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Hey Cam,  Don't know how much karma I can send your way but you are welcome to what I have.
                 I hope the bluedevils  do you good.           Mike

Hey Deadstring, very nice, very soothing and very nice cabin. I'm a rustic kinda guy.        Mike

Hi all,
    Yep-got the bug bad Pix! Got a boat last year and since we can get to a launch and be in the water
    in about 15 min. it can be hard to resist. Z-- I don't think you would like the winters here even tho
    for the most part they are mild but the summers are very nice. We caught alot of fish that day.
    Thru back shakers(fish too small to keep legally) and keepers, waiting for the "biggin". BTW.....
    they can also be too big to keep. Lots of do's and don'ts in the fishing regs.

     Yea Mek, those "giant" ones are very dangerous!! LOL Lucky these are bottom feeders. They do have
     sharp spine-like sides tho. Hope you get a chance to fish more with your family, it's good for you, and
     thanks again for the help.

     I grew up in the Ohio Valley area and western Pa.,Warren, and others, Dad worked constuction so we
     moved alot. Rememer fishing for "cats" in the Ohio River. Couldn't eat them because of the polution.
     Zurf--- I remember fishing the spill-way of the Kinzua Dam. Dad caught a nice musky there. That was
     so long ago. Wonder how the fishing is there now? Really miss cat fishing. If I go up river from here
     around 40 miles there are cats to be caught. This years salmon run is suppose to be the best run since
     the 1940's. Awsome! Hope they can figuere out how to keep the sea lions from ruining the run!!

     But for now it's walley time. I'm just now learning how to fish the river for them. Would appreciate any
     advice from other walley anglers.            Mike

Hey Reefratmary, Not a lefty here, but glad you signed on.

      Wayne..... I might have tried those also.....just can't remember?   Mike

Hey Cam, Oh yea that's another great point! Phrasing. The ability to fit the song words into the musicical structure
               of the song. I'm sure there are words in this particular song Tony is working on that are given more
               or given less time in each measure. Also the sylables of words can confuse us a little. Even the simple
               task of breathing at the right moment so as you have enough breath to finish a long phrase.
       
               If anyones interested: Who'd a thunk.... but there's a book, "Singing For Dummies", that is available and is
               a good source. I have one.                   Mike

Hey Stransongs, Nice job! This song has that "different" feel to it. I think I can hear the phrygian mode
       over those chords? That's what came to mind.              Mike

Hey again,
       Yea Doug got what you were showing for fingering and sometimes use that and also Nela's long A or

       versions of any other way to play it. Wow......that was just the A!? Gotta have more humor.

       Bensonp........when are you gonna thing thome of them thinging thongs that theveral think is thilly?lol ,  mike

Howdy Doug, actually if you do the Spock finger spread between the 1st and 2nd fingers while the 2nd,3rd,4th are bunched together this is how they go on the strings.x02340        Mike

Jerome, I wonder this myself. My only reasoning might be that beginners tend to learn songs that are easy to learn and alot of easier music are blues stuff key of E which alot of songs will show a BMaj chord and not an alternate B. So..they then have to
go thru the learning of the dreadful A position barre fingerings. Somehow I think this is good. Learn the barres as soon as you
are ready, but learn which alternates work for each barre. This way you can play the song while you are getting the barres down pat.        Barre F-F#, Bflat-B are down there where the string tension makes it rough for learning. Not sure if this makes any sense but I think what I'm getting to is that songs that show all major chords and A-C-D-E-F-G all have open fingerings
whereas the B has to be barred--unless you have learned that alternate chords are OK to use.

              I think I just confused myself-lol,                another NW picker, Mike

Hey Big Mik,  As Bensonp says... practice is a must, and the way you practice is also important.Have you developed a habit
   
     of grabbing the neck with your thumb along the side of the neck while playing open chords? Some people with larger

     hands(long fingers) can ususally get away with this but us shorter fingered people need to focus on placing the "ball"

     end of the thumb more under the back of the neck to allow  your wrist to curve more upwards and kinda rotating back

     toward you. This allows your fingers to be placed on the strings in a more perpendicular way to the fretboard and not

     having a tendency to touch the adjacent strings causing the muting of strings like you are saying. This will most

     likely be uncomfortable at first but keep at it and all will be well.  Hope this helped,   Mike

Hey Craig, Sorry... can't give thoughts on the class5. Did see a review on the night train and actv4. The guy ran the 4 thru
    a blackheart 4-10 cab and he gave good reviews. Can't remember the link offhand but will try to find it, anyway when
    I played it thru the vox 12" cab we also hooked in a booster pedal and and got some loudness which I need for playing
    at jams and outdoor stuff. Didn't get it yet but will get the head and think about maybe the 4-10 cab. This item is new
    so we'll see if others are checking it out. Thanks for the input,  Mike