In my experience, what women really like to hear from their guitar-playing significant others is some classical pieces while they take a relaxing bath. Offers to bring your amp and effects to see if it's possible to dial in your favourite tones in an acoustically bright environment are met with some resistance!

And I've met more than a few dudes who approach a GIRL playing the guitar with assumptions, that I suck at it and only know how to play the latest "Top 40" hit.
HA.
Please.

This one time, when I wanted to see how bad Squiers actually were, since a ton of people said how bad the quality was, I got Mom to take me to the music store we have down here. But it turned out to be just a big blow out.
The guy who helped us out in the store sat us down and handed me a Tele--not a Squier, just a really awesome Tele. He got a cord and I plugged into an amp that was there, and instantly, I fell in love with it.
I then tried a Strat, but I knew from when I held it that I liked the Tele better. I played all the same stuff on the Strat as I did on the Tele, and told the dude what the "verdict" was; the Tele was the victor.
"Ah, yes, I would've thought that you'd like the Telecaster better because it suits girls better--and it helps with their small hands and all."
....
I just about lost it.
It took everything I had not to go ape*bleep* on this dude, but I just slapped on a fake smile and laughed politely.
THAT is when I broke out the finger tapping and began to "shred".

Anyway.
Pardon my story/rant.
Needless to say, we walked out of there empty-handed.

Mellow out.

Old threads are fun and amusing. Our society is SO freaking-stinking "today-sensitive."

Does it mean anything if one is a guitar player and then generates three daughters?

Do guitarists have more daughters than the general population?

My guitars are my boyfriends.

And interestingly enough, though all three girls took music up through middle school and 2 still have guitars, none play much.

"It's too hard....it takes too much time to get anything right...."

Ah, the modern need for instant gratification, combined with the atterntion span of a gerbil on a disco floor...what a killer of potential musicians.

And the funny thing is, Telecasters have thicker necks (most of the time) than Strats do so they actually wouldn't be good for small hands. I'm more of a Strat person myself, but my little brother has a Squier Telecaster that I like quite a bit. I just have to wipe the neck and strings off with a wet rag before I play it because his hands are always sticky for some reason. lol

It is funny when people assume that since you're a girl you must play acoustic guitar and pop music. They don't really expect you to play electric guitar and they really don't expect it when you suddenly break into the Freebird solo or Eruption.

To be honest with you, Kash and Texgitslinger, I expected you to be guys by the way you presented yourselves, and partially it's probably coming from my subconscious half-sexist beliefs. BTW, people regard me as being very honest, so that's just me. I guess I didn't experience that many female guitarists where I come from. But I totally dig anyone who digs the blues and DIGS rock (the good kind, not the kind that makes you wonder, 'my God is this the kind they'd put in Sharon Stone's car if they finally found one,' instead of 'this is quite alright. I hope Danny DeVito hears about this.')


-The Screamin' J

Why continue to mislead people... the truth is that women love bass players!

I think (unfortunately) that bass players are the most underpraised members of any band. Like in Led Zeppelin. John Paul Jones plays exactly the same rhythm parts as Jimmy Page in songs like The Lemon Song, Black Dog, the solo to Dazed and Confused, Whole Lotta Love, and Moby Dick. I am not a bassist myself but I think they deserve more credit. Some bands have KILLER bass lines!