Fun with the Guitar!

[GGJaguar]

But it's, the Mel Bay way.

 

[jedzep]

Hah! When I took lessons a hundred years ago, it was a tortuous way. I quit and learned 'Stones' songs by ear.

 

[Opsimath]

Maybe it was the artistic style at the time, but to me the arms and hands look like something from Swamp Thing.

 

[dreadnut]

Hah! When I took lessons a hundred years ago, it was a tortuous way. I quit and learned 'Stones' songs by ear.

I'm with you, Jed - tortuous is absolutely right. I've always played by ear.

 

[walrus]

I spent a lot of time with Mel Bay over the years...

walrus

 

[Guildedagain]

Mel Bay seen through the eyes of Timothy O'Leary ;]

I recently opened a Mel Bay book and realized I have a lot to learn, even in the first few pages.

I'm kid of a geek for old method books, sheet music, songbooks.

Never heard of Kannapolis before.

 

[steve488]

This is the closest I have ever been to a Mel Bay book. I used songbooks (CSN & John Denver initially) and from there by ear or other players for the most part. Fifty years playing the same songs and every once in a while I get one right.....(in my mind's estimation anyway).

 

[The Guilds of Grot]

Never heard of Kannapolis before.

Obviously not a Dale Earnhardt fan.

 

[fronobulax]

Obviously not a Dale Earnhardt fan.

Who?

 

[adorshki]

Who?

Roy Rogers' 3rd wife.

 

[fronobulax]

Roy Rogers' 3rd wife.

That is Triggering a memory. The initials are right.

 

[adorshki]

That is Triggering a memory. The initials are right.

Speaking of Triggering memories, I heard this (apocryphal?) story about about Roy's first divorce..he was grooming the horse when wife comes out and says "Roy, I swear I think you love that horse more than me! Why is that?"

Roy says, "Well honey, for one thing, he doesn't try to throw me off, when I'm in the saddle."

 

[Guildedagain]

My interest with NASCAR ended when Richard Petty stopped driving for Chrysler.

 

[adorshki]

My interest with NASCAR ended when Richard Petty stopped driving for Chrysler.

Wasn't that right about the time Ricardo Montalbon stepped in?




What, he didn't like the seats?

 

[Opsimath]

Speaking of Triggering memories, I heard this (apocryphal?) story about about Roy's first divorce..he was grooming the horse when wife comes out and says "Roy, I swear I think you love that horse more than me! Why is that?"

Roy says, "Well honey, for one thing, he doesn't try to throw me off, when I'm in the saddle."

My ex husband literally told me one day I had to make a decision, it was him or the horse. I didn't even have to think about it.

 

[adorshki]

My ex husband literally told me one day I had to make a decision, it was him or the horse. I didn't even have to think about it.

Did he try to get the saddle in the divorce?

 

[Opsimath]

Absolutely not.