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Too cool, daddy.

James is da man.

Sorry, slash... I dont' think you're gonna find much sympathy here.

Like most of the folks on here who are my age or older, I worked at your age. I carried 210 papers each morning and cut grass or shoveled snow in the evenings when I was 10. You should seriously think about a paper route, or something like that.

Or ask your parent(s).

I know I'm new here, and should probably keep my yap shut, but I am rarely capable of that...

I didn't pay any sort of membership dues to belong to Chordie, and I don't get a bunch of SPAM from them, either. I have found a bunch of great transcriptions through this site, and have been very impressed by the diversity of the collection of songs here.

Seems to me complaining about such a useful site is looking a gift horse in the mouth.

If you don't like the Ultimate transcriptions, don't use them...

Certainly constructive feedback to the admin can be helpful, but "it sucks" is not constructive, and accomplishes nothing.

I'm done now.

Another thing, vhag...

if you know 10 chords, there are a multitude of songs that you will be able to play.

You might want to find a song that you like that has chords in it that you know, then learn to play that song. It will teach you changes, and learning a song is motivation. Hearing all those lonely chords come together into something you recognize is certainly a revolution!

Fun song, DC.

Wish I could skate.

a mental picture of a hippo in a tu-tu would be appropriate here!

Thanks, all.

One of the great things in my life are my memories of my Grandpa.

Old Doll - I can relate. Grandpa used to roll his own cigarettes. Bugler tobacco and a leather strap rolling machine. I found one of the rolling machines in an antique store and bought it. (Bugler used to give them away if you sent in so many empty packs of rolling papers!).

Many evenings I spent sitting across from him at the kitchen table, watching him roll his cigarettes, smelling the tobacco, and listening to his country, West Virginia drawl. Hypnotic.

Everytime I smell fresh-cut tobacco, it reminds me of him.

Thanks again, all. Nice to have warm memories.

(great story, Roger! )

vhagopian,

Welcome!

I started playing two years ago, when I turned 38.

You are on the right track. All I can add to what bud_wiser said is to maybe not think of it as a task, but as a part of your life. Just realize that you will spend thirty minutes or so each night for the rest of your life playing music (and what you are playing now IS music). Everything else will fall into place without you hardly realizing it.

And get around players as often as you can.

Good luck, and welcome to an awesome site, and a groovy new world!

Thanks, Jeff.

Mine was awesome, but you didn't want to piss him off! 

I might play this one for the wifey.

well done, and not too many chords!  Thanks, Roger.

Doc,

I couldn't agree with you more.

I have been having this argument with my wife since American Idol (aka - Pop Idol in the UK, I think) first aired.

All of these, as you so rightly put it, "whohoowho" singers are really not contributing anything to the world of music, or its history. They may have good voices (if they ever held a note), but they are absolutely "cookie-cutter" sounds that do not inspire any emotion or response, other than nausea and, possibly, dry heaves.

It is as if they are just an excuse to lay down a snappy backbeat that the kids can dance to. My daughter is one of those kids. She can't tell you the words to most of the songs she listens to, but as soon as she hears the "wickey-wickey-boom" she starts gyrating.

Even a voice as suspect as Bob Dylan is preferable to me. At least he had character, emotion, and his own sound. The current trend in pop music disturbs me. I guess that's why I stick to folks like Guy Davis, Bob Dylan, and Neil Young (another distinctive, emotional voice that would probably have never won American Idol).

Bravo, Doc. Great thread, and astute observation (as usual!)