Best and worst present

Seems apt, collected enuff votes.

 

Anyway I'm waiting for solo vid from HiaG, although I expect he will be busy tonight entertaining the over 70's night down at the Dorset social club.

 

I may have missed it, but was your first guitar cheap and cheerful or did you go straight for the top of the range model?

 

I reckon he can play quite well, but maybe not aswell as he thinks he can, but can certainly play some.

 

I expect he relied on a shovel

 

Supermodel version.

 

I've never said he can't play. But without a shadow of a doubt the singer needs bining.

As for not being as good as he thinks, I would like to see two things. A solo vid on his new toy, with camera focused on his skill, not the blue rinse brigade or the rest of the band. Secondly I'd like to see him on acoustic unplugged, where he can't hide behind electric.

 

Shouldn't you be setting up for the busiest time of the year?

 

@In ya pop Partridge

 

We made a decision to cut New Year Eve gigs.

Too much hassle for the money.

I'd rather spend the time with my family.

 

You haven't seen what I can do. Not properly.

 

He's just putting the doilies out on the tables now.

 

So oblige brb with a video then. Myself i couldn't tell a good guitarist from a **** one.

 

The last NYE gig I played was 2016 and we charged £2k for that. £15 per ticket 150 capacity.
The pub we played covered our fee on tickets and then made a truck load in bar sales.

 

My first guitar was a cheapish 12 string that I converted to 6 string, when I was about 12 years old. I used that to learn basic chords.

I bought my first electric when I was about 14. It was a secondhand Hondo Pro II SG copy, made in Japan, and it would have cost me less than £100. From memory, it played okay, and enabled me to start learning lead guitar.

My next guitar was a Fernandes Superstrat, that I bought in my mid 20s, when I was at law school. Again, secondhand, this time for around £300. It was a great guitar, and enabled me to really advance with my playing.

When I started work, I bought my first Gibson Les Paul and my first USA Start, both in the same year.

It's been an addiction ever since.

 

Mine was 2014.

Five of us shared £1500.

But we started setting up around 7pm, and I didn't get away until gone 2pm.

The drunkenness and general ****wittery really got to me, and I didn't enjoy the gig.

I play for the love of playing, not for the money, so if I don't enjoy it, there's no point in it, for me.

 

Don't mean to sound funny mate, but a 12 string fret board would be much wider than a 6 string, and sounds like it would be an awful instrument to learn to make chord shapes on as a beginner guitar.

 

So this backs up my opinion that it’s not the equipment that’s important, it’s the determination to play proficiently?

 

Fair enuff, i guess.