Post: #26

I should learn to play guitar better. I play but I don't play well and most of my skill is playing rhythm for heavy metal... doesn't exactly get it wet. I don't know any chords or how to play anyone else's songs but my own and certainly nothing recognizable

Post: #27

One of the best decisions I've made in my international travels is to bring a guitar and enough outboard to record songs I update or write abroad.

The partial isolation from normal time sinks like work and shopping enabled me to re-record and write new things incorporating the emotions from being in the new locations. I have one tragic song I re-did in a sub-zero freezing winter in Ukraine, and dissolute tales of corruption from -- guess-- Philippines.

Since I was looking for real relationships, socially it's huge for third world, I became humanized and more than a source of money.

I have a mac laptop, a simple ADA interface, decent sealed Sennheiser headphones, a Zoom H4N, and one general purpose old EV mic, and the below travel guitar which has been immeasurably helpful. No confronting flight crew pressuring them to allow your full-size acoustic on board, even in its case this very easily fits in the overheads.

I buy 7 string sets and discard the high string and I can tune it down to D, but that's just my morbid tendencies. Out of about 10 flights I was only asked to check it once by an anal female Philippines airlines manager.

Using a suitcase close to the max allowed size I have even fit it without its case diagonally across the interior. I've carried it strapped caseless on the back of my motorcycle in Philippines traffic. They only cost about $135 mail order so it's not a big source of stress.

Weaving through the jeepneys defying death with your cheap guitar on the back of your moto-- now THAT'S living. *

*I've had extensive experience racing bicycles ( badly) and mountain biking on steep difficult trails. I don't recommend
riding motorcycles in Asian cities. The emergency rooms are very reasonable however. ;-)

http://www.washburn.com/products/acoustics/RO10.html

Post: #28

I should've done that Washburn! I brought a Taylor GS Mini in a SKB hard case and the Airlines in the Philippines force me to check it. Costs me $1,000 pesos, the case got scuffed up but it held up well.

Playing the guitar in the condo helps loosen the girls up quite nicely, but I don't sing and they always want me to. I have to work on that.

Post: #29

(09-13-2016 09:55 PM)Onto Wrote:  .... but I don't sing and they always want me to. I have to work on that.

This is very true. When I send pics of me in my studio with guitar in hand to girls, or send them short little audio clips of me playing guitar or I play for them when they are over they always ask if I can sing. I can't My singing voice is garbage. Need to develop that - not just for pussy but for myself really.

Post: #30

When I carry my guitar, girls ask me if I play...

I say: "I play..but I'm not a Player!" wink wink.

Gets a laugh every time.