Guitars and Life : I'm obsessed with music and guitars. This blog is the "guitar" blog with much stuff about music and guitars - my life and recovery blog is available at http://guitarsandlife.wordpress.com
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Couldn't last for long... always seem to buy guitars around this time of year...
Just bought one of these (Yamaha CPX) as a more appropriate stage guitar than my LL series Yamaha, which isn't electro-acoustic for a start.
Thanks to my friend DeeJay for pointing this out to me - it was on a BBC2 show. An excellent summary of alcoholism I changed because I have the sickness of alcoholism, alcoholism doesn't come in bottles it comes in people. You should have seen me. I drank for happiness and became unhappy; I drank for joy and became miserable. I drank to be out-going and became self-centred; I drank for sociability and became argumentative and lonely; I drank for sophistication and became crude and obnoxious. I drank for friendship and made enemies, I drank to soften sorrow and wallowed in self-pity; I drank for sleep and awakened without rest. I drank for strength and felt weak. I drank for masculinity and it sapped my potency; I drank medicinally and got sick. I drank because I thought my job called for it and lost my job. I drank to stimulate thought and blacked out. I drank to make conversation and got to where I couldn't talk at all; I drank to forget and became haunted. I drank for freedom...
Folks will remember my purchase a few weeks back of the Vintage Gordon Giltrap VE2000GG 12 string to replace my old Yamaha which sadly has seen better days... My requirement was for a nice playable 12 string electro-acoustic. Most of my stuff is as you know acoustic rock orientated in the David Gray, John Mayer genre. I'd had my eye on a Gordon Giltrap for a couple of years now anyway since a) I'm a big Giltrap fan b) I'd heard said Mr Giltrap use the 6 string version live a couple of times and was impressed c) it seems incredible value for money. Now then my life was made a touch my complicated by the appearance of the Paul Brett signature 12string. This is a slight oddity in that this is a parlour sized guitar which to be honest wasn't my initial desire but has received rave reviews and also has been designed as a 12string from the ground up - unlike the Gordon Giltrap which is an adaptation of a 6 string design. Not unusual to be fair most 12 strings ar...
Have a Happy, Peaceful and Prosperous New Year old bean.
ReplyDeleteLove to all.
4D x
ps...I'm showcasing a new band on The Drunk Punk Show - Saturday 2nd Jan @ 9pm (I will, of course be playing you somewhere as well)
They're called Th' Parish and they're friends of Jax.
Bloody good too. Think Dexys/Pogues crossover.
It's not confirmed yet but they may also be at The Five Bells in March as your warm up act. They are up for it (as I'm Jax's dad) but we'll see.
You could have a warm up act!!!!
Have a good'n mate and give my hugs to your crew.
4D x
Special sales price? What does it sound like?
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year, G!
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