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Two of my daughters have discovered my record collection - or vinyl as they call it now. They came to "Sweet Baby James" and Becky said "Who's James Taylor then?" to which Jessica responded "Doesn't he make guitars?"

Don't you just love it when that happens?    

Dad's passions have rubbed off but not necessarily stuck in the right places (a bit like some of my bridges but that's another story!!)

Dream on Bob - haven't seen "Fire and Rain" on the Factory Friday videos yet but Im sure it's only a matter of time!!

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Dave White
De Faoite Stringed Instruments
". . . the one thing a machine just can't do is give you character and personalities and sometimes that comes with flaws, but it always comes with humanity" Monty Don talking about hand weaving, "Mastercrafts", Weaving, BBC March 2010

My son is turning into a pretty good guitar player but he doesn't play much music that he learned from me. Every once in a while though he'll play a blues lick that takes me my surprize because it's right out of my catalog of licks. He'll get a big wide grin on his face because he knows I know were it came from. So he did learn some from me afterall.John How38611.4461805556

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Tickle your guitar daily, and it'll tickle you back.

My grandson 12 shocked the heck out of me one day. I was taking him to the mall and he asked me to play my Robert Johnson CD because he liked "Crossroads" Far cry from the c"rap" he usually listens to.

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Over the last few years blues has become really big in our small town. Three years ago it was all heavey metal, now it's the blues. Funny how things change.

Cortney: (my oldest grandaughter) "Gandpa did you ever see Paul McCartney when he was with his first band Wings?" MichaelP38611.5056828704

How I knew I had entered a more "mature" generation...

I was leafing through the (blues) CD's in Lansing, MI's Elderly Instruments a few years ago, and heard this as two late-teenish guys walked by: "Man, I can't believe you're in to metal, and haven't heard of Hendrix!"

Sigh.

My daughter a few years ago brought me one of her Britney Spears CD where she did a cover of Satisfaction. She says to me, "This was done before a long time ago by a bunch of guys who are probably dead now".

She is now 13 and totally infatuated with Queen. When she looked through my old LP's and found a few of their albums, after the shock wore off, I think I went up a couple of notched on her coolness scale.

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Scott Thompson
Port Townsend,WA

"In a perfect world we'd all sing in tune
But this is reality so give me some room"
-Billy Bragg

My kids are 5, 3 and 18 months. I am always making them mix cd's and quizzing them in the car about who each band is, what instruments they play, etc.

So far it is mostly the usual suspects, but we are starting to branch out into some older more obscure stuff.

My wife just thinks I am nuts.

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Brock Poling
Columbus, Ohio
http://www.polingguitars.com

Gee Brock, that sounds like the Gibson commercial back around Christmas time....are you preparing them for some similar future purchase?

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"I want to know what kind of pickups Vince Gill uses in his Tele, because if I had those, as good of a player as I am, I'm sure I could make it sound like that.
Only badly."

No. Just trying to make sure there is no rap or britney @ my house.

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Brock Poling
Columbus, Ohio
http://www.polingguitars.com

[QUOTE=Scott Thompson] My daughter a few years ago brought me one of her Britney Spears CD where she did a cover of Satisfaction. She says to me, "This was done before a long time ago by a bunch of guys who are probably dead now".
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A case of "Reverse Gendering" - have you heard Richard Thompson's cover of Britney's "Oops! I did it again"? It's wonderful!!

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Dave White
De Faoite Stringed Instruments
". . . the one thing a machine just can't do is give you character and personalities and sometimes that comes with flaws, but it always comes with humanity" Monty Don talking about hand weaving, "Mastercrafts", Weaving, BBC March 2010

Hey Brock, Those guys are dead aren't they. Have you seen Richards lately?

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Tickle your guitar daily, and it'll tickle you back.

It's a sad story to tell ...

My daughter's musical sojourn took a bizarre turn. Her 1st "real" album, at the tender age of 9 years, was "Magical Mystery Tour". Then it was Sgt. Peppers - not a bad start by most standards.

That was followed by a few Todd Rundgren albums & a Prince album and then she got bit with the "Tiffany" & "Debbie Gibson" teenybopper bug. My wife & I hoped that the stage would pass & she would regain her musical senses.

Flash forward twenty years & she's married an fine Australian fellow who now has her listening to Brittany Spears & Kylie Minouge (noveau-disco). I still send her decent CDs from time to time in hopes of breaking her bad-music habit. So far, no luck ... sigh.

Skip

"Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin'.
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'."

— Bob Dylan, The Times They are a Changin', 1964.

I find it a bittersweet acomplishment to now really understand these lyrics from both sides of the gap.

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Well, I use to listing to U2 (joshua tree and older), but know all I know are kids songs. Sigh.

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[QUOTE=John How] Hey Brock, Those guys are dead aren't they. Have you seen Richards lately? [/QUOTE]

Didn't he star in Pirates of the Caribbean?

Colin

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I heard he's going to be in #2 but I don't think it's out yet. He'll probably fit right in with that crowd

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Tickle your guitar daily, and it'll tickle you back.

Sort of like taxodermy meets animatronics.   

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Brock Poling
Columbus, Ohio
http://www.polingguitars.com

I have a son who is 16 and he knows I play everything from metal to Mozart and puts up with the 80+ different kinds of instruments that are in every room of the house (really...I have a soprano uke hanging in the powder room).

He is an avid photographer and often is invited to take photos of high school bands that play in "battle of the bands" type shows. He knows my love of music so I always ask when he gets home from a concert or show, "How was it?...How many bands?...what kind of stuff were they playing?"...

The other night he comes home having heard 6 bands and replies, "you would have liked it...there were a bunch of older guys that showed up (he said they had to be in their 30's ) and were good players that were playing "old school" stuff...now I am thinking that he is talking about Jackson Browne or Wes Montgomery or even Grateful Dead...so I say, "cool...what kind of old school?" to which he replies, "you know Nirvana, Pearl Jam..."

If that doesnt make you feel old although because he knows I like and play alot of different stuff, when I played James Taylor, he said "now that is Mom's kind of Music..." Shawn38612.5646643518

I can speak to this...

I was working at a confirmation retreat a few years ago. I used Paul Simon as an example for something and was met with thirty pairs of eyes staring at me blankly. Of course, this was before the Wild Thornberrys soundtrack and Art getting arrested (twice in a year and a half) for his bad habits (at 60 no less!)

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Joe Breault
Merrimack, NH
Perpetual novice