RE: Past two Fridays........Awesome!

[bikolee]

 
The past 2 Fridays have been awesome for me.  Yesterday, I got the new Silverado.  The Friday before..... As most of you know, I m a music head, and acoustic guitar player. Well, last Friday Ray Wylie Hubbard was playing a free set at Bill s Records in Dallas. After he finished his set, I went up and asked him a simple question.  You see I ve been playing off and on for over 30 years.  I read an article about him a while back where he said he didn t learn to finger pick until he was 43.  I consider myself a resonably good player, but have trouble with " the constant thumb" . I asked him how he learned the " trick" .  Well to shorten this up, not only did he tab out a few patterns to practice, he also sat with me for about 20 minutes giving me lessons.....
 
 Life is good[][8D][]

[Ab Diver]

 bikolee
(clears throat) Ahem... I hate to point this out, but gloating about two things in the same post is a serious breach of forum protocol. Therefore, you are required to list one as a " neener" , and the other as a " gloat" .
 
 Note: A " neener"  is something you got, and we want, but is still attainable by the average person. A new truck is a " neener" . A gloat is something you got, and we want, but the chances of any one of us getting the same thing are slim to none. A personal music lesson from a legend is a " gloat" .
 
 Now, if you had mentioned that you went to your lucky lesson in your *brand new truck*, and made no further mention of said truck, but continued to gloat about your personal music lesson, that in itself is called a " drive-by gloat" . Those are sometimes the most insidious, and yet subtly enjoyable, gloats of all.
 
 So, on that note (pardon the pun), you qualify for one standard (though very nice) neener, and a major gloat. Glad we got that all straightened out. Congrats and well done!
 
 (walks away muttering to self about other s good fortune....)
 
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[The Robinsons]

 bikolee
Soooo.... are you going to the NTPUCA campout at Cedar Hill next weekend?  You ll be providing the entertainment as payment for the neener and the gloat, I assume?!  To compensate for my husband s truck envy, I think payment in the form of a quick guitar lesson will be required, as well.  I m pushing for a guitar as a Mother s Day gift because I ve decided I want to be a chick with a guitar when I grow up! []  
 
 Buffi