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Indeed Stiff Little Fingers, but isn't or wasn't there also a band called "Little Feet?"

Hi Tibernius, I wrote some topics about:
- acoustic and affordable good guitars.
- electric guitars: same
I included price ranges, you should check these topics. So one of the electric guitars was an epiphone sg classic versus an epiphone sg, classic 199€ the other 299€. I would go for the cheaper, I played it and (it is subjective) preferred the 199€.
I have probably 25 guitars now, it started stupid, and I had some real luck with my "collection", but since on chordie, I have all the time, I am searching for real good low priced guitars.

I told already that I had the honor to be MD on one of the biggests popfestivals in Europe.
I was "backstage" only responsable for the "bands". I saw and learned a lot there. I can tell that I have seen an evolution from 1982 ----> 1996, I stopped and left the unpaid job to another doctor.
In the beginning, there was a lot more drugs, marihuana and hash and alcohol, in 1996 the groups were more clean, and they ordered less, and they used vitamines, fruit...
I had a real close contact with even the biggest names. I saw that the groups, or singers, in fact all celebrities like Lou Reed, Bob Dylan, The Cure, the Jam... were really nice guys, but the "sharks"were horrible. Those people, like roadmanagers and others found themselves more important than the musicians. Thanks to my real nice conversations, I was asked to come on stage, Neil Young asked me that I was on stage, behind curtains and not really visible. I swear that as a little shrimp with Neil Young, The Cure, Foo Fighters and others, you get a "kick" seeing the crowd singing using sigaret lighters was abnormal fantastic, it is a feeling that you can compare with the feeling the artists get on stage. Backstage, rule number one was: DO NOT DISTURB THE MUSICIANS, I had the luck that they invited me in their trailer, using a medical advise or treatment. Dave Grohl invited me to come over end of august 1996. I had all his private numbers, I could sleep there and he planned almost everything, like going in a studio, where REM recorded a new album, play together, and I phoned him that I couldn't come. THE BIGGEST MISTAKE I probably ever made in my life. We kept in touch for a few months and as it is like always, those things end. I still regret this "miracle". I still remember what he toldme about Cobain and he HATED Courtney Love, accusing her indirectly as the reason why Cobain died (Not believing in suicide, as alot of people did). This was a once in a lifetime offer, I was just afraid to go back on Holiday, only 3 months after travelling in South Africa), to loose a lot of patients. About the Smiths, I don't like their music, same thing for the Cure. I was on stage whenthey performed and I saw at least 500 look a likes.
Maybe I should try to listen better to the Cure, Smiths BUT THEY ARE SO DARK.
Moddish you write what I think, one music style influence other groups, who influence again others, but I have it difficult to understand how music styles are born.
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GITAARDOCPHIL SAIS: THERE IS NO CURE FOR THE SMITHS

Upyerkilt, I agree. Isn't it strange that we are looking everyday in the mirror and we don't see that we are getting older and ugly. While in front of the mirror, I am still that very good looking 20 tears old man, TAKE A PICTURE and there goes your "nice looking boy" seeing a fatter, man, with grey hair or being bold.
Same with singing: if you hear yourself on tape, you can't believe that this is you speaking or singing. It is caused by the fact that when you talk, sing, it is absorbed, and your skull (the natural cavities, like the nose, the sinusses reflecting your voice inside your head. This is medical again, and I have to stop with all medical things because it is really painful for me to go back in time.

Zurf, I read that you were a musician as a kid. One thing I don't get is the fact you wrote that it's more difficult now. But this is my question: what do you mean by difficult. Is it the fact that you "forgot" what you played? Even now, in my situation, I play a few chords, and suddenly THERE IT IS a song.
I have to go to the bathroom (there is also 1 guitar) so better picking up the telephone and 30 minutes blablabla, I want to play that, still subjective, nice song, and I am unable to find it back.
This is a painful thing, or I didn't notice until now, that song wasn't good and I forgot how to play.
About missing your guitar, I have a lot of them, take my stratocaster US made 1964, too expensive and the prices are going up, following the vintage book, with prices, 2005: 10.000$
2006: 15.000$ and 2007: 20.000$. I prefer more to play on my PRS guitars, and if I should sell the Fender, I can buy 2 really, even better guitars using 5000$ for a strat and 5000$ for a tele, and 10.000$ on my bank account, I CAN'T do it, and the prices of vintage guitars are better than buying a share from a big concern, but 20.000$ for a piece of wood with strings I have one strange question: who started things like this? I know that in 1980, a Gibson LP Standard 1959, was not expensive, so who determines the value. I was told that guitar guru's like Gruhn are responsable.

mrj, I am a guitar lover and was able to build a nice collection during the years.
I don't have a Taylor, a Collings, a Breedlove, but I do have a Gibson hummingbird, a Dove, a SJ-200 Montana gold and a bunch of Martin's like HD-28 and the D-45V. Gibson dreadnoughts are very good, but I prefer the SJ-200, deep warm sound, and on the other hand, one of the best is my HD-28, blowing away all other dreadnoughts, and very nice sound.
I visited the rainsong website, I was desperately looking on youtube and myspace to HEAR someone playing a "rainsong" I did find a lot of rainsongs, but all LED ZEPPELIN.

I am still regretting that I didn't continue to play piano, being 10 years old. My "BIGGEST" problem is BEING IMPATIENT, and speaking of that, I noticed that it was already there when I was young, everything has to go fast. Visiting a museum, like the "LOUVRE" it takes me 1-2 hours, but if you compare my visit with a person who was there 4 hours, I know more than he does. This is a real problem sometimes, being busy with 3 different things at the same time. I see it more as a curse than a good thing. Same things on holiday: I am able to do more on 10 days than a tourist is doing in 20 days, speaking of the same trip.
But piano? I can play some notes, but I prefer the guitar. I also think that when you look for songs, you can spot songs written on piano versus written on guitar.
An instrument I adore is a "harpsichord" DO THEY STILL MAKE THEM? Not in a hi-tech keyboard.