Steve....based on your earlier comments, you sound like a guy who has been down the road and paid some serious dues!! Been there, done that!

Cost my one of my stepsons $3 million dollars as part of his recent divorce settlement and, in spite of it all, he's out there again, cruising the meatracks in his $80K Mercedes, looking for the next knife in the water.

Doc

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"Another day in paradise!"

Yes, I've paid some Blues dues. I have basically given up on a relationship down here. Most of the women are looking for a free ride. The conspicuous consumption down here is incredible. Most women are wearing rings with diamonds bigger than the headlight on my first motorcycle.

When my kids come down to visit from CT, which is a rather affluent state, they see cars they only see up north in ads. I live near the tax enclave (and nationally imfamous speed trap) called Golden Beach where 461 Ocean Blvd actually is. Clapton stayed there while he recorded the album of the same name down the road at the legendary Criterion Studios. It was the same place where I was cutoff by an idiot in a freakin' Astin-Martin DB-7. Who besides James Bond needs a freakin' Astin-Martin?!

I may be way off topic here. Sorry for venting.

I know the area well and the 'types'...not only the bimbos, but the dumbos who support their habit.

Over on my side there's St. Andrew's, the Polo Club, the newly built 'The Oaks' where my dear friend and former bandmate's daughter lives.

(He lives in Lakeland, now, fomerly from Coral Springs. It will be great to be close by someone I've known for better than 50 years and shared some many great times on stage.)

But I digress: However she doesn't fit the mold. She's high end, but self-determined, creative, and was so even before she married well. She was never a sponge.

You and I have a lot of coffee or beer, or both, to mull over in the future, should providence remain kind. Perhaps we can drag a few other locals into it as well. They seem to be out there and, hopefully, Mike will find his way south again and be able to join in on the fun.

Doc

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"Another day in paradise!"

Looking forward to it.

that's one of the reasons i started playing. but it really wasn't until i started writing good songs....that's when it really, really happened.

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Interesting...! Last night I watched the John Mayer set on "Soundstage". Now I don't take anything away from his technical abilities as a musician, or a writer, but a great deal of the guitar work went to his first lead and rhythm guys while he handled his pop vocals, fronting on both acoustic and electric, playing some small solos.

Obviously his writing appeals to a large female audience. He is also quite animated as a performer and the ladies love it.

For the life of me, I don't know what the hell is coming out of his mouth in the way of lyrics. Sound like someone under dental treatment, numb to the nines, with a mouth full of cotton. Yet all the ladies are singing along with him.

We know his debt to SRV, and that's quite an asset, but I also sense a tad of the Dave Matthew's in the stage presence and approach and wonder if he hasn't made a serious study of what it takes to make things happen. More power to him if he can ride that train in his own style and succeed.

Dylan did it to the nines, and the TV bio on him spoke to this.

Whe he invited Buddy Guy out for the last 10 minutes for a rendition of "Damn Right I Got The Blues" the two of them really started to cook, playinig off each other wonderfully.

For my part, Mayer is at heart, a bluesman who has fortunately found a niche in the pop market where he can sell himself. I also have no doubts that his present love interest is significant with respect to the interests of the ladies. Anything to do with Jennifer is front page and money in the bank.

I wish him well in his career. Anyone would be unkind not to, but until he finds himself lost in the blues for a time, I'm content to just sit back and wait.

Doc

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"Another day in paradise!"

Way back when, in my early 20s, I met more than one girl/woman/lady because I am a musician. But that's not necessarily a good thing...

One night at J&J's Blues Bar in Fort Worth, Texas, a friend of mine and myself showed up at a open mic jam. Not a single female even looked our way until we got up there and played (me on harp & vox and he on guitar). Afterwards, several chicks of varying (but mostly low) quality started hitting on us and buying us drinks, etc. But, as we were nice young Christian men, we high-tailed out of there before we caught something that Ajax wouldn't wash off...also, the fact that we both had girlfriends that we were faithful to had some bearing on the matter.

I always wondered if the girls who were attracted to me just because I was a musician would leave me for a better musician or would leave me if I played a song they didn't like...

Ironically, the girl that I eventually married did not give even the slightest crap that I was a musician (guitar, harp, vocals or otherwise); she liked me for me, and that was the biggest turn-on I ever had. Fifteen years on, she's still my best (and most harshly honest) critic and my favorite girl of all time.

...of course, if you're trolling for love, every little bit of bait helps.

Good Vibes To Y'all!

...of course, if you're trolling for love, every little bit of bait helps. Good Vibes To Y'all! [/quote]

Famous last words: the film ''Alice's Restaurant": groupie runs down her list, for Arlo Guthrie, of all the famous artists she's made.

Arlo turns down her offer: No thanks!" "I don't want to catch your cold!!"

Doc

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Yeah, and there's less chance of a pregnancy...oh, wait, that's rhythm method!

Good Vibes To Y'all.

I guess some girls are attracted to guitar players...Just like some are attracted to sports cars hmm and they call guys shallow

as for me i prefer a skinny guy with talent at guitar rather than a swollen no-brain sports car owner
sure these days money & image play a great role in relationships but as a guitar player (!) i think theyre more real. ok some of them are really pretendious.

Guitar players attract girls
Lead singers attract girls
Hot sports cars attract girls
Austrailian/English/Scottish/etc. accents attract girls
Money attracts girls
... the list goes on.

I even heard on one of the news stations a while back that men that have a bulldog appearance tend to attract more beautiful women than pretty boys, go figure...

What's my point?

I have no point...

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True! All true!

I had a band in high school in Sophomore, Junior, and Senior year. I was the singer, and had the standard baggy pants, long hair, pair of chucks, and a sneer. However, I had no female attention.

I got my strat but wasn't much of a player, and never used it on stage; just to write. I was half decent by senior year, and one day the bassist and I wanted to work on some new material during lunch. So my strat came to school with me in its gig bag that day.

Holy crap. Girls I didn't even realize knew my name were talking to me. And they didn't ask about the guitar. It was mostly school, TV, events in town, etc. It was all quite surreal. During lunch, the bassist and I were working out some tunes I'd been playing around with. We gave one a dry run, with me playing (sort of) and singing. Before the song was over, we'd attracted a crowd of about 10. All girls.

"What band does that song?"
"um.. we do. I wrote it."
(chattering amongst themselves) "he wrote that!"

The guitar never came to school with me again accept for at-school gigs. The occurrence never repeated. Those girls that talked to me didn't do it again. I NEVER saw our lunchtime groupies again.

On the slipside, my fiancée adored that I played when we met, and would ask me to play her songs. Now it's: "ugh, are you playing that damn guitar again?"

Yes. Yes I am.

If it were true that guitarists are chick magnets, than I'd be carrying a guitar case everywhere I go. But let's face it, unless you've hit and are pulling in scratch and fame with your guitar ... you're just another hack among millions of hacks. These days, it seems like ever other guy and 1 out of every 4 girls plays guitar.

Dude where have you been? Chicks dig musicians. There are legions of goofy looking bastards out there who only EVER get laid because the are in a band.

There are even more losers with no job, no car, and no cash who get laid solely on the basis of being in a band (and not even a good band at that)

These bimbos are called . . . GROUPIES

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