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Welcome to Chordie, Wen!

Dino - we each did our own make up!  Jim tattoos and airbrushes, so he's not too shabby with artsy fartsy things himself. 

Thanks for the compliments guys.  We had a blast, and won "best couple" in the costume contest at my Dad's house. 

DE - I read a LOT myself!  I tend to stay away from the history books, although I find the older I get the more I enjoy learning about history!

My kids are having Breakfast with my Dad at school today.  Big big ceremony for the Veterans. 

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE

Grandpa - Cold War - Airforce
Grandpa - Cold war - Army
Dad - Vietnam - Airforce
Husband - Gulf War - Navy / Marine Corp. Unit
Brother in Law - Currently Serving Army Reservist

NELA, you're missing out on a really cool pic if you can't see that!  Flester, that's COOL!  So you're talking about a pickguard just to clean up the look?  Since the fingerboard is black, I think I'd stick with black for continuity, tho tortoise-shell would look good too and maybe combine the white/cream/black of the individual pieces together and just meld the whole look.  Neat "guitar"!

Happy NGD Roger!!!

Well well well... HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHORDIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hmmm... I like a lot of folk music, probably because that's what I was raised on, it's what Dad played on his guitar and what I learned to sing when I was introduced to music as a kid.  Yuppers, "Tom Dooley", "Rock Island Line", "If I had a hammer": all songs I was singing at 5 years old (and I'd like to note, I know these songs the way my Dad did them, not the way they were recorded.  When I hear recordings, I'm all "ewwwww, that's not right!"  So as a side, I'd like to say, MAKE IT YOUR OWN is a BIGGIE with me).  As time went on, there was Grandma playing Elvis on her already outdated 8 Tracks and Dad introduced me to "the longest song in history" (at the time, unless he was mistaken) - American Pie - and I won't ever forget the day we sat in his truck in the garage listening until the song was over.  As time went on I became a teen and listened to some of the more popular pop music while enjoying a bit of the dark side of lighter metal (insert Metallica, Poison, etc. 80's-90's hair bands and some earlier stuff I had missed before I learned how to stand RIGHT IN FRONT OF A SPEAKER and leave unable to hear).  I also did a lot of singing in school, so there was the whole "misc. musicals" time frame and even Italian Arias.  I can honestly say that I like a very VERY diverse amount of music!  I have introduced my kids to Phantom of the Opera sound tracks, Grease sound tracks AND "Tom Dooley" while I tend to let Daddy teach them about Metal and they choose all of this as well as current Pop on the radio. 

My go to music is folk, and a lot of Country because when it comes down to it, that's the stuff that I enjoy singing and other people enjoy hearing (if people liked hearing Italian Arias more, I might figure out how to play more classical style guitar, but no one wants to hear it and I'm happy strumming).  I still sing and enjoy it all though.... just some more privately than the rest! 

NO RAP... minimal amounts of hip-hop I can do though.  Oh, and when we are stressed... the littlest one and I like a little classical to relax us (along the lines of Beethoven), or "wedding music" as she calls it.

Rickyjack..... another imaginary dill pickle for your amazing reporting this morning!  Looks like you were finishing up the reporting as I was getting on here, dressed in my Tutu to smack the Spam Trolls with my polo mallet (as Doug suggests I might).

Actually, I'm wearing an old Jagermeister T-shirt and sweat pants, drinking my coffee from my Martin mug and having a cigarette.  Seriously, there's a bit to banning, seeing which ones I can delete and which I have to leave for others (and report so they can pick them off), so it's nice when they're all reported before I get here.  Then, I actually get a few minutes to enjoy the site rather than spend all my time reporting AND banning.    THANK YOU SIR!

Mr. and Mrs. NELA - CONGRATS!  44 - You're an inspiration! 

Nice looking guitar!  Good deal too!  I just looked, for the sake of looking, and GC has a used one for $230 ( doubt in as good a shape as "yours").  Consider yourself a true wheeler dealer!    I hope he enjoys it and sticks with it.  When money's tight, there's nothing better than having a guitar as a friend!

I believe that functionality is disabled by Admin, to help combat spam.    Sorry!  You could create a facebook page open to the public for your band/self like I did, and there's a youtube app for it so people can just go there to view.  Sadly, the FB app only works on computers though to my knowledge.

Glad I could help!  Sounds like you know a little about reading music, and that is awesome!  The downside is when just learning to strum, we over think it a little.  Down the road you will start looking into how chords are created, looking into the music theory thread, and suddenly realize (like myself) that you don't know near enough.  Lol!  So, off topic, where does your music reading come from?  Singing? Plunking tunes out on a keyboard? Played saxaphone once upon a time?    Personally, I played the clarinet once upon a time, Grandma taught me a little about chords on her electric Organ, I learned to plunk notes on a keyboard/piano, and was BIG into choir and took voice lessons when I was in school.  And of course, my daddy always played his guitar and tried to teach me melodies and harmonies.  Getting close to 40 in a few years, so all that knowledge was just like, ahhhh, feels like three years ago.  Lol!!!