The AGF Commandment thread for Newbies

Apologies for the thread drift. I have nothing to add.

[srick]

Originally Posted by Todd Yates

Interesting thread.

I'm not a newbie, but I'm right on track with the first post, then my train derails. Unless it's summertime and I'm sweating at a festival, I never wipe a guitar after playing. I don't know all the notes on the fretboard. I almost never practice. Mostly, I just "play the darn thing", paraphrased from Tony Rice.

So, apparently, I'm going about this all wrong.

Thread drift on:

Thom Bresh tells a story of his father Merle Travis:

A young kid comes up to Merle and asks, "Mr. Travis, what type of strings do you use?"

Travis replies, "Huh? Guitar strings, of course"

Thread drift off:

And now back to our normally scheduled thread . . .

[ljguitar]

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If you want to find out if guitars age, and what that is like, buy a good one and play/keep it enough years that it will age.





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[Slinky]

Originally Posted by fazool

All of these are superseded and and made redunandant by this one:



"The AGF search button is your friend. You are welcome among guitar friends here, but save yourself (and everyone) time and trouble. Before posting a question that might have already been discussed countless times, click that search button."

This was the first thing I thought of. Good advice too.

[grim83]

It's the player not the guitar

Any guitar is better than no guitar

Plenty of beautiful music has been made on cheap guitar shaped piles of junk.

[Earwitness]

Be nice.

And, what you don't like now, you may end up liking later.

Originally Posted by fazool

All of these are superseded and and made redunandant by this one:



"The AGF search button is your friend. You are welcome among guitar friends here, but save yourself (and everyone) time and trouble. Before posting a question that might have already been discussed countless times, click that search button."

Except pretty much every topic has been discussed more than once before, so this would be a pretty dead place were everyone to live in fear of bringing up something that had been mentioned before.

My advice is for those who think it is "trouble" to answer a question for the 2nd/3rd/4th/etc. time, then simply skip the thread. Or at least answer the question succinctly as well as point them to older threads for more info. Imagine a teacher who avoided all student questions and only told them to go do their own research.

[RedJoker]

Have fun. This isn't life and death.

[llew]

Originally Posted by CyberFerret

It's perfectly Ok NOT to like a particular guitar player, style of music or brand of guitar.

However, people who DO like that artist/brand/music don't need to hear your views expressed in a derisive or disrespectful way.

It is possible to not like someone/something yet still respect them.

Next.

+1...nuff said!

[Howard Emerson]

Originally Posted by Toby Walker

The collected wisdom of any forum is anything but.

Amen.

HE

[Methos1979]

Thou SHALL post photos of any new guitar thou has purchased!

[Howard Emerson]

Originally Posted by HHP

The big, round hole faces front.

The one on the guitar?

HE

[jpd]

Originally Posted by HHP

The big, round hole faces front.

Oh, oh

[Vognell]

Originally Posted by hovishead

If you're happy with your guitar - don't "upgrade" it because of something you read here.

Whaaaaat? burn the heretic!

[RedJoker]

Originally Posted by Howard Emerson

The one on the guitar?

HE

I sometimes reference the facial sound hole.