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Just picked my guitar up from the shop.  The total cost of repair was 26 cents.  I can handle repair bills like that. 

If gray is a sign of wisdom, then my chin is pretty darn wise.  I was looking at those pictures thinking, "When did my friends get so old?" 

- Zurf

While I have dealt with service centers all around the world, I have to say that the worst service I ever received was from a service center in the U.S.  I went through five levels of management, and had every single level lie to me.  When I would catch each lie as it was spoken (they must hate someone who has researched the facts on what he expects to come as their lame excuses), I'd get passed to another level of management.  Given that each person I talked to was proven to be a liar, I have no idea whether they were really layers of management or just the person sitting next to them in the cube. 

This came from an airline at a time in the U.S. when Congress was working on a bill to help out the ailing airlines.  I wrote my Senators and my Representative with a CC: to the airline president.  I provided dates, times, names, and the lies each one told me and how I knew they were lies.  The bill didn't pass.  I expect they got a lot of letters like mine.  The airlines weren't ailing because of a weak economy or higher fuel costs.  They were ailing because they treated their customers with disregard and disrespect. 

I have never flown on that airline again.  They sent me a nice apology letter and $1,200 worth of "dollars" that could be spent only on their airline.  Too bad.  They lied to me too many times and have lost my business.  I can't say that I'd never sell out, but it sure will take more than $1,200 of airline dollars as a price. 

- Zurf

10

10 Little Indians

Sorry I missed this.  I hope you had a great day.  Sounds like you had fun, and good for you for being able to remember it.

I was about to have a snort anyway, so I'll raise the glass in your honor tonight.  Maybe twice.

- Zurf

MY HOUSE!!

Practice scales and arpeggios.  In the arpeggios, be especially certain to practice them on minor, sevenths, and minor seventh chords.  Once you have scales down very well, practice modal scales. 

Not that I follow my own advice or anything, but if I were to want to play jazz guitar, that's how I'd go about starting. 

Once you've got the practicing of scales well underway, go buy some Al Jarreau and George Benson albums.  Yeah, I know Al Jarreau is a singer, but he is amazing.  If you can play what Al Jarreau sings you're once heck of a jazz guitarist. 

- Zurf

Yes it is a great story.  Here I thought duct tape and WD-40 fixed everything, but now I learn that Super-Glue is needed in case of surgery. 

Landshark isn't helping either.  I may have to go buy some Sam Adams or some Magic Hat.  If that doesn't work, I may be subjected to practice. 

- Zurfluh

Still one of my favorites to play - "Forever and Ever Amen" by Randy Travis. 

- Zurf

My advice (which is notoriously suspect and frequently ignorant) is to strum what sounds "right" until your version is the one you hear in your head and the song you're trying to cover sounds a little bit off. 

- Zurf

It is.  My sister has one she bought 30 or more years ago, and it sounds sweeeeet!  The tone and playability have seemed to improve with age.  When she needed money, I'd buy it from her for a while, then give it back to her when she was a little more flush.  It's a crazy way to lend a sister money, but we're a crazy family.  The point is, a time or two that guitar was mine and it is NICE. 

So, yeah, Epiphone makes some real nice acoustics (or at least they used to be nice, I know nothing about whether they've changed things in the past 30 odd years). 

- Zurf