My soul can speak again
I got a new guitar. After 3 or 4 years of mourning my pretty Dolly, my first instrument, a classical guitar who was irreparably damaged by getting kicked down the stairs after a sibling left her in the basement doorway... I did have a metal-stringed fellow, whose sound was essentially SHIT regardless of the fact that he didn't suit my music anyway...
My new girl is stunning. She's a Valencia VG-30R. Her sound is UNWORLDLY gorgeous. Not only does she make me wonder why I ever thought metal strings would do my music justice, she's like an evolution after what Dolly sounded like. Dolly, bless her, was very dear to me, but she was also a cheap model I picked up for under $100 at Costco. The new girl is real quality -- it's amazing to me how instantly that's apparent, because I've never played a classical guitar other than Dolly before. She's stunning and rich and pure-sounding... eee.
She's a beauty to look at, too. Mahogany front, rosewood neck, and cedar back, all natural finish and polished to a mirror-shine with pretty-patterned steel bits holding the tuners in place. I didn't even notice until I got her home, but at the very top of the neck is the letter V painted in goldenrod-yellow. Perfectly, she's already branded with the first initial of my name.
So now I get to play her until I find her name, and remember all the chords to my old songs.
Also, in other music geekery news, I would like to say... did Coldplay pay off the entire music industry to be considered rock? Seriously? I am not fucking kidding. This music widget here thinks they're related to GnR. My local rock station keeps playing them... and I mean it's not that I think they're BAD (repetative maybe, but not BAD), but "Fix You" is in no way similar to "Welcome to the Jungle" and "X & Y" is not remotely like "Civil War." Coldplay is NOT THAT KIND OF ROCK. Or even really rock at all, IMHO. They're like... trancey soft-rock or something, maybe. Maybe. On the scale of genre, they're hangin' somewhere between Beck and Clay Aiken. So whyyyyy does everybody think they're ROCK?
My new girl is stunning. She's a Valencia VG-30R. Her sound is UNWORLDLY gorgeous. Not only does she make me wonder why I ever thought metal strings would do my music justice, she's like an evolution after what Dolly sounded like. Dolly, bless her, was very dear to me, but she was also a cheap model I picked up for under $100 at Costco. The new girl is real quality -- it's amazing to me how instantly that's apparent, because I've never played a classical guitar other than Dolly before. She's stunning and rich and pure-sounding... eee.
She's a beauty to look at, too. Mahogany front, rosewood neck, and cedar back, all natural finish and polished to a mirror-shine with pretty-patterned steel bits holding the tuners in place. I didn't even notice until I got her home, but at the very top of the neck is the letter V painted in goldenrod-yellow. Perfectly, she's already branded with the first initial of my name.
So now I get to play her until I find her name, and remember all the chords to my old songs.
Also, in other music geekery news, I would like to say... did Coldplay pay off the entire music industry to be considered rock? Seriously? I am not fucking kidding. This music widget here thinks they're related to GnR. My local rock station keeps playing them... and I mean it's not that I think they're BAD (repetative maybe, but not BAD), but "Fix You" is in no way similar to "Welcome to the Jungle" and "X & Y" is not remotely like "Civil War." Coldplay is NOT THAT KIND OF ROCK. Or even really rock at all, IMHO. They're like... trancey soft-rock or something, maybe. Maybe. On the scale of genre, they're hangin' somewhere between Beck and Clay Aiken. So whyyyyy does everybody think they're ROCK?