SKIPPYGIRL-i see your splurging for the acoustic. so whats up. so how are u going about this. taking lessons? or going to do the tab thiing. i started that way too, good for learning that one song. something tells me you won't stop there though. but u will be limited with just an acoustic.

anyone else signed up on myspace? Tikimon talked me into it, so what about the rest of yaz?

Well done Alan. Nicely played.

have a wee listen to this man...the very great John Curran. I have had the pleasure of knowing several truly astounding guitarists (Slanshroom who we have all come to know here) and this dude from my hometown of Dundee, Scotland - John Curran. Actually he is more a friend of my best friend Graeme.

This is him playing a Led Zep tune John Curran plays Led Zep

I remember that all the decent guitar players would come to see John and try and copy him and he'd turn his back on them for the difficult stuff. A bit arogant but amazing nonetheless.

Hope you enjoy this

What Santa does in his spare time ;- )

That rocks! lol!

Satriella--I have been enjoying your posts--The geography of women is so funny!

Maritime--Bjork's "Declare Independence" is like nothing else. Ropes in a huge machine to bind workers together--is that what it's like in today's places of employment? Hope you get time off very soon!

Tracie--That handsome young man from Eire fascinates me no end--what a gifted musician. What a charming young man--a chick magnet for sure! Siggghhh!!!! My heart is melting!!

Al McKenna--What more can I say? You have said it all with your pliable guitar that yields to your every touch....I am in heaven and I hear angels singing!!!

Great Michelle but Santa should know better than to go out and party like a rock star and leave Mrs Claus at home

Michelle--I always did wonder what Santa does to pass the time when he is at leisure. Thanks for answering my inner question. btw, how are Sully and his buddy doing? What does Sully want for Christmas? Catnip? Toys that tickle his paws? a fishingline toy? I love cats!

SkippyGirl--This week I get my Fender Acoustic! I can't wait to hold it and learn to play. I want a sheepskin cover for it like Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top has for his electric guitars. Guitars deserve to be kept warm and cuddly during the cold months of winter. I may even take mine to bed with me--a kind of teddy bear!! Oooo.....I'm not sure my Steve would allow that--he may get terribly jealous! LMAO!!!

FabLawyer---Wooooo! Wooooo! LMAO!! Mrs. Claus is one horny old lady!! What woman could resist such a hunk!! That makes me feel HOT!! LMAO!!

SUPERDAVE: Got room in the family for another Satchurator? Mine finally turned up today.

I'm the proud owner of #010497. Could I trouble you again for some of your fav settings?

Oh Al - that's beautiful (*sniff*) - you're going to break a few hearts you are......what was your inspiration for that song? Are you smitten at the moment or ...?

What a gift you have you lucky bugger - look at what you can give to other people, the love of your life, your family.

Lornezo001 - I can't splash out on the Fender unless it is very second-hand. I'll see what bobs up after Xmas. Actually a few guitar players have recommended:

"any decent guitar with a Floyd Rose system" "an Ibanez S320" "an Ibanez RG170" "an Epiphone" "a Dean"

so I am still really in the dark.

GG2 - you take care of that baby and I want to know how you go every step of the way!

Cheesey101 - I think I've asked a few times and you've missed my posts - do YOU play guitar?

Hi all,

Maritime:Now THAT is my kind of movie! Its already on my "to go see n buy" list

Of all the research i have done being a part time archeologist that i found to make any kind of Nutty sense of it all, was reading about the Iraq Sumerian texts Zecharia Sitchin could well be another nutcase, but i got t hand it t the man spending a lifetime studying the first civilisation of man, wouldnt sign up for his theorys tho, that would be like making another religion?¿

Fortunately i,ve been able t live long enough t really live my life t its full without the bible/koran etc bashin nightmare inflicted on so many

Do the Stu - You're right, I'm not looking to get rid of my ipod touch. It's a great mp3 player. But it's also something that you feel you have to be very careful handling. The mp3 I use when I run is an ipod shuffle. After a year and a half I have finally decided to perhaps break away from that. It's great for what it is. But you have no control of playlists or anything else. You just push play and off it goes. I am looking for something with a lot of options that I can use as a kick around mp3, running and so on. I will definitely check out the sans disc. I think I have heard some good things about them in the past. I like the more bang for the buck. More gigabyte per dollar is good. Looking for decent features. Maybe an FM tuner.

Skippygirl - Be happy to go through it. First thing you do is go to your ituens and check your playlists. One of the playlists is called purchased. Not purchased on "name" ipod. Just the one that says purchased. If you have never deleted any of these since you have had itunes, then all of your purchased songs should be there. If you have cleared that playlist out, then you should recreate a playlist that you want to burn from itunes. At the bottome right of your playlist there is a button that says burn. Click that button. It will prompt you to pick an audio cd or an mp3 cd. You should choose audio cd. This will uncompress the music and give you almost original cd quality music. Once you insert your blank disc and start recording, itunes will open your disc tray at the end of each disc. It will tell you that you will need multiple discs. click the button that says "audio cds" and you're off and running. If you come to a point where you need to stop and do something else, click the x at the top left and it will stop the burning process. Keep in mind if you stop before all your songs are burned, you will want to delete the songs that you got copied onto disc. Delete them out of the playlist. That way when you start burning again, it doesn't start all over. After you have all your cds, go to your windows media player. Click the "rip" tab at the top and insert your disc. It will give you an option of quality. I suggest doing it at the highest quality mp3. It's better than ituens best (currently 256kbps). Once these discs have been ripped to your windows media player, you can now go iinto your music folder on your computer and drag and drop your purchased itunes songs into any media player you want. Keep in mind, this is a very lengthy process!! Also, once you have ripped your songs in the windows media player, it puts your songs into an "unknown" music folder. It also will not have any names or artists to your songs. So before you rip your songs to windows media, you will probably want to put that information on your songs after they are in your new library.