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Sounds great Pete - keep it up!

Ah the pick turn. An old enemy of mine. I have a few suggestions...The picks Davesworld refers to are Dunlop Tortex or Dunlop Gator Grips. Those are the best picks money can buy. The grip really helps. In addition, you may try these things:

1. Wash your hands right before you play. I've found that nice clean fingers hold a pick better than dirty fingers. I like my fretting hand to be a bit slippery (particularly when I'm doing the sliding and position shifting associated with solos), so I wash and dry my hands and then re-lube my left hand or fretboard with Finger Ease. Gross alternative: if you're in a pinch (ie at a gig and making lots of fret noise or fingers start grabbing) you can run your left hand fingers over your scalp (unless you just took a shower) and that helps out just as well.

2. Practice with the pick turned backward and sideways so you are comfy if it happens.

3. My personal favorite: I keep my right rear pocket about 1/2 full with picks. If a pick turns, splits, falls to the ground or falls in the sound hole I just reach back, grab another pick and go!  I like this approach better than the mic stand pick holders - I went for a pick a bit too fast once and knocked my mic over. Felt like an a**hole and totally learned my lesson on that one.

Again, sounds great - keep it up!

I was suggesting that perhaps mozart and bach are more influential as composers, not musicians.

Jerome the note in blues that we play as a flatted third has an origin roots in field work songs where the blue note was less than a semi-tone flat of a natural third. We interpret it as a b3 because of how western music theory is notated (and because of fixed pitch instruments) but the origin of the note that makes up the blues scale is more like 1/2 way between a b3 and a natural 3.

I did not know I was supposed to do that. Thanks.

Without earlier advocates of equal temperament we'd not have those scales, at least as we know them today. Also, the blues (foundation of much of modern rock) is based around a note that does not exist in modernized diatonic scales and keys...

That's a Madeira. It was a low end import from Guild in the late 60's and early 70's. It was a Christmas gift when I was 5 or 6 and I've played it nearly every day since then.

I recently bought another Madeira, same model, but it doesn't quite have the sound. I got lucky with mine.

Not being critical, but I also have problems with slowness or failure to load approximately 2-3 times a week and I'm on a pretty fast connection. Also have been a few sql errors lately....

LOL smarta**es.

Dino I just did a 2.5 day fishing trip out of San Diego about three weeks ago. We floated around for 12 hours and caught 35 yellowtail in just under 6 hours. Then the next day we floated around for 7 hours until we got in to a small but unresponsive school of bluefin tuna and caught 2 of those.

The yellowtail is phenomenal.

Here's me fishing. I'm the one making the dumb face:

With guitar:

Posts like this make me wish for a like button.

OH OH OH...you stomp on it! I thought it was something you plug in to your guitar lawlz.

Do you have any samples of the sound?