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Almost worth it.  Now if I can convince my cousin (the Country band drummer) to move from Nashville to Cincinnatti...

He really is a marketing exec.  I don't know what his title is.  Even though he is successful in business, his passion is country music, so my part-time marketing VP was only a mild exaggeration.

SouthPaw - been a pro for 25 years, huh?  Only five more and you can be an 'overnight' success. 

- Zurf

Don't be so hard on yourself.  I probably see two or three questions a week more daft than that.

- Zurf

There's some good ones on there, but there ought to be a rule that no band or artist can be mentioned twice.  Unfair rule, I know, but I often don't care about 'fair'.  In fact, I don't think that 'fair' exists in any real context.  It's just too subjective. 

Anyway, there are a few I'd like to see on there, but I don't know which ones I'd bumpt to put them in. 

Hangin' Around - Counting Crows.  It's an Alternative Rock or Adult Contemporary or whatever genre they get classified into throwback to what rock is all about.  Nothing.  Nothing at all.  The lead in scream, drum banging, and riff take you right into that land of rock and roll nothingness.

Steppinwolf - Magic Carpet Ride.  Or Born to Be Wild.  One or the other ought to be on the list.  They're both about the other thing that rock is about.  Sex. 

I'm a little surprised that Neil Young didn't appear anywhere on there.  Signs from Buffalo Springfield or estpecially Down By The River or Cinnamon Girl Rust Never Sleeps album.  those are great.  Man, I remember seeing him jamm Down By The River with Duck Dunn on bass and playing with CSNY in a recent tour.  Maybe about ten years ago.  Anyway, David Crosby just gave up trying to play along, Graham Nash was keeping up on keyboards but was just playing root chords, no riffing.  Steven Stills set down his SG and I thought he was out for the count, but a roadie handed him a Gibson Flying V and MAN did he tear it up.  Neil Young had his archtop Gretsch (I think) with the whammy bar and the two of them were smoking hot.  Duck Dunn never lost pace, stayed in the box, and set one heck of a foundation for those guys.  Anyway, I'm biased to that song.

Green Onions - Duck Dunn on bass and "The Colenol" Steve Cropper on rhythm guitar.  Yeah, yeah.  It's a keyboard song.  You can't tell me that you aren't listening to the rhythm guitar work when you hear Green Onions by Booker T and the MGs. 

Blue Skies, the Willie Nelson version off of Stardust.  Holy schmoley, that is some seriously good work.  You can call it jazz if you want to, but that is some seriously rocking jazz then. 

It's mellow, but it's famous, James Taylor's intro to Carolina on My Mind or Country Road.  You know it and you love it.  Even if you don't want to.  (I do, that sissified 70's folk/pop is what I'm all about). 

Jim Croce - Rapid Roy.  It's been duplicated and triplicated and quadrulicated all over the place, but so far as I know, Jim Croce is the one who took that race day trumpet call and made a guitar lick out of it. 

Stevie Ray Vaughan's version of Little Wing.  I like it better than Jimi Hendrix' version. 

While we're on Jimi Hendrix, Crosstown Traffic.  He had lick after incredible lick, but that lick at the beginning of Crosstown Traffic has me reaching for the volume knob every time. 

Just too many bands not mentioned, well OK Jimi Hendrix was mentioned, that needed some kind of recognition that multiple visits by the multiple bands - well, just doesn't seem "fair."   

There is something about that water for certain.  Wish I could be on it a whole lot more often.  What's in it are beaucoup smallmouth bass of generous size and irritable disposition. 

- Zurf

You aren't me.  I said I have a rule for myself.  It's understood that you have to make decisions for yourself based on your own circumstances. 

- Zurf

I'm not sure what you're asking.  If you're asking whether the prices on those products are fair, it's really hard to say.  Talking American dollars, you can get a tuner that'll do the job without bells or whistles for $15, a capo for $20,  and I don't know of any guitars that are $1.  You can get a beginner Yamaha F310 or FG300 for under $200, probably a lot less.  Put some good strings (like Elixir lights) on for $15. 

$34.50 for a capo must be right good capo.  I spent $80 for my first chromatic tuner and got the one I use the most now free with an amp. 

If you're shopping on-line rather than a local music store, try Music123 or MusiciansFriend in that order.  If you can buy local, it's worthwhile to do so in many ways. 

- Zurf

Welcome to GuitarElmo and RedhatMike.   This site is good therapy for me, and I guarantee that you will both learn a great deal if you pay attention and ask real nice. 

- Zurf

I'm a management consultant that specializes in U.S. government contracting regulations.  Dry as a bone, but I enjoy it.  I especially love planning, developing, and presenting training courses. 

My hat is off to PatrickJacques and Guitarpix.  I've had my hand in that line of work and it's hard.  Satisfying at the end of the day to look back and see how much you've accomplished, but both challenging of mind and hard on the body.  I blame an incident driving nails into cinder block with a 24oz framing hammer for my inability to get a decent bridge for a B chord.  One of those incidents where I busted up the ring finger badly enough that when the X-ray tech asked why I didn't tell him my middle finger was broken too I answered honestly it was because I didn't know.  Compared to the ring finger, it didn't hurt at all. 

- Big D

Well hot diggity dog!  Many congratulations and well wishes to them and to you, Old Doll. 

- Zurf

All the high end guitars are well built from good quality wood.  What you need is a guitar that suits your playing style, your preferred genre, fits your hands, and sounds good to your ear. 

Buy a Gibson, a Taylor, a Martin, or several other high end guitars, and you're going to get a good guitar no matter what.  BUT you may not get a guitar SUITED TO YOUR PURPOSE.  This is why folks are suggesting only to purchase a guitar after playing it.  And play it the way you play it!  Don't go in and strum a few times on something that you intend to fingerpick.  Go and PLAY IT.  If the dealer is afraid you'll scratch it or something, find a different dealer.  OK to take precautions against scratching of course, use a blanket or an apron to prevent buckles or needless scratching, but you need to be able to play the instrument in your style and on your terms.

- Zurf