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Good advice above.  I just wanted to welcome you to guitar and to Chordie and to wish you luck.  The basic theory is tough, but it's good stuff to know.  As you begin to play more and more songs and see how much faster you are to learn them and the leads than some doofus who just started banging out chords at a campfire (a la me), you'll be glad you muscled through. 

- Zurf

The surgeon general has determined that operating heavy machinery while getting pregnant can be hazardous to your health. 

- Zurf

Re-mote is twice as good.  You don't just mote, you re-mote. 

How about a mote?  You've got to have a mote and a drawbridge to be a proper king. 

Micky,

No names for my guitars.  I refer to them by type.  "The fretless", "the Yamaha acoustic", "the classical", etc.  No real nicknames.  Except possibly for my Ovation Magnum bass, which by the second set used to get called "that overweight hunk of mahogony".  Then again, it's got enough sustain that I think I could hit a note at the end of the first set, go take a break, strap it back on at the beginning of the second set and have to mute the note before starting a new song. 

- Zurf

A properly installed guitar hanger of good quality will not harm your guitar.

I use a floor stand and keep my guitar right beside my desk.  Every time I do a download, I'm strumming or picking something.

Ken - You can't move.  What's a king (even an unofficial one) without a castle?

- Zurf

No worries Ken.  That was pretty much going to be the point of my message.  We are all equal, and while some want to kill us and we are thereby obligated to prevent them from doing so, they are nevertheless equal to us as human beings.  So, while I do see them as my enemies, and do not see a possibility of reconciliation with them meaning that they will remain my enemies, I do not hate them.  I do believe in God, and I do believe that God loves everyone - even including my enemies.  I further believe that in the instruction to love my enemies.  Here, love is meant as a verb and not as a noun.  When I say we should love our enemies, I do not mean that we should feel all mushy about them and want to kiss them.  I mean we should treat them with respect and dignity even as we kill them.  We ought not to kill them out of some sense of vengeance, because vengeance can never be satisfied.  We ought not to kill them out of an emotional response of hatred, because hatred is self-perpetuating and breeds more hatred.  We do need to recognize our enemies and prevent them from the harm they mean to do to us.  We are entitled to that, merely by dint of having been born human.  For the most part, and admitting a great deal of ignorance on the subject, and remembering a few notable exceptions, the U.S. and UK militaries have run just that sort of war.  They have ferociously pursued and killed our enemies, while being kind and merciful to the non-combatant countrymen of our enemies.  I am thinking here most specifically of Fallujah.  Remember that?  It was a known hideout of terrorists, but it was also known that the terrorists were embedding themselves through force into families and schools and hospitals, surrounding themselves with innocents.  There were a couple of options.  First, we could have gassed the town with flammable gas, carpet bombed it, then sent in bulldozers to flatten the rubble.  We would have killed the terrorists, but we would also have killed everyone else.  The second option was the one they did.  They sent in Marines to knock down doors, find the terrorists, then shoot them.  There were a lot of families angry that they didn't have doors any longer, and that the Marines were rough on them in front of their children.  But the reality of it is that the Marines were risking themselves to save those people's lives.  That is a terrific example of what I mean by "love our enemies." 

- Zurf

On rich versus poor, the difference is in quality of representation. 

As far as how policemen interrogate suspects, I have no idea having never been a suspect.  My sister was a suspect for the murder of her husband once and the police treated her firmly but with as much respect as possible given the circumstances.  Her husband was not murdered by the way.  It was a freak accident, but until that conclusion was reached by the investigators my sister was a suspect.  As I said, the police did their best to treat her with courtesy and respect given the unfortunate circumstances. 

I think the body language thing is more of a TV thing than reality.  If you brought body language as evidence to a judge, that judge would rightly toss the evidence in the trashcan where it belonged. 

I think the reason for the long sentences has to do with when someone is eligible for parole.  If a crime carries a 10 year sentence, the person may be eligible for parole in 3 years.  (I'm making up these numbers as examples, by the way.)  But if the person is convicted on ten counts for a 100 year sentence, then he may not be eligible for parole for 30 years. 

- Zurf

Go to I'm starting to work on this myself.  I'm using the lessons on scales on www.justinguitar.com.  Leads are nothing more than applications of scales.

- Zurf

Lovely guitar.  So glad you found something to suit your needs.

- Zurf

It's just so true.