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Dear KILT, I love your nick, I am living as you know in Belgium, here you can say soccer = sucker.
We have great players, but they are "doomed".
About football, trainers, they have 2 years a big success, and suddenly, even with all players supporting him, they fire the coach, in stead of firing the team. I am not really following football, not meaning that I am not interested. At this moment we love tennis more than ever, having one of the best female player JUSTINE HENIN. She is breaking record after record, like she has now the record of having earned the greatest sum (price money) ever in 1 season. AND SHE IS FREE!!!! Should I give it a try? I hope the SCOTTISH win this (score 2-1).

I think I've heard about that man

I SUGGEST TO GO TO MY TOPIC.
I wrote a lot about what can happen by playing to long.
And about 1/2 hour practising, let's say maximum; 1 hour BUT, like always, the more you work, the more skills you get. I am comparing this with the medical world, there is fenomenal big difference between studies (here it takes 7 years) and practising. YOU ARE ALONE, because you can't afford it to work with 3-4 medical docs. Here in Belgium: the so called "collegiality"is far from what it means.Doctors are all selfish, and if you are successful they throw with mud. I certainly walked in the narrow lines, people often called me Rock Doc, I took my time,... I worked more than 14 hours everyday, even after my car crash: I HAD TO STOP, because I was exhausted.
If you feel good 100%: go for it, the only condition: "listen to your body". Like starting guitar players can have some nasty problems, just 1 example, the tips of your fingers. I have seen players with, this extreme, blisters on the tops of the fingers. I suggest you to start about 30 minutes, and you see what I mean, fingertips are painful, that goes away, but DO NOT TRESPASS the PAIN LIMIT, and it sounds maybe crazy, sit and play. I can' play anymore standing there on stage, I have to sit. Just try a GIBSON LES PAUL and you will feel what I mean

Yes boxer, I am glad you can laugh. But as told, you do see a lot of covers on both sites.
And finally, where is the line between legal and illegal, if I cover an existing song, or better some one else, and I did see many times that the cover is very popular, and if I am not wrong, can people download it.
I am convinced that copyrights are different in different countries. I think here, they last for 70 years, and what happens, the Netherlands are now using songs from the 30ies (about that I am not 100% sure, I read it somewhere). And even worse, when can you speak about violation of copyrights? I believe here, you can "sample" a piece if the time is less than 15 seconds.

I do agree but only for 25%. I have been in the GIBSON plant in Memphis, I saw the production process of hollow bodies. About quality: YES, they want to put on the market only the best. It looks a lot on throwing away money, because they "destroy" 25% of these guitars. I was a little bit angry when I heard about this, because they can bring them on the market, as a lot cheaper model, like B-GIBSON. I just know that you will find real good guitars, other brands in stead of the Holy Trinity GIBSON, FENDER, PRS. Gibson does have low(er) budget guitars, not using lacquer like a Gibson SG Faded. I compare these guitars with a car: BMW, MERCEDES, LEXUS, they are expensive too, it is maybe a stupid fact to compare a Gibson with a Mercedes, but they have one thing in common, producing a very good product. I have a lot of guitars, and I will only take the acoustics, you can't beat them. About the price, if you have seen what I saw, it is amazing, the quality of these hollow bodies. I have 1 hollow body: an Epiphone Sheraton. I am also asking why they are expensive. Just know that if you transfer the production to China, with a few US people to check the process, the price will drop, and Chinese People are delivering fantastic work. They work real hard and good, certainly compared to countries like India.
I am a PRS fan, and they are offering you a better choice: an expensive US model or a lot less expensive Korean model: PRS SE, have one, and the sound is marvellous.
If you look around on chordie, I worked very hard on some topics, like cheaper but decent guitars. The problem is indeed that you pay a lot of money, but it is even 100 times worse, if you see vintage prices, like a fender stratocaster 1964, going up more than 20.000$ and this just for a piece of wood with strings.

Well boxer, this is an unexpected question. As far as I think, a classic song is a strophe followed by a refrain and another strophe. I don't know why, but I think they use chords, used when writing a song. I love to play, and sometimes you play chords, not really fitting when used in a refrain.
My point is, you can use some of these extra chords, to improve your song, the transition from a strophe to a refrain isn't that what you really wanted, and (this is subjective) I use them sometimes, the chords, to fill in an empty space, with the mean goal, to have a better song.
A beautiful example is  NEVER MY LOVE, by the ASSOCIATION. They start with a strophe, followed by a refrain, here in this case Never my love, never my love, and than you have a bridge, not so easy, but if you play the song Strophe Refrain Strophe alone, something is missing and take the bridge playing it for the second time, you can really feel how nice a song can be using a bridge.
There are CHORDIANS who are MUCH BETTER in explaining this topic. What I wrote was just my impression

Hell, Michigan
Toad Suck, Arkansas
Wetwang, England
BUT THE BEST NAME I FOUND IS:
In Austria (Schwarzenegger should probably know this) there is a place named FUCKING (THIS IS NOT ON PURPOSE, OR PROFANITY, but it is true.
About names: are there families in the UK or USA having the name "HEAD"? If so please don't name your son....
Their is a place called Funnybone in Canada
In Maryland, there is a place called ACCIDENT, in ITALY, Bastardo. World's End in the UK. Again in Canada, a place called dildo. It is a pity we have also real fantastic names, but it is impossible to translate or understand. Like You Bet (California), a city too.
I wrote years ago a song using all kinds of EXISTING names, and I had very funny lyrics, AND all names of collueges in my village were in that song. I didn't forget it entirely, but it is again impossible to understand the original lyrics, and translating is useless.
I noticed a lot of cities having the same name in the USA, like Springfield.

Your answer is brilliant, and I was thinking already about building an own guitar.
Besides the music stores, you can hear a lot of the guitars on myspace or youtube, or like gibson: on their website, in the humbucker topic.
About plug and play, I did this for my first electric, in fact second, having a fantastic nice Gibson Studio, always detuning. I went to a store, asked for a Gibson Les Paul Standard, For a Fender in a certain price category, like that Les Paul Standard, and a new model PRS, almost nobody knew what a PRS was. It was like this:
- sitting on an amp, to feel the vibrations, and never change the amp position.
- using the 3 brands and 2 extra guitars.
- It felt right using PRS, more than the other guitars.
It still took me some time, but I traded my Les Paul Studio (I mean they took my Studio), I won quite some money on this one, I paid it to a friend, head of the import section at the customs, I paid it $400 and got 900$ for it 1 year later, and this is more or less where it all started: my PRS mania.

Hello Dolly, I am not Louis Armstrong, but you are so right. A lot of places have crazy names, like the one in Italy. Here in Belgium we have also some places. But about Family names, you can have real freaky situations. Like the Family name PUT, in Dutch NO PROBLEM. it is a pitt (?) but if you have that name pronounced in French, or you live in the French part, it is pronounced different and it means "prosti...So is the Russian president, named PUTIN, in French, see PUT.