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Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 3:30 pm
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I think there are a lot of decent bands around now but a lot of them pass under the radar being eclipsed by all these vapid 'indy pop' bands springing up all over the place.


If you like pure garage band/classic rock, you have to check out these kids from Boulder, CO...Rose Hill Drive. Great rock n roll. Pete Townsend even had them open for The Who on their last tour.

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Cool I'll give em a go, thanks for the heads up.


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how come my parents will pay over 600 $ to go to a colts game but they wont help me pay for my guitar?!
It is a damn good lesson they are teaching you, now you just gotta learn from it .


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Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 11:26 am
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^i just have to figure out what the lesson is :lol:


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:D There is nothing more important a parent can teach their child then to be responsible, self reliant and capable of taking care of themselves.


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well they must be doing too good of a job because my mom says i'm too independent :wink:


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My parents bought my first guitar......and that was it.

Ever since then, if I wanted something better I had to find a way to get it myself. Mowing lawns, shoveling driveways, delivering papers, walking in the snow uphill both ways...anything to get that better guitar. It made each purchase a little more special. That was my guitar damnit, I earned every inch of it.

I remember how friggin happy I was when I bought a Takamine 12 string in 1976 for $200. Man...the first real guitar that was actually mine!!! Way cool!!

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my first (and current and only) guitar, my dad payed a little less than half of the guitar. Now, anything else involving my guitar exploits, I get no help on

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Reference life being not fair: if your parents have a guitar, you can appropriate that and make it yours by playing it. Guitars are yours if you play them. Otherwise, they're wild and free.

Reference life being unfair,

A few years ago, when I was 35, I was diagnosed with lymphoma. I had about a 50 percent shot of living 5 years, because I had plenty of it after being sick for years with a mystery illness. Mystery solved: a fatal inoperable cancer was why I was tired and sick and hat that bump in my neck. They had a good treatment with a lot of chemo which causes irreperable neurological damage but saves you. I had gotten back into playing guitar and played more than ever before starting a couple of years before I found out I had the cancer, and I figured I'd be able to practice guitar a huge amount and become the next Clapton. Too bad the I.V.s and caustic chemo tore up my arms so much that I couldn't play then, plus I was too tired. So now though I'm alive many years later and kicking. The long-term neurological stuff is stuff you can live with. :D I play guitar every day usually and I play better than ever.

Life is unfair in the sense it's uneven. You don't have to be. One reason I admire BB King is nobody handed him any breaks when he was a sharecropper in Mississippi, but he just played until he was so good the world noticed. Then he got better, and he keeps going until he drops. That's the only way.

Kaiser's a big hospital foundation where I live and they have got a commercial. A girls walking around with the chemo hat on to hide the missing hair and she sees a guitar in the window. She picks it up and takes it home. It's not a Stratocaster, like it should be. Looks like a Les Paul. The point's good though. You can keep playing until they take the guitar from your hands, and then maybe in the hereafter. Music is with you whatever else falls apart. Never give it up.


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Great message, well said.

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strat58cat wrote:
A few years ago, when I was 35, I was diagnosed with lymphoma. I had about a 50 percent shot of living 5 years.


Sorry to hear about that episode in your life. Almost 8 years ago I was hit with kidney cancer, a cancer that doesn't really respond to any chemo. Well, I'm fine now and while I don't talk about it much, going thru things like that sure do add perspective to an otherwise normal life.

By the way, I noticed having cancer caused a huge case of G.A.S. Did that happen to you too? :wink:

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"I noticed having cancer caused a huge case of G.A.S. Did that happen to you too?"

Perspective exactly is what cancer does like you say. Didn't give me GAS, you know, it was just the opposite. It's been a long time ago now, and I don't think I've bought anything that wasn't broken since. As much as I play, and have for years, I used a Squier and a solid-state amp way too long. I think the experience caused me to disregard material things as useless and just caused me to be less interested in most worldly things. Also, the treatment I had was pretty extensive chemo and it caused a lot of neurological changes that changed me. Lost a lot of that GAS re cars and whatnot. Lately the GAS has been hitting only with music gear because music is something sweet. I'll probably play my Highway One and Blues Junior until they look like hell, and by then I'll be able to play more and better.


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