Glitzy - thanks mate! I have been lucky enough to be on holiday for a few days staying near Mr Skippy's sister so I have had 3 lessons with my brother-in-law and I can't tell you how much it makes a difference to actually sit with someone who can play...I have to say my BIL is amazing as a player and a very patient teacher (I think he must be a bit like Joe, a natural teacher).
Can you believe he plays electric, (but moved on from that LOL), country, blues, classical, flamenco, Brazilian and Argentinian and lord knows what else....he is amazing. He's played with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, as well as the bass guitarist from John Butler Trio (who just got fired apparently) and heaps of other musicians. He is recording some material in January that is classical piano stuff arranged for guitar.
Anyhoo, he's sitting there with his hugely expensive Condes Hermanos guitar and he got me to play a series of chords with a certain strumming pattern and then he just starts playing the "lead" part and it turned out to be Norwegian Wood, so all of a sudden I'm actually playing a proper song and the smile on my face is a mile wide. Such a great feeling. Then we went on to a couple more Beatles songs and I'm playing barre chords and picking out bass notes and all sorts of things.
It's so good to sit with someone and talk guitar and ask all sorts of idiotic questions and not feel like a dick. He's also really patient when I struggle to work out the strumming or a chord he just breaks it down and plays it r-e-a-l-l-y s-l-o-w until I get it, without making me feel stupid.
So the new year resolution is to get lessons cos clearly the learn-from-the-book-and-internet is real slow LOL!
My other resolution is to get fitter.
I hope you have a wonderful NYE, I see you kicked up your heels and had a screwdriver at Xmas huh? Any more races coming up?
Scuby - sounds like the birthday went off well, congrats on the pedal setup, when do we get some video ??
Al - the blue moon is NYE, I'll be thinking of you all night :0)
Anybody lucky enough to be going to the Davy Knowles show in Philly on new year's eve? I'm still waiting on my DVD to arrive :(.
Pippy - wassup buddy? What's the plans for new year's eve?
Axe - congrats on the use of your videos in the Chickenfoot vid, one day I hope I'm in them :0)
Happy new year everyone!! Joe - I hope you celebrate in style.
