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Yep I hear this fesitval is a good one
but
and a big BUT

I will be at the Isle of Jura folk festival which is on the same time. I always go to Jura! the day/year I get bored wit hit I will try Ullapool.

ken

Hi lena

Without a doubt it is the stones that do this far better.
Subo has a good voice but is over rated a lot.

for me hands down the stones get this,

Also guns 'n' roses do a version of this too. not got time to chuck a link up as I am already late to take my boy to his footy game.

Ken

I got my son an electric guitar last year for crimbo. It kept him occupied for about 3 days on and off. It is now back in its box. He was interested but I think they think they can just pick it up and do it.

I would say Zurf's advice is good, hold on to it. I am keeping this guitar for when my son says " I want to learn"

Even when kids seem to be really interested they lose it very quickly when they have to actually learn something.
My daughter is a different story, she is learning the violin and the flute and can play a wee bit on the keyboard and she is only 9

Ken

ahhhhh
Ardverikie estate, near Loch Laggan.

It is more nearer Laggan village. I dont know why loch laggan is called so when it is about 9 miles down the road.
This is the area where the spey dam is. Also the are where i go up to go to the cottages when i vanish wit hthe wife and kids. My firend has a 2 cottages joined together up there. It is great to get away.
But ye dont get much midgies up the hills there as there is always a breeze blowing.

Also, if anyone watches "monarch of the glen" and is intersted, on the entrance to the cottages where i go we got the sign for " glenbogle wildlife park" on the gate to the cottage.

I also got tons of pics from all over that area, some are on my face book and some on flickr and some stashed in my PC.
Fishing is good up there too as no one is allowed to fish on the river passed the dam apart fro mresidents so guess what..... I can!!

KEn

Lena,
Writing yuor thoughts down whether they be poems or songs can be a very good way of getting through things I have found in the past.
Also when something happens in life like love,death,tragedy etc it is always the best time to sit down and spew your feelings onto paper/computer, when all the strong emmotions are there and fresh in your mind.

Ken

a poem?

good advice from both. I do both.
I have one of my guitars on a floor stand away from any source of heat including direct sunlight. And I have one hanging on my wall with a wall hanger. There has been a debate about these wall hangers before about how they can twist the neck but I have not had any problem in the 5 or 6 years I have had this hanging.

I have a few other guitars that are upstairs. one is in it's travel bag and in a cupboard. I play this a lot when i go out in the hills and it has never been damaged by storage in there.
Another one I have in another cupboard on the top shelf lying flat gather dust. Amazing how much dust it can gather up there when ye think nothing goes in or out for ages.
My mandolin is also on a floor stand.
Since I mostly play my 6 string lorenzo and the mandolin I have them handy to pick up whenever I want.

All my storage will change in a few months hopefully as I have this house on the market and going for another house with an extra room that I plan to turn into a music room. My wife thinks it will be an excerise/leisure/computer/drying room. And she will probably win but my instruments, all 25 of them will be there are ready to play...I hope

Ken

Zurf,
i wouldnt publish any emails I dont think.
I am sorry if I come across here as being negative towards your beliefs, I totaly respect everyone's beliefs. whatever anyone wants to believe in is fine with me, even if I do question it sometimes.

It is hard not to get into politics and religion sometimes, like here just now.
So many have different opinions and some that have really strong opinions will not stop at agreeing to disagree. I can do that but some cannot. I know you can too. But since it is public it leaves it open for folk that cannot to speak their mind if they see an opporunity to do so, and I would not say this is a bad thing. It is called freedom of speech, something we can have in a lot of places in the world and not so much in other places.

If everyone just listened to everything I said and obeyed everything I say then there would be no problems anywhere yes twas a joke!! ( for those that thought they would take me seriously there)

I even come across in some other forums as anti american but I really am not, I just question a lot of things they say. I would question the french a lot too if I could understand them.
I see all humans on this planet as equal, I try not to differentiate anyone even though that is hard not to.

and to tubatooter.
your post me me laugh at the  " how long was I out for".

i would hate to see this turn into a political thread because I just would not be able to keep quiet
BUT, even if Bin Laden was caught terrorism will not stop there. Even when Binny man dies terrorists will "fight" on in his name.
The extremists are turning the world into what it is today.....an unsafe planet to live.

now since we cannot have political arguments here  i shall go elsewhere and type my thoughts on this politically  

KEn

wave,
good on ye for highjacking an old unrelated thread,
not helping you

james well done for jumping the bandwagon on waves' thread highjacking but since it is related.

go to profile,
change password

tarrra it is done

Ken

well after listening topunk ( slf, pistols, exploited, alarm,skids, undertones ) in the eighties, then a lot of heavy rock ( acdc, iron maiden, led zep, sabbath) I got to hear Pink Floyd's The wall, final cut, medal, piper at the gates of dawn in about 1984. All of these made a really big impact on me, especially "piper at the gates of dawn". It made me think there was more to music than just drums, guitar, bass and vocals and a bit of synth, it made me realise the diversity in music that one band could make and there was no rules to music,
then I got heavily introduced to Syd barrett's solo albums, all of his songs inspired my songwriting when i started writing my own stuff.

So out of all these if I had to say ONE album it would be

Syd Barrett;'s

" the madcap laughs"

if you ever hear it you will agree the singing is downright awful ( but I love it) and the music is a bit....well unprepared but the structure of all the songs are masterpieces.
For hearing 3 syd barrett songs pretty much the way he played and sang them I do three songs on one video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_X5tQcML_A

what a great reason to plug myself ,lol

Ken