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I had two tough gigs. One was when I played at Buddy Guy's bar, opening for a friend of mine. We were young and inexperienced and had no business being there. The stage sat atop a power transformer for the subway so you could hear nothing but line hum in the monitors. We are nervous. About to go on. My buddy walks up as we finish tuning and says "dont get nervous but Buddy is here."
Worst show I ever played.
Second worst was when I was coughing up a lung from mild pneumonia in between songs. That was gross. Voice was shot within an hour.
They're tired of hemorrhaging money and want to turn it around. 
Zurf wrote:I have taught courses in some extremely dry material (U.S. Federal Acquisition*** Regulation requirements for contractors wishing to subcontract part of their work - it makes me yawn just typing it). When confronted with new material, no matter how it's laid out and no matter how little experience they have with the topic, people will ALWAYS want to address it from their experience. It doesn't surprise me in the least that she immediately went to her personal experience to try to resolve the question. And there's just no way to get to the destination with that as a starting point.
***I fell asleep
I play heavies on my acoustic, 11's or 12's on the electric but I also drop 1/2 step to get those big bends....used to break too many strings in standard tuning. I've played 13's but only on my jazz axe where i'm not bending so much.
can you send me a pic of how you hold your pick and hand on the bridge? or we can do a quick skype.
it also makes 1.5 and 2 step bends really, really difficult.
Do you tune to Eb as well?
You trying a left hand mute or a right hand mute?
I had a really hard time with his writing style but I loved the story...but Life was much better. I agree.
Life is incredible Jerry!!!!
So is Claptons biography and also Patti Boyd's.
I have a new day job. No more jams for me at that time. 
Agree with Zurf. Or strengthen your index finger so you can play the A as a mini barre chord.
Also you might think you need the E but you really don't...if the changes are that fast, ditch the high e string on this chord change...
Thanks!
Unfortunately I tore my thumb up on an aggressive bench press. Did it to myself.
Not quite happy with it yet but here 'tis....had to re arrange it cuz i blew out my thumb yet again so no fingerpicking for me for another month or more. D'oh.
http://baldguitardude.com/beast-of-burden-cover
I'd say this is a great opportunity to practice open position chords without using your index finger...build up the independence of the ring finger and pinky.
Dino I shot a wild/feral hybrid a couple of years ago and I'm still working my way through the meat!
Lots of BBQs and maybe a trip up north to get out of the heat, if I can manage it. Lots of weekends on my boat "The Lilly Pad."
@Jerome have you done a whole pig before? I can provide tips if you need it. I've done it a few times.
My callouses fall off every fall. I can't do anything to stop it. I molt.
Any of the other crossroads and Joe Bonamassa Live at Royal Albert Hall. Also Black Crowes Freak N Roll.
Came up with what I thought would be a cool arrangement for Beast Of Burden. However I did so on a plane without having my guitar in front of me. I've now spent the last 3 hours trying to teach myself a friggin' picking pattern that is too difficult for my level of ability. Boxed myself completely in a damned corner. Angry. Angry. Angry. And too stubborn to change it, of course.
end rant.
I use it for work....internet marketing, a teenie bit of design, and recording. I agree that they're overpriced but I'm hooked. PCs piss me off.
I'm now in the same boat as DJ. Love it.
Tangent: Sometimes the transcribers try to transcribe what is really meant to be noise or texture. If something doesn't look like a chord, it probably isn't. The original player was probably sounding ghost notes or making noise. Don't worry about hitting those notes exactly. An example in SLTS would be the
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chord. Although it's a G major, Cobain didn't really use it as a G major. He just hit open strings cuz they sound cool. Marty does a really good job of demonstrating that. Just lift up your hands and hit some notes.
Derek Trucks is also a master of this technique. Check out .08, .13, .35 and repeatedly after .46: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et_4zxne_OE
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