Drummer's Corner of the World

The guitar made it safely to Kansas City (and so did I)... I took it in the gig bag, left my laptop at home (so I wouldn't have as much cruft to carry on) and Southwest didn't give me any problems at all about carrying it on and putting it in the overhead bin.

Yay for gate agents who are more reasonable than the company's stated policy! :-)

Saw Spiderman 3 this afternoon. It was okay... cool special effects, but even more over the top than usual for the Spidey franchise. Tonight, we're off to see Peter Mayer (the folksinger from MN, not the guy who plays with Jimmy Buffett) in concert, and tomorrow we party. Whee!

bynkii has pointed out that Musician's Friend (based here) is moving warehouses this weekend and having a huge sale. I called him an evil man (but we knew that already) and am pretending not to have heard. 'Cause one guitar on the plane was enough, thankyouverymuch...

I must go nap now... two hours of sleep last night has finally caught up w/ me!

As much as I love my little electric guitar (and it does get the credit for getting me back into guitar, since the thin body let me play comfortably with my messed-up right shoulder and the easy action was kind to my fingers while I was re-learning), there are times that I'd really like to carry the absolute minimum of Stuff with me... bardic circles in the park... relaxacons... etc.

So I've been guitar-shopping for awhile now, trying to balance the need for a thin body, light weight, good acoustic sound and good sound when plugged in (since I won't ever assume that this will never need to be amplified, even though I don't normally play guitar w/ WM).

I kept finding that most of the shallow-body electric acoustics didn't have much projection when unplugged (or sounded thin), but then Brad showed up at a Mother Grove gig with a new guitar. It sounded wonderful through the PA, and it was thin! Not quite electric-guitar thin, but thinner by about an inch than a lot of the acoustics that I'd tried and rejected. I asked him how it sounded unplugged... he waxed rhapsodic for awhile... then I borrowed it and wandered off to a quiet corner.

( How I fell in love with a laminate guitar... )

So now I have a new baby, which of course has prompted me to do lots of practicing, which means that my left-hand fingertips now go "Ow!!" when I try to type.

(Oh... one last note... I wasn't being sarcastic about the helpful friendly sales-critter... he was wonderful (and I'm not usually a huge Sam Ash fan, so this was unexpected) and I'd recommend him to anybody looking to guitar-shop in the Indy area. Jonathan Martin at the Sam Ash in Castleton.)