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Hey WbH ,
   I've heard of guitarists being electricuted ... I also remember when my little brother , my brother in law , and I used to jam ... My brother in law played through a vintage Gibson Mercury amp and plugged his mic into it also , and my little brother was always flipping the polarity switch on that amp so that my brother in law would get a jolt when he touched his face on the mic ... Can't believe my brother in law kept letting him get away with it ... I would have kicked his butt all over the place , L O L ...
                   Jerry

Hey Guys ,
   Bungee jumping is something I don't get either , although loving the water as I do , I've always wanted to try bungee water skiing ... I came up with this idea about twelve years ago and have'nt put it into practice yet , might just be the biggest thing since my ski chair incident that almost took my life , L O L ....
   I used to get a big kick out of rappelling from a hovering chopper , especially when it seemed to scare the beejeebees out of the paratroopers that I was drilling with , L O L ..... Oh the good old days ....
                     Jerry

Whoa ,
  I'm gettin scared , because I remember all these things , including selling " Grit " and the teacher either throwing stuff at you or wapping you up side the head with a textbook if you were napping .. Seems like that happened to me quite a lot ...L O L ... Of coarse that was back when being sent to the principal's office did'nt just mean you were going to get a " talking to " ...
   Hey Cam , I'll trade you my steely for that cats eye ,L O L ....
   Does anyone else remember pulling into a gas station and having four guys come running out to practically service your car while THEY put the gas in ??? I was up in north central North Dakota last weekend to play a party and pulled into a little gas station in Devils Lake to fill up , and before I could get out to pump the gas this guy was at my window ... It's the measure of our times that I felt very uncomfortable having someone else pump gas for me and actually weirded me out when he started washing my windows and asked to check under the hood , L O L ....
   If anyone wants a trip down memory lane , listen to an old song by the Statlers called " Do you Remember These " .......
                      Jerry

About twenty years ago , when I sold my second house , I had three big boxes of vinyl stored by themselves in a basement storage area and when we moved I just completely gapped it and never even thought of them untill six months later ... I knew I could'nt very well go back and ask the new owners for them so they got a bonus in the deal .. Just hope they realize what they got , L O L ..
   Have'nt had a turtable for years , but last summer at a flea market , I ran across a commercial Califone model  1455K phonograph in perfect condition and bought it for fifteen bucks , since then I've been building up my vinyl again ... This phonograph is nice because it has the strobe so you can be sure it's running at correct speed ... The thing is also made to be carried and tough enough to be tossed around , although I don't , L O L ....
                   Jerry

Interesting thread Doc ...
  I never cared much for the Doors or their music ... Has anyone ever read the book about them ?? I'd sooner flush the money down the toilet than buy it , but a friend of my did , and told me about some of what's in it and I'll tell you what , Morrison was one sick dude ...
  As for the beatles recordings being played backward to convey dark messages , I heard a vintage radio interview with John Lennon last summer and in it he was asked about that , and he said , " what kind of mind does it take to think of playing a recording backwards , in fact how on earth do you play a record backwards anyway ?? " I thought that was pretty funny , L O L ........
   As far as Zeppelin and Stairway to Heaven goes , if I ever hear that tune again , it will be too soon ... When I had my music store , guys would always come in , pick out a guitar and start playing that like I was gonna be really impressed ... Was'nt long before I put up a sign that read " No Stairway to Heaven "...L O L .
                    Jerry

Hey wlbaye ,
   L O L , it does , does'nt it ?? But you know what ?? A lot of times I do the same thing because I can lurk and not even log in unless there's something that I want to ( or think that I need to ) respond to , L O L ... Just another thing that I love about this place besides all the great people on here ..... So I say , lurk away , L O L .....
                   Jerry

Hey Guys ,
   I had a Harmony Rocket (335 copy ) at one time years ago and that ax was sweeeet ... Don't know what possesed me to sell it ...
   I love Guild guitars , I have three and in '99 I decided to buy a brand new Guild F65CE ... Top of the line accoustic electric , this guitar is loaded , fishman dual source preamp and electronics ... Enough mother of pearl and abalone inlays to put the species on the endangered list , plays like a million bucks and ever since the first time I played it at a jam , I have been unhappy with the sound of the thing ... Now I just avoid playing it and it's a shame ...
People always tell me how pretty it is , and I know that tone is very subjective but it's just not what my other Guilds are ........
                     Jerry

Hi Guys ,
   There is something I'd like to say on this subject and I hope that any lurkers or newbies will see it and realize that this site is not like most ... Before finding Chordie , I signed up on more than a few sites like it and found that on most of these sites there are a small number of oldtimers that just seem to hang out waiting for a new person to sign up and post something so they can come down on them like a ton of bricks like they're not wanted ... Does'nt take long before you're gun shy and don't want to even ask a question ... When I first found Chordie , I just cruised the forums and kept my mouth shut for a good couple of months before posting anything here ... (Amazing how much there is to be learned by just doing that and not participating ...)
When I did finally post something , I was amazed at the warm welcome I received ... I knew I had found a place for me ... 
    Chordie is unlike any of those other sites , and it's the good folks here that make it what it is ... So any of you folks out there that have had bad experiences on other sites , just give Chordie a try because you're wanted here , and you may just have something to offer the rest of us ...... Thanks ...
                   Jerry

Hi DevilCat ,
   Welcome to Chordie !!
   This is a funny subject for me because I know two long time players who still use that " one finger at a time " method when going to some chords ... They're fast enough and it works for them ... The only beef I have with it is that if I'm just jamming along , I'll just follow what the other player is doing and when they do it this way sometimes it's hard to see where they're going untill the actually get there and of course they're just getting there in the nick of time themselves , so it's hard to follow along , L O L .... It has worked for them all these years ... Having said that though , there's a lot of good advice here , hope someone has helped ....
                   Jerry