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I'd love a twelve string, but my office is getting pretty full.  I'd have to build on a house extension to fit more guitars.  Not that that's a bad thing...

Yeah.  I call those 711 songs - same joke.  Sing it acapela.  OK now sing it fast.  Now sing it with just the drums.  Now the full band - louder, louder, louder.  Now the electric guitar solo.  Now a quick stop and just the lead singer (eyes closed and face heavenward of course) - others joining in as they realize the song hasn't actually stopped.  Now start the rhythm back in.  Full band again.  Now real slow.  OK now make sure that there are people hanging on to certain words very loudly in their microphones - about an octave above.  Now back to acapela (and make it a prayer). 

Not my speed.  Some folks like it.  It's supposed to put one in the mood for worship and to praise the Lord, but I just don't get it.  I don't object, I just don't get it.  I'll wait for my turn on something like this for modern "worship" music: v=ShAfHM4npdk&feature=related

- Zurf

My experience with Scotsmen is that they don't speak English either.  (Sorry, couldn't resist)   

True story.  I was camping with a Scotsman and a southwestern Virginia hillbilly.  The hillbilly had a southern accent mixed with a mountain accent.  The Scotsman spoke like a Scot (which he will tell you is how all people ought to talk and everyone else has an accent but him).  So anyway, they're sitting beside one another at the campfire absolutely enthralled by each other whenever the other opened his mouth.  Finally, someone said "I've never seen either of you so polite and pay such close attention to another.  What's going on?"  Each of them said at the same time, "Because I can't understand a word he says.  Is it English?" 

- Zurf

The U.S. has a poor history of success in nation-building.  I think maybe we should start listening to our own song and allow democracy to come from within Egypt's own people. 

- Zurf

I want it.  I want it.  I want it.  I want it.

You caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan't have it.

- The Who, Magic Bus

This Old House by Neil Young, also Unknown Legend by Neil Young

- Zurf

Chordie's song book feature is a search engine.  The songs you see on Chordie are hosted (and posted) on other sites.  Sometimes you'll see chord versions and tab versions of the same song.  Sometimes you'll see multiple chord versions.  Sometimes you'll see where someone has posted what he/she thinks is an accurate rendition of the original artist and sometimes you'll see a simplified arrangement for campfire picking.  There are folks who  are interested in each of these.

Me, personally, I'm not at all interested in doing 'accurate' covers of songs and even if I get an accurate chord chart, I'm going to arrange.  My way of thinking is that if someone wants to hear the way it was done by the original artist, they can listen to their iPod.  Also, I don't have a band, so it's going to be very difficult for me to play exactly the way people expect to hear it.  So I like those simplified chord arrangments that hit the highlights.  It's nice to see the tab for certain key phrases and riffs, though. 

As far as tab, it's for folks who don't read music.  It's not suitable for someone who doesn't already know the song to try and play because there is no indication of beat and rhythm with tab.  Only full blown reading of standard music notation gives pitch, duration, and rhythm to allow someone to play a song "fresh." 

- Zurf

I listened to "Too Gone for Too Long" because I reminded myself of it.  I had forgotten this line, one of the best kiss-off lines ever.  "You've come a long way going the wrong way.  Don't even set your suitcase down." 

- Zurf

John Prine!  Good call Selso.  How about "They tortured the timber and stripped all the land, then wrote it all down as the progress of man" from Paradise.

For a time, I was thinking about cutting some albums, playlists now I guess, with the theme of Hello on one and Go to (a very warm place some people consider to be mythical).  From the Go to... one, I had a few songs in mind. 

Randy Travis, Too Gone for Too Long, "You're an old rolling stone who's rolled over the hill."

Johnny Cash, Cry, Cry, Cry, "You'll come back to me for some love that's true, but you're going to cry, cry, cry."

- Zurf

I'm getting better with barre chords myself - buying a guitar with a low action has helped a lot!  Nevertheless, B remains evil. 

- Zurf