One helpful reply in five isn't bad. Thank-you, Songster Bob.

Guys like Jim Lad aren't so much fun, though. Speaking the truth just isn't popular or fun, Jim. It's why politicians lie to us.

"There must be some way out of here," pleads Fumble Fingers to the City of MudCat. "No, there isn't," says Jim with cynical glee.

Then katlaughing led me to Rick Fielding. It wasn't where I wanted to go with my question because now we'll never get back to guitars and gutter guitar gonzos like me.

Rick's overwhelming generosity of spirit and advice, his kindness and goodness, so takes over searches on MudCat that I can't actually find his guitar advice.

What an amazingly good man he was.

On another thread, "Working on reader of Rick's music tips.." Marion says: "I have had in mind that I should find and put together some of the advice that Rick posted on Mudcat about guitar and other musicianship topics. Having seen some similar suggestions posted, and having discussed it some with Allan C., I've started work on this project with a view to making it publicly available rather than just for my benefit."
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=68181

Marion, how's the project coming along? I need you and Rick, right now. Save me from the "Might as well jump" Jims of the MudCat world.