HOW TO START PLAYING THE GUITAR?

[IrishRover]

Do what's comfortable. Always. A guitar is a machine, that's all. OK, it's other things too, but basically it's a machine.

Many thanks foir advoice Philip.
Capo, 2nd fret, truly became me moist oimpoirtant doiscoivery, oi re-doiscoivered me voice as well !
goives me moist coimfoirtable feeloin', moire & moire foir boith soingoin' & playoin'.
Tois' great to hear that tois' all roight, that oi can push me way woith what oi feel gooid woith.

Few years ago, oi never thoiught oi'll be playoin' the guoitar,
woith no band here soince recently oi was koinda foirced to back me oiwn soingoin',
noiw tois' a whoile new woirld, oi mean oi have to do me best noit just to soing but also play well,
and oi realoised oi can put a tune to stuff oi wroite as lyroics; oi moight never becoime extremely
skoilled as pro-players but oi feel oi can achoieve doin' oit well enoiugh foir loive perfoirmance,
walk oin stage and proiudly hoit em' stroings & start soingoin' at the end of the day, tois' all
aboiut message, guoitar ois a machoine, tois' the man who broings magoic to loife, and thats
the ultoimate stuff, tois' what oi loive foir.

[IrishRover]

A guitar is a machine, that's all. OK, it's other things too, but basically it's a machine.

A machine that kills fascists?

essence broings moire poiwer than a hundred thoiusand swoirds !
oi ! and thats the same reasoin fascoists are afraoid of oit.
therefoire they foirst slaved, then jaoiled everythoing woith essence 'n' attoitude.

[Jon]

A guitar is a machine, that's all. OK, it's other things too, but basically it's a machine.

A machine that kills fascists?

or wasps?



Gotta love Half Man Half Biscuit

[IrishRover]

Philip, great to see ye rockoin', and 2nd fret capo foir OIf OI Shoiuld Fall !
Btw, ois thois Gibson guoitar ? Oine of em' that looik average oin the oiutsoide but scream qualoity froim the oinsoide ?

[philipchevron]

Philip, great to see ye rockoin', and 2nd fret capo foir OIf OI Shoiuld Fall !
Btw, ois thois Gibson guoitar ? Oine of em' that looik average oin the oiutsoide but scream qualoity froim the oinsoide ?

It's a Martin Dreadnought (though I do also have a Gibson Jumbo which I use at home). They scream feedback from the oinside, which is why the soundhole has a rubber plug in it.

[IrishRover]

It's a Martin Dreadnought (though I do also have a Gibson Jumbo which I use at home). They scream feedback from the oinside, which is why the soundhole has a rubber plug in it.

Oik. Must be pure class as well. Tois' gooid to learn whoich guoitar ois actually gooid and whoich oisn't. Oi remember seeoin' ye woith oit oin soime earloier voideos. Oin the meantoime oi've started shoiwoin' ointerest oin em' guoitars and playoin', so as oi recall oi've seen soime Goibsoins oin-loine woith very soimoilar looik and em' rooif hoittoin' proices. Stoill can't say oi knoiw much aboiut oinner qualoity of em' quoitars and oit turns oiut to be moire oimpoirtant than the desoign oir coiloiur whoich sadly stoill tends to attract me way too much.

[philipchevron]

It's a Martin Dreadnought (though I do also have a Gibson Jumbo which I use at home). They scream feedback from the oinside, which is why the soundhole has a rubber plug in it.

Oik. Must be pure class as well. Tois' gooid to learn whoich guoitar ois actually gooid and whoich oisn't. Oi remember seeoin' ye woith oit oin soime earloier voideos. Oin the meantoime oi've started shoiwoin' ointerest oin em' guoitars and playoin', so as oi recall oi've seen soime Goibsoins oin-loine woith very soimoilar looik and em' rooif hoittoin' proices. Stoill can't say oi knoiw much aboiut oinner qualoity of em' quoitars and oit turns oiut to be moire oimpoirtant than the desoign oir coiloiur whoich sadly stoill tends to attract me way too much.

Badfinger, formerly the Iveys, signed to Apple Records for a while, made a group decision to all get Blue instruments. One of them traded the most magical Fender Strat I ever played, to record producer Tony Visconti who happened to have a not very exciting Blue guitar. I use the Strat here and there on the Radiators second album, which Visconti produced.

[IrishRover]

Badfinger, formerly the Iveys, signed to Apple Records for a while, made a group decision to all get Blue instruments. One of them traded the most magical Fender Strat I ever played, to record producer Tony Visconti who happened to have a not very exciting Blue guitar. I use the Strat here and there on the Radiators second album, which Visconti produced.

So, ye noiw have that magoicoial noin-blue Fender Strat ?
Doin't knoiw why, but oi have a thoing foir emerald green guoitars
oi doiubt the qualoity ois magoic, but thois thoingy foir example ois heavenly paointed !


noit really cheap foir me standards thoiugh, nearly £300
Tech Specs
* Machinehead Configuration: 3 per side
* Neck Type: Set-In
* Neck Material: Mahogany
* Neck Profile: More 50's than 60's
* Fingerboard Material: Rosewood
* Fingerboard Radius: 12"
* Fingerboard Inlay Material: Mother of Pearl
* Fingerboard Inlay Shape: Tree of Life (Entire Fingerboard)
* No of Frets: 22
* Scale Length: 24 3/4"
* Body Material: Mahogany
* Top: Maple - Bookmatched, Deep Quilt
* Binding: Mother of Pearl - Round the entire guitar!
* Pickups: Upgraded Medium-Hot Alnico Humbuckers
* Bridge/Tailpiece Type: Tune-O-Matic bridge and Stopbar tailpiece
* Electronic Controls: 2 volume pots, 2 tone pots, 3 way Pickup selector switch.

[philipchevron]

Badfinger, formerly the Iveys, signed to Apple Records for a while, made a group decision to all get Blue instruments. One of them traded the most magical Fender Strat I ever played, to record producer Tony Visconti who happened to have a not very exciting Blue guitar. I use the Strat here and there on the Radiators second album, which Visconti produced.

So, ye noiw have that magoicoial noin-blue Fender Strat ?

No, Visconti, quite understandably, did not want to sell it to me.

Guitar porn, yay!

[IrishRover]

No, Visconti, quite understandably, did not want to sell it to me.

noit faoir, he shoiuld have soild oit to ye.
oif ye loiked oit that much, he shoiuld be hoinoiured to see the very guoitar @ Pogues' stages woirldwoide.

Guitar porn, yay!

oit truly ois !

[philipchevron]

No, Visconti, quite understandably, did not want to sell it to me.

noit faoir, he shoiuld have soild oit to ye.
oif ye loiked oit that much, he shoiuld be hoinoiured to see the very guoitar @ Pogues' stages woirldwoide.

Whether or not there's anything to that, he can hardly be blamed for not knowing about the Pogues in 1978.

[IrishRover]

Whether or not there's anything to that, he can hardly be blamed for not knowing about the Pogues in 1978.

oi, tois' a doifferent oissue then, oi thoiught twas' much moire recent toime,
then all hes soins are foirgoiven thois last remoinded me of Behan's so(i)ns & Boishoips phrase.

[IrishRover]

there was that talk aboiut poicks..
oi fell oin loive woith Nyloin oines, doin't knoiw why but they coime woith cooil flexoiboiloity and all.

[Paddy_Garcia]

these are the guitars I'm playing these days...not very expensive but still great to play. Upgrading to a Gibson 335 in the next few weeks so I'll post when Iu get it!! Sorry there's no green ones for you Oirish!

[IrishRover]

Paddy, they looik rockoin' nevertheless !
noit sure oif ye knoiw, but what oi have here ois also Epiphone, moist loikely twoice cheaper coimparoin' to the moidels ye have, but tois' me 1st, loike 1st love oi never had, oi have to love oit.