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Post subject: JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT YOU WEREN'T GETTING OLD......
Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2019 11:04 am
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Those of you who are charter members of the Forums should recall 'texasguitarslinger' and when that then, young aspiring six-stringer joined the herd. If you've not been following Rebecca Laird on other social media, this will serve to inform you that she's about to graduate college with a degree in music, has become an accomplished guitar player, and is planning to get married to a young man from Scotland. She still owns the Forum Stratocaster we helped her build, and holds it in great reverence.

Feel good about yourselves, mates. We've had our share of sad songs across the years. This one is better.

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Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2019 11:13 am
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User was about 15 years old when she joined the forum. Now she's 25.

I wonder how many young male guitar players have been wholly ignored by this forum in the meantime. Aren't any of you guys interested in building a "Forumcaster" for any of the young boys who are members here?? :lol:


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Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2019 11:19 am
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ghost_of_strings wrote:
User was about 15 years old when she joined the forum. Now she's 25.

I wonder how many young male guitar players have been wholly ignored by this forum in the meantime. Aren't any of you guys interested in building a "Forumcaster" for any of the young boys who are members here?? :lol:


We've done far better than that in the past. Here's hoping that continuing good health will oblige you to never be the beneficiary of the generosity of this membership. :wink:

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Post subject: Re: JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT YOU WEREN'T GETTING OLD......
Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2019 11:40 am
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you're talking to the wrong person Doc. I've completely lost my faith in the kindness of people. All of them. I held off posting here for a month or so and nobody noticed. Or maybe they noticed and were pleased. I'm leaning toward that line from the movie "War Games".

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Post subject: Re: JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT YOU WEREN'T GETTING OLD......
Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2019 12:03 pm
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you're talking to the wrong person Doc. I've completely lost my faith in the kindness of people. All of them. I held off posting here for a month or so and nobody noticed. Or maybe they noticed and were pleased. I'm leaning toward that line from the movie "War Games".

"The only winning move is not to play."


I had concerns waaay back when FMIC announced they were moving into Facebook. It and other social media platforms divide the time. I'm not here as often as I used to be yet quite a few of the members and I regularly 'talk' on Facebook. Brad's got two different pages. The Custom Shop has its own. I follow Mike Eldred's new career with great interest. The current jefe of 'the Shop' doesn't seem to want to put int he time Mike used to. For all we know, the 'suits' have told him to back off. When memory serves, I scan the Forums for items of interest or something like this thread pops up and pulls me back in. As to the earlier comments, what we did for Miami Mike when he was recovering from cancer surgery 12 years ago, and for 'Martian', of blessed memory, when he had to sell his last guitar to make ends meet, still makes me proud of this group.

Hang in there!

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you're talking to the wrong person Doc. I've completely lost my faith in the kindness of people. All of them. I held off posting here for a month or so and nobody noticed. Or maybe they noticed and were pleased. I'm leaning toward that line from the movie "War Games".

"The only winning move is not to play."

I also encourage you to hang in there. As far as this forum goes, people tend to come and go all the time. It's hard to keep track of everyone. I myself can go months without posting, then come back again and post regularly. I would doubt people are purposefully ignoring you.

As far as people are concerned, it's human to lose faith in individuals but it would be a mistake to lose faith in humanity. The times in my life when I was most miserable were those when I was living "in my own head," dwelling on myself and my own problems. Conversely, many of the happiest times were those when I made the effort to reach out to others. Sometimes, that can burn you. More often than not, though, if you show kindness to others, the kindness will be returned to you in spades. I'm sorry if you're going through a rough patch GOS, I can assure you it does get better. And I can assure you there are people out there who can help lighten the load if things get too heavy.


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Thank you for posting Doc, congratulations Texas!
It is always good to see your post ghost of strings. 8)

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Post subject: Re: JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT YOU WEREN'T GETTING OLD......
Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2019 5:45 am
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ZZDoc wrote:
ghost_of_strings wrote:
you're talking to the wrong person Doc. I've completely lost my faith in the kindness of people. All of them. I held off posting here for a month or so and nobody noticed. Or maybe they noticed and were pleased. I'm leaning toward that line from the movie "War Games".

"The only winning move is not to play."


I had concerns waaay back when FMIC announced they were moving into Facebook. It and other social media platforms divide the time. I'm not here as often as I used to be yet quite a few of the members and I regularly 'talk' on Facebook. Brad's got two different pages. The Custom Shop has its own. I follow Mike Eldred's new career with great interest. The current jefe of 'the Shop' doesn't seem to want to put int he time Mike used to. For all we know, the 'suits' have told him to back off. When memory serves, I scan the Forums for items of interest or something like this thread pops up and pulls me back in. As to the earlier comments, what we did for Miami Mike when he was recovering from cancer surgery 12 years ago, and for 'Martian', of blessed memory, when he had to sell his last guitar to make ends meet, still makes me proud of this group.

Hang in there!

Doc :wink:



Yes and being on the receiving end, I'm forever thankful for "the gang" on this forum!

I'm also following Becca and watching her progress...
http://www.rebeccalaird.com/styled/index.html

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Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2019 5:59 am
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ghost_of_strings wrote:
you're talking to the wrong person Doc. I've completely lost my faith in the kindness of people. All of them. I held off posting here for a month or so and nobody noticed. Or maybe they noticed and were pleased. I'm leaning toward that line from the movie "War Games".

"The only winning move is not to play."


I had concerns waaay back when FMIC announced they were moving into Facebook. It and other social media platforms divide the time. I'm not here as often as I used to be yet quite a few of the members and I regularly 'talk' on Facebook. Brad's got two different pages. The Custom Shop has its own. I follow Mike Eldred's new career with great interest. The current jefe of 'the Shop' doesn't seem to want to put int he time Mike used to. For all we know, the 'suits' have told him to back off. When memory serves, I scan the Forums for items of interest or something like this thread pops up and pulls me back in. As to the earlier comments, what we did for Miami Mike when he was recovering from cancer surgery 12 years ago, and for 'Martian', of blessed memory, when he had to sell his last guitar to make ends meet, still makes me proud of this group.

Hang in there!

Doc :wink:



Yes and being on the receiving end, I'm forever thankful for "the gang" on this forum!

I'm also following Becca and watching her progress...
http://www.rebeccalaird.com/styled/index.html


This bio is back a good 6 years. No doubt she's aware of this. I'm guessing that she may have had little time directing her attention to an update. She's dealing with final exams presently. I'll not put that in front of her until it's all over. Her Facebook page is ripe with the usual need to study gripes. After three academic degrees I can certainly commisserate with her. :twisted:

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That's her Forumcaster she's playing.

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Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2019 10:32 am
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ghost_of_strings wrote:
User was about 15 years old when she joined the forum. Now she's 25.

I wonder how many young male guitar players have been wholly ignored by this forum in the meantime. Aren't any of you guys interested in building a "Forumcaster" for any of the young boys who are members here?? :lol:


I don’t really know you, but it sounds like you’ve got some rough stuff going on in your life right now and I don’t want to start out on the wrong foot. So first of all, hang in there! And everyone is absolutely right about not loosing your faith in humanity - it’s easy to generalize and think that everything’s going horribly and no one cares but people do care and have generally good motives (I think).

As for whether this forum would’ve done the same for a young man, I think we would. I don’t expect you to know this, but I come from a working class background and my brother has special needs. When I joined this forum when I was 15-16, my Mom was undergoing cancer treatment (which was successful, thankfully!) and I had no transportation or source of income. When I was 17, I got a part time job at a local guitar shop and began playing gigs for money. My problem was that my gear wasn’t holding up. I had a Squier Strat, that I loved (and still do), but the frets had worn down and it desperately needed a refret. I also had a highway one Strat that I had bought from a friend, but it also had tiny frets and my question to the forum was which guitar should I save up to refret. The forum members probably had a general idea of what was going on in my life at the time and generously offered to help me get the parts for my first professional level guitar! It meant the world to me, and it was the first really good thing to happen to me in my teens. Today, I’m marginally successful for a college student and if I heard of a young man in the same sort of situation I was in when I was 17, I wouldn’t hesitate to help him.

In addition, “we only hired you because you’re a girl” is something actual band leaders have told me to my face, and I can tell you that receiving special treatment for your gender is something that every female musician dreads. To be taken seriously, we have to be twice as good. And even then, we have to wonder whether we’ll still get gigs in our 30s and 40s. It’s something that keeps me up at night, and it’s given me an inferiority complex like you wouldn’t believe. No matter how good I get (and I don’t believe I’ve gotten anywhere near the “twice as good” threshold that I aim for), I have to doubt my every success. That’s no way to live as an artist, but it’s the unfortunate reality of working in a traditionally masculine environment. So I know you’re frustrated, but please think about how saying things like “I bet that wouldn’t have happened if she were a guy” can affect young female musicians. I’m lucky that I can recognize it now and that I can mostly deal with it, but it was devastating for me to hear stuff like that when I was a teenager.

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Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2019 10:38 am
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ZZDoc wrote:
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ZZDoc wrote:
ghost_of_strings wrote:
you're talking to the wrong person Doc. I've completely lost my faith in the kindness of people. All of them. I held off posting here for a month or so and nobody noticed. Or maybe they noticed and were pleased. I'm leaning toward that line from the movie "War Games".

"The only winning move is not to play."


I had concerns waaay back when FMIC announced they were moving into Facebook. It and other social media platforms divide the time. I'm not here as often as I used to be yet quite a few of the members and I regularly 'talk' on Facebook. Brad's got two different pages. The Custom Shop has its own. I follow Mike Eldred's new career with great interest. The current jefe of 'the Shop' doesn't seem to want to put int he time Mike used to. For all we know, the 'suits' have told him to back off. When memory serves, I scan the Forums for items of interest or something like this thread pops up and pulls me back in. As to the earlier comments, what we did for Miami Mike when he was recovering from cancer surgery 12 years ago, and for 'Martian', of blessed memory, when he had to sell his last guitar to make ends meet, still makes me proud of this group.

Hang in there!

Doc :wink:



Yes and being on the receiving end, I'm forever thankful for "the gang" on this forum!

I'm also following Becca and watching her progress...
http://www.rebeccalaird.com/styled/index.html


This bio is back a good 6 years. No doubt she's aware of this. I'm guessing that she may have had little time directing her attention to an update. She's dealing with final exams presently. I'll not put that in front of her until it's all over. Her Facebook page is ripe with the usual need to study gripes. After three academic degrees I can certainly commisserate with her. :twisted:


I know! :lol: I’m aware of how badly everything needs to be updated! Unfortunately that will have to wait until I’ve finished a 20 page research paper, a recital program (complete with mini-bios of the people I’ve covering), a biology presentation, a music history presentation, and have my wedding invitations sent out! I’m procrastinating pretty badly today too.

Still, it’s good to be back! :D I always said I was going to come back after graduation, and I am. I haven’t had much time at all for the stuff that I love in the last 6 years, so it’s great to look forward to getting back into everything I’ve been neglecting.

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Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2019 12:39 pm
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texasguitarslinger wrote:
ZZDoc wrote:
Miami Mike wrote:
ZZDoc wrote:
ghost_of_strings wrote:
you're talking to the wrong person Doc. I've completely lost my faith in the kindness of people. All of them. I held off posting here for a month or so and nobody noticed. Or maybe they noticed and were pleased. I'm leaning toward that line from the movie "War Games".

"The only winning move is not to play."





I had concerns waaay back when FMIC announced they were moving into Facebook. It and other social media platforms divide the time. I'm not here as often as I used to be yet quite a few of the members and I regularly 'talk' on Facebook. Brad's got two different pages. The Custom Shop has its own. I follow Mike Eldred's new career with great interest. The current jefe of 'the Shop' doesn't seem to want to put int he time Mike used to. For all we know, the 'suits' have told him to back off. When memory serves, I scan the Forums for items of interest or something like this thread pops up and pulls me back in. As to the earlier comments, what we did for Miami Mike when he was recovering from cancer surgery 12 years ago, and for 'Martian', of blessed memory, when he had to sell his last guitar to make ends meet, still makes me proud of this group.

Hang in there!

Doc :wink:



Yes and being on the receiving end, I'm forever thankful for "the gang" on this forum!

I'm also following Becca and watching her progress...
http://www.rebeccalaird.com/styled/index.html


This bio is back a good 6 years. No doubt she's aware of this. I'm guessing that she may have had little time directing her attention to an update. She's dealing with final exams presently. I'll not put that in front of her until it's all over. Her Facebook page is ripe with the usual need to study gripes. After three academic degrees I can certainly commisserate with her. :twisted:


I know! :lol: I’m aware of how badly everything needs to be updated! Unfortunately that will have to wait until I’ve finished a 20 page research paper, a recital program (complete with mini-bios of the people I’ve covering), a biology presentation, a music history presentation, and have my wedding invitations sent out! I’m procrastinating pretty badly today too.

Still, it’s good to be back! :D I always said I was going to come back after graduation, and I am. I haven’t had much time at all for the stuff that I love in the last 6 years, so it’s great to look forward to getting back into everything I’ve been neglecting.


There's no say'in that you have to be an Orianthi or a Tedeschi just to name two. Lord knows you've got the chops, the potential, as well as the music foundation on top of it all. If you could fall into a gig like Carol Kaye did, you'd be made in the shade, and you wouldn't even have to have your hair done, paint your face, or risk losing your hearing.

Just keep on truck'in and we will continue to rage, rage, against the dying of the light, looking towards the day when we will be able to say, 'We knew her when.......'. :wink:

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Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2019 12:19 am
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I started posting here back in 2010 or so when I got back into guitar and particularly Stratocaster playing. It was an exciting adventure as I was learning everything I could about electric guitars etc. Got into some pretty good arguments with other members. OMG don't bring up the subject of tone wood and electrics. Any way I have posted on and off for years. As my knowledge base grew I had fewer questions and posted less but I still enjoy reading some of the threads and posting now and then.

Recently I have noticed that the forum is not what it used to be, not as lively. I though it was just me getting older and getting over the newness of learning about guitars. Now I read in this thread about other members put a lot of stock in what happens here to the point of getting feelings hurt and feeling ignored. I have posted many things, sometimes they take off and sometimes they go dormant as soon as I post them. One should never place too much stock in a blogspot. Its just too impersonal and haphazard, and its not a popularity contest.

As to the forum not being as lively as it used to be, sounds like Facebook has claimed another victim.

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