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I always liked Pink Floyd's 'Animals', though there have surely been many other good ones named here as well. 

- Zurf

I beg to differ SouthPaw41L.  I am quite certain that your socks are a public matter and that we should advise you daily upon them.  Tomorrow you should wear argyle.   Friday is hiking sock day, the kind with the thick heel and toe.  Gray is preferred, but black is acceptable. 

As far as faith, I am completely in agreement that each person's decision is his/her own.  However, in that faith is often an important part of a person's personality and individual makeup, it can be difficult to dissassociate it from all conversation.  That said, while I may from time to time present my own thoughts on the matter, I would never presume to force a particular decision upon another.   That is fair and within the realm of civil conversation, I think.   

- Zurf

42.  Been playing guitar since November of 2006.  This time, that is.  I've attempted the instrument many times before.  I've been playing bass (this time) for about ten years, but lately all my practice time is on guitar.  I haven't given up bass so much as my buddies gave up jamming and it's hard to have interesting bass practice when not accompanying a melodic instrument.  For me, anyway.   

I have enjoyed Chordie a great deal, and especially enjoy the practical theory assistance that has been passed along by my favorite mutant Russell and Jerome (who shows every indication of being a mutant but is too modest to claim it).   I have also greatly enjoyed the original music Chordians have shared on the Songwriting forum.  I'm no song-writer and am impressed by everyone who shows that talent, but the songs I've added to my personal repertoire have come from Selso, James McCormack, and Lone Rebel, so I extend a special thanks to each of them.   

- Zurf

If the Phone Doesn't Ring, It's Me

Just Stopped By to See What Condition My Condition Was In

Flushed From the Bathroom of Your Heart

Dad's Got That Look

- Zurf

Great line Alexpress!  The next line fits it perfectly, and a lot of us have been there, "I drive it forward, but you push me back"

Here's one I heard on the radio this morning from Pickup Man, sorry I don't know the artist.

"You can set fire to my truck and roll it down a hill,
and I still wouldn't trade it for a Coupe deVille."

Gosh, there's a lot of good lyrics out there.  Lots of really dopey ones too, but so many good ones. 

- Zurf

Dang buddy, I hate to see that.  I'll say a prayer for him, and another for you too.  Not sure what more I can do for you at this point.  The limits of only knowing someone through letters on a screen.  Makes us feel so helpless when one of our own is hurting.

I told you!  It's the B chord.  If you let it in, sooner or later 'you know who' shows up.   

In all seriousness, though.  It's worth thinking about.  I don't take internet tests just because of the potential for abuse of information, but thinking about the hereafter is worthwhile. 

- Zurf

Russell,

I think you misunderestimate my ability to imitate an ostrich! 

I'm still working on F, F#m, and Bm with any alacrity whatsoever.  Some day.  According to Deathday.com, I've got another 40 some years of practice to get it right before I kick the bucket.  Maybe one of these days I'll play a B.  Probably just after I grow the sixth and seventh fingers on my right hand...

You know, I was feeling pretty good about using an E-shaped barre chord for G in a song that has the chorus move back and forth between F#m and G, but those B's - they're just evil.  Face it.  I'm absolutely certain that if it weren't for those B chords, Satan wouldn't keep popping up on the right side of the screen asking about my eternal fate.  But there he is, every time I visit Chordie.  (Please tell me you guys get Satan too, please...)

- Zurf

Don't mind!?  Shoot, I'm honored!  Have fun with it.  You surely won't hurt my feelings. 

I haven't been on Songwriting for a while, so I'll go look for the one you mentioned.  I've been working on a song for a buddy of mine titled Bigger, Badder, Balder, Better.  We'll see how it goes.  My first real effort in this regard.   It will almost certainly be written in G and I can personally guarantee that it will not have a B chord in it.

- Zurf

I would avoid "Send In The Clowns".   

I learned "Forever and Ever Amen" to play to my wife on our 20th anniversary, and then also "Flesh and Blood", which fits because she sometimes gets jealous of my outdoors time and that song has the line 'Mother Nature is quite a lady, but you're the one I need.' 

Maybe one of those would fit, depending on your sister's musical tastes and singing ability. 

- Zurf

Classical guitar is extremely useful for other styles of music.  They don't use a lot of chords, but they use a huge number of arpeggios, which will help her to UNDERSTAND chords far better than just knowing their shapes.

Also, she'll learn to count, which is huge.  Knowing how to count out a passage is terribly useful for hearing rhythms and patterns. 

She'll also learn about variations on a theme, something that apparantly Lenny Kravitz never bothered to learn.  Variations on a theme makes music far more interesting and intrigueing. 

I'd say that she will be well served by a foundation in classical music. 

As far as classical guitar, she will learn proper posture and good left hand and right hand patterns and techniques.  All of which is directly applicable to any style of music she likes and chooses to play in the future.

- Zurf

Playing GUITAR, the first time I did it in front of people was last August at a fishing camp. I had been playing for about nine months of self-teaching time.  It was around the campfire and a few of the guys had brought their guitars.  I was used to playing on a nylon classical and was handed a steel string folk guitar.  I liked it, but I wasn't used to it, and they insisted on my playing a few songs.  I do not have songs memorized well, so I tried to use my book, but there was no place to rest it and my vision was a little weak in the twilight to read it from where it was.  I got out "My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys" with the singing help of one of the real musicians, then someone asked me to play "Forever and Ever Amen" that he had seen in my songbook earlier in the day.  So I gave it as passable a go as I could, and had a fellow who sings very well say "Well, Hoss, that ain't a bad rendition, but why don't you play it again and I'll sing it the way Randy done."  So I did, and it sounded way better and we were both smiling at the end, and I guess that's the point.  I was nervous as heck and ready to give up the guitar to its rightful owner, but he said, "Oh, you've got at least one more song in you. Keep going."  So sitting in West Virginia beside her second most famous river, I couldn't help but play, "Take Me Home Country Roads."  A couple of the wives or girlfriends of some of the guys that were already at the campfire showed up and recognized it right off somehow and the three of us sang it.  They harmonized real pretty and it actually got an ovation.  This just goes to show that a poor state of guitar playing can be overcome by attractive women who know how to sing. 

- Zurf