The Awesomeness

[RandomHero]

Ok, to make a fairly long story short, (or rather leave out the hero-worship exaggerations,) my girlfriend's dad, as scary as he is, is a monster of a guitar player. In his day he's won local awards and has his name on some plaques in some performance halls around my city of 300,000. To this day he flies over the strings like no other; his office is composed of his video equipment, his computer, and his Gibson SG plugged into a rackful of processors before a power amp and two cabs.

One night my girlfriend invited me over, but said she'd be painting. I don't mind watching her paint, (she's going to college for art,) but I do get bored easily, so I brought along my 7-string to practice some fingerstyle. He saw it and asked about it, I gave it to him and he said he'd never seen a 7-string guitar before, only that he'd heard about them.

I was waiting for him to demean modern rockers and the such, but he just strapped the damn thing on and started playing. And he was -good-. For having never picked up a 7-string in his life, I couldn't believe it, it was like he didn't need to make the transition to the wider neck or extra string at all. He got lost on the thing -once,- but other than that it was a massacre. And what's more, as traditional of a guy as I thought he was, he -loved- the thing! (He's in his early fifties, people!)

I was thoroughly blown away by how much he enjoyed playing a 7-string, and listening to him jam for about an hour. Plus, I got in some rare, valuable bond-with-the-possible-future-father-in-law time. =D

I just felt the need to share this awesomeness.

[dunkelfalke]

hehe
now my awesomeness:

i have seen today "this is spinal tap" for the first time
it was awesome ;D

[wolf]

RandomHero


That guy was in his early fifties?
Truth be told I'm 54. Just think, the folks here have been listening to the advice of a Rock and Roll geezer. ;D

This whole danged electricable guitar thing is just a passing phase. In my day, the only way to make music was to get a stick and hit a tree with it. And that's the way it was and we liked it !!!

[UnklMickey]

dunkelfalke said:

hehe
now my awesomeness:

i have seen today "this is spinal tap" for the first time
it was awesome ;D

yeah i've heard it was pretty awesome, i'll make it a point to see it someday .:ROFL:.

seriously though, the dvd is packed with all kinds of "bonus" footage that wasn't on the videotape. i must have watched this thing a dozen times. i still find something new that i missed the previous times that will crack me up. kinda like watchin back to the future. some stuff is really obvious other stuff is sorta suBtle.



RandomHero,

so the young pup realizes that, not only can the old dog learn new tricks, but also, that a few of the old tricks aint too shabby, eh?

nice to hear, in general youth tends to dismiss the talent and abilities of the older generations. it usually isn't until they age a bit themselves that the realize that we may have lost a step, but we're still quite capable.

look at Keith Richards (no wait, do i really want to use that example?) okay then how 'bout Sir Paul, Geddy Lee, Eric Clapton, Pete Townhend, Derek St.Holmes etc, etc, etc. they all fit into the 50+ "geezer" bracket. they all have a few tricks up their sleeves that would amaze the young pups. and i'd venture to say that they're smart enough to know that they can still learn a few things from the pups.

As long as you're still learnin', ya aint dead yet!



U.M.

[bam]

.. I must admit, it's truer than true.

Just've got a Clapton Crossroads Live Dallas 2004 DVD, and ..

wow.

seems that those old tricks never dies.

[GuyaGuy]

wolf said:

RandomHero



This whole danged electricable guitar thing is just a passing phase. In my day, the only way to make music was to get a stick and hit a tree with it. And that's the way it was and we liked it !!!

;D