You ought to have a go mate he gave me a quick lesson and I am hooked on the idea.
He is a good teacher and although he laughed at my efforts quite a lot he actualy got me doing it in half an hour os so.
Maybe not Keith Moon standard,but then I,ll never play guitar like Dick Appleton or Julie Ellison but my god it is satisfying when you get even a little bit right.
I was fascinated on friday to see the different guitar styles of the artistes close up.They are all different and all achieve the desired end.
Now one of the players would say (Cos I heard em say it) their guitar playing is awful!But I would say that it was perfect to accompany the way they sing which is passionate and thrilling.
The other three were more accomplished technically IMHO,and their performances, or that of the singer were equally well served by their style and skilled playing.
Big Al said something which rings bells with me,the music snobs and instrument fetishists that you get.
Unfortuantly,to have a collection of fine instruments you usualy have a collection of fine bank accounts to go with it.
And money talks.
One of the best things about MRFC and Gainsbro FC is that they are not Tarquin and Jemmima,s pet project for when the hunt is taking a break or Venezualian Donkey trekking is out of season.
I visited a few clubs when we were camping last year and the welcome and the fun to be had is proportionaly higher the less of a history lesson you are given in the intro to each song.
Yes it is great that someone bothered to collect a lot of the old songs before neglect sent them to oblivion, but it is also true that the people that had them originaly must have benn fed up with hearing them and gotten some good new ones or they would have not needed saving would they?
Does a song that is so far from relevent to the modern way of life that it needs a university lecturer to introduce it properly and explain all the strange out of use words and translate the dead dialect, have a place in a living breathing folk club or should they find a better audience at Historic music clubs and events?
Discuss hehehe sorry Les!