My nana bought me a Coast gown for a ball years ago
and I realised why some people always buy expensive clothes. What a joy to wear! We've turned into Trinny & Susannah here Vip...

Ooh I leave the guitar stringing to other people.
Nylon sound lovely, but harder to play, as I recall.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Sat 9 Jan 2010, 16:15, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

I know just as much about matters sartorial as those sour-faced hags
I break so many strings I have to be able to string them myself.

Not harder to play, just different. This guitar isn't mine unfortunately. I'm waiting for my mum to bequeath her classical guitar to me. It's a glorious instrument.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Sat 9 Jan 2010, 16:17, Reply)

I want my dad's guitar
Everyone comments on what a dream it is to play. I learnt on that guitar.
My uncle has commandeered it, but it is NOT his and I will have it!!
(I stuck a pencil through it when I was about 7- the only time my dad ever smacked me - so it bears my mark.)
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Sat 9 Jan 2010, 16:21, Reply)

i had a 12 string on long term loan
from my dad in law. One of the few downsides to divorce is I don't get to play it now
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sat 9 Jan 2010, 16:23, Reply)

Ooh, bad.

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Sat 9 Jan 2010, 16:24, Reply)

i don't play well anyway
so I suppose to people with ears it's no loss. I might get a cheap acoustic sometime soon to practise on
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sat 9 Jan 2010, 16:26, Reply)

cheap acoustics can be quite good these days
lot better than when I started out.

12 strings are nice. bastard to restring though. took me an hour and a half the first time I did it...
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Sat 9 Jan 2010, 16:27, Reply)

I'm proper shit
but it's enough to be able to make a bit of accompaniment if I'm having a warble.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Sat 9 Jan 2010, 16:28, Reply)

I love guitars
I need more. I was in my favourite shop earlier, and there was literally nothing there that I wanted though. It's unsettling.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Sat 9 Jan 2010, 16:26, Reply)

I'd love a big Gretsch
but it would be rude of a crap player like me to even touch it.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Sat 9 Jan 2010, 16:29, Reply)

I'm not a fan of that type
my mate has an Epiphone electro-acoustic job and I don't get on with it at all. goes out of tune all the time when I play it
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Sat 9 Jan 2010, 16:33, Reply)

I love jangly ones
Like Richard Hawley's
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Sat 9 Jan 2010, 16:34, Reply)

that's exactly the sort I mean
listened to that Paul Simon song btw. It is a great one, just didn't know the name!
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Sat 9 Jan 2010, 16:37, Reply)

Did it make you dance a bit?

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Sat 9 Jan 2010, 16:42, Reply)

can't remember
I'll try it again

edit: yep, instantly
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Sat 9 Jan 2010, 16:43, Reply)

I've been doing the twist to that since I was a kid
Still makes my folks laugh
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Sat 9 Jan 2010, 16:47, Reply)