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I've bought a lot of gear, strings, books, harmonicas and guitars from them over the years. There's three guitars in my office right now that I bought from them.  As important to them as the guitars, almost all my accessories and strings and such come from them.  They get a better margin on that stuff.  I think it's a small price to pay to pay a little more to them for low-cost items over time and have someone who's ready and eager to help a regular customer than to get everything from the web and talk to strangers when I'm in need of help.  They've always taken good care of me there (though they gave my sister dirty looks when she bought banjo strings).

Not yet.  Why don't we give it a try?  Skype works really well, I think.  The limitation seems to be with bandwidth more than software.  Then again, the more efficient the software at preparing the signal, the less bandwidth is needed. 

Anyway, free is my favorite price.  We rarely have more than nine on.  I think we went with Skype initially because we anticipated more people at once. 

I recently had to reactivate my Google+ account, so I'm willing to give it a go.  Russell and I tried to use it once, but that was pretty funny having us two trying to figure out how to do a conference call on Google while pinging one another on Facebook "No, no, try this..."  "OK, I've got that now what?"  "How am I supposed to know?  Oh, hang on. There's a button."  And so on for most of a Saturday afternoon and we never did make it work. 

- Zurf

I noticed one time at the dentist that when one is under influence of laughing gas that all music, conversation, and ambient noise combines to sound exactly like Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon.  I decided right then that I rather liked laughing gas.

Another recommended perfect album is Live! by James Taylor.  He put together a super kick-butt band where everyone was at the absolute top of their game (granted that some of them had been at the top of their game for twenty years at that time and continued at the top of their game for another twenty) and then they went and had some fun playing JT songs. 

- Zurf

I oil my fretboard when I change strings because I like the way it makes it look.  It's not something that you have to do for the guitar's sake.  I do the remove all strings, clean and oil, replace strings approach too. 

- Zurf

Sounds delicious. 

I usually have too hard of a time finding papers that large enough to roll them.

I saw Dirty Ed and Mekidsmom using those. They both loved it, so I bought my own and agree with their and your assessment.

This may belong in the accessories forum.

Sure. In the first instance you gave, that is exchanging different voicings of the same chord. That keeps things interesting for the player as well as the listener.

I also sub chords too, especially when I am purposefully changinb the style or sound of the song but most often when the original artist is a mutant with superhuman guitar abilities.

Congratulations.

I got to meet Anson Funderburg, Sam Myers, and Matt "Guitar" Murphy on my 30th birthday.  They dropped by my table at a restaurant to chat with my companion, and he introduced them.  I was introduced to Anson Funderburg and Matt "Guitar" Murphy as a harp player, and to Sam Myers as a bass man.  "Baby Blues Man" was the name I was given.  I should have used that as my screen name here, but people actually call me Zurf. 

- Zurf

I think it's a little unclear about which of those two owns the other.

Trigger

Another band making some growth - getting some decent amount of airtime on Pandora.  Round Hill, the eponymous town of the song linked below, is about ten or twelve miles from here.  I can ride my bike there without too much pain.  Quality of the recording is not too good.  It was probably taken at a pub on an iphone after the phone's owner had had a few. 

http://www.greatunknowns.com/

Best known song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPZm1nEJ3d4