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Once again, it's time for the FNGT!

If you don't know how this works, click this link (fngt.gq). That link will take you to another site to give you some additional information and tell you about some of our off-site features. That's also the site where we will host the weekly guitar threads, should Poal go down.

NOTE: That site is by invitation only. If you want an invite, and you're a regular participant, then just ask COF, Crazy, or myself.

If you do know what's going on, you probably don't need to click that link - but you may want to, to make sure you know of the other features, such as the archive or a separate forum that's invite only.

Remember, we are guests here on Poal. Let's act like it. If you're interested in supporting Poal, then you can donate.

**Once again, it's time for the FNGT!** If you don't know how this works, [click this link](https://fngt.gq/index.php?page=intro). That link will take you to another site to give you some additional information and tell you about some of our off-site features. That's also the site where we will host the weekly guitar threads, should Poal go down. **NOTE:** That site is by invitation only. If you want an invite, and you're a regular participant, then just ask COF, Crazy, or myself. If you do know what's going on, you probably don't need to click that link - but you may want to, to make sure you know of the other features, such as the archive or a separate forum that's invite only. Remember, we are guests here on Poal. Let's act like it. If you're interested in supporting Poal, then [you can donate](https://poal.co/donate).

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OK, I'm here.

Breaking out the archives. This was me messing with a drum machine in the late 1990's on my Yamaha 4-track cassette recorder. I imported it with Audacity on the PC. I was just learning the stuff, and I know the beat is kind of fucked up at the end.

https://soundcloud.com/thewilake/acoustic-with-drum-machine

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I've never really gotten into drum machines. I'm kinda surprised that I haven't, as they make useful tools to help practice guitar.

And, the thread goes all weekend, more or less. So, you're not really late.

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That sounds pretty cool, though I think it needs some words, or at least oohs and ahhs. The drum machine sounded good to me

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LOL you KNOW I can't sing HAHAH

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LoL I remember you saying that, maybe get a dog that can sing!l Sometimes I hear disembodied voices singing along with me. I am not sure what that is. You can use auto tune and fix it LoL

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Uh it will be awhile. I am relearning the AutoHarp atm.

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Keep at it and let us hear how you're doing. It's cool to share the journey with us too, that's half the fun.

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Good evening, guys. Happy VD weekend! I recalled a love song my friend and I wrote about 25 years ago today, so I dug through my notebooks, found the lyrics, and recorded a fresh version to my phone on my a-cue-stick guitar.

Phone Pole (soundcloud.com) by Courtney's Love Hole.

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That sounds like a fun song to play, banging on those chords with the stop action.

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Wow, I hear the influences from that time. Great job!

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That's quite a mean love song

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Sweet! I like the vocals and we're glad you could make it.

Cue stick guitar?

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It's a Fender 12-string, but I keep it stripped down to 6.

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Huh... It sounded pretty good for a Fender acoustic. It had a pretty robust tone to it.

Normally a Fender acoustic is about as good as a Martin electric. I tend to avoid both.

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That's nice. Sounds great as an acoustic piece. The staccato parts fit in nicely.

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Guess I'm late to the party again. I'll try and be faster next week.

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People tend to check the thread all weekend long, so you're all good. You'll have fewer folks listening, but still some folks will hear it.

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I got nothing new this week. I have not been home much. So I sat down and played this here prelude (soundcloud.com) to a song I had written long ago on acoustic guitar cause I don't think you guys have ever heard this song on guitar before.

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Very nice. Is that a hubcap guitar (dobro)?

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No that's just a cheap acoustic guitar with some flanger and chorus added to it to make it sound interesting to me

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Fooled me. Sounded just like a dobro.

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That made me start looking for stuff, I have a prelude to a sing I never figured out what to do with, and will find it for later.

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Thats cool, hope you can make something out of it!

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Cool, reminds me of some early Yes/Steve Howe.

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Thanks COF! I thought it sounded pretty. My friends wife came out of her coma yesterday. My friend ordered a t-shirt that I designed for her and he received the shirt and stopped over here the other night when I wasn't home and got drunk with Verle and Verle told him to bring that shirt to her and tell her that he bought her a new shirt to see if that would wake her up. So he did just that, the hospital did whatever they do to wake someone up from a coma and he was there and when she started to come to she was thrashing around trying to get free of the restraints, and they asked him to talk to her and see if he could calm he down he said that he was there and she's ok to her and then he told her that he bought her a new shirt and he brought it with him to give to her. When he told her that she calmed down and they were able to turn off all the machines and she is up and awake and breathing on her own and they are going to try to get her eating solid food tomorrow. So that's great news. we were all thinking she wasn't going to make it. She was comatose for ten days. Thats a long time. I have not heard yet what she thinks of the shirt that he bought for her. Just look (files.catbox.moe)

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That's really great news. Hope she gets better quickly. That's not really a shirt one would wear out in public but as long as she likes it that's all that matters.

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I'm glad your friend is okay though.

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LOL. If that doesn't scream "Get well soon!" I don't know what does. Well done.

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Nope, I don't think I'd heard that on guitar before.

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I wrote that one years ago for a girl I thought was pretty

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Very nice! Did you ever play it for her?

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Where is she today?

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I have the good fortune of having wonderful people in my life. This next track features two of them. This is one that two lovely ladies put together, specifically Biff and J. I just laid down the percussion track, they did the real work. Put your hands together for one final track for the night:

Nirvana - Heart Shaped Box (B #1; J B; TB P) (share.fngt.gq)

And that's it for the evening. That should be plenty to keep you going. If not, make some damned music yourself!

Rock on, bears. Rock on!

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👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

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The ladies did the heavy lifting on that one.

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Tell those ladies I love them and they are freaking awesome and gorgeous and hell fucking yeah!

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Fucking awesome again man! Tremendous!

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Wife? Gorlfriend? What are those?

---I am in the middle of moving...imagine my new landlady's surprise today when I showed up with a Marshall stack, several Ampeg and Fender amps, 6 large PA speakers...I just loaded the car with about 25 guitars, and tomorrow will do it again with another 25. "Oh, didn't I mention I'm a musician?"

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LOL Don't get evicted!

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Today she helped me carry my guitars, Marshall 100 w head, and various other stuff...tomorrow I show up with more 2x15 cabs, and a 4x12, plus more guitars...I promised her she will never hear any of it, but she already wants to pay me to teach her and her son how to play, lol..

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Good luck! Finding good students is as hard as finding good teachers.

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Just in case anybody was wondering what song that prelude I played earlier was from it was this (soundcloud.com)

If you listen to that you will understand why you've never heard the prelude on guitar before tonight.

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That's actually what I was expecting you to share for Valentine's Day.

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LoL it is very fitting!

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It's what I expected.

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As previously mentioned, there are so many songs about love that we were sure we had plenty from our archives. Sure enough, we have plenty of them. So, let's pull something else from the archives and toss it into the mix.

GnR Patience (B #1; J B; TB #2) (share.fngt.gq)

throws horns

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So that was Biff on that bad ass solo? Man did she play the hell out of those strings. Sound like she's attacking them and pulling hard on the strings to get that snapping sound. Awesome man.

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That was indeed Biff. She's come a long ways in her guitar-learning journey.

She plays for as many as four hours per day.

Edit: Wait, no... No, that was me - on #2. That's the order the guitars are in in the tab. Izzy starts and then Slash joins in. So, I'm #2.

I didn't click 'view' and see what this was in response to. So, I was thinking you were referencing the Nirvana song.

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I love it. man this is so good. I was singing along all the way through it. It was so satisfying when I got to the last word time and it was right when the guitar part was expecting it. That was fun. You two are so awesome!

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It's a great song. A timeless classic. Glad ya liked it!

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I love it. It brings back great memories

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Hello and welcome to another FNGT! As you can see, my vacation is over. I'd like to thank COF and Crazy for taking care of the thread for those weeks. We appreciated the break.

We're still taking it a bit lax. We needed something special for our Valentine's Day thread, but we figured we'd probably done enough songs about love so that we didn't need to do anything new. Sure enough, we were able to pick one out of the archives that suits the holiday. After all, there are so very many songs about love.

Jefferson Airplane - Somebody To Love (B #2 & T & B; J K; TB #1 & P) (share.fngt.gq)

We probably won't be here all that late tonight. We have stuff to do tomorrow morning.

Rock on, Poalr Bears. Rock on!

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Turn on the blacklight and light the incense.

Jorma and Jack were so good together and got even better with Hot Tuna.

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I flipped through the archives and used the search function at FNGT.

Have we done War Pigs before?

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I don't have any record of you doing it nor do I remember you doing it, but my memory sucks.

When I was at the Doc last, he was testing and gave me 3 words to remember. Moments later I could only remember 2. I thought of HAL in 2001.

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It's definitely a classic. It just needs someone to add the vocals.

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That's wild, man. Groovy. I dig it

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Glad ya liked it. It's from the archives. We too didn't do anything new, but there are a bunch of tracks that have never been shared on Poal.

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I didnt do anything new until that song I shared ten minutes before the thread opened. LoL

I also have a whole lot of music that has never been shared on Poal

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Don't think twice (soundcloud.com) Happy Valentines Day!

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Sounded great. Dylan is real good at acoustic accompaniment and Chris captured it pretty good.

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Thanks, I really liked the way this one turned out

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Yeah, he really put in the practice to nail the rhythm guitar.

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Chris puts some emotion to that one.

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Yeah, I thought that one was one of the better ones he has sang.

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That's one of my favorite break-up songs.

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LoL I rather enjoy that one myself!

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Damned right!