's something I reckon I can't do worth a damn!

(The guy who runs a local club said recently that I have "a great blues voice", but I reckon he just wants me to come back 'cos it's a real 'folkie' place and ANYTHING different is an improvement... altho, you never know... well a bit of self-ego-stroking is ok, innit?).


bf

[bones]

Hey Kev,

My Grandfather came from Blackburn, England (if you happen to know where that is?), so tell the country I said, " ello, ello, mate."

Peace,
Bones

[sandy]

>My Grandfather came from Blackburn, England

I shall be driving right past Blackburn on Friday on the way to the Great British Blues Festival at nearby Colne. I'll give it a wave for you.