JW's and guitars! I hate 'em!

by expatbrit 24 Replies latest jw friends

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  expatbrit

  OK what is it with male JW's and guitars?

  It seems like it's a badge of spirituality or something. You go to a congregation bbq or something, and there's always at least three brothers sitting around endlessly playing the same few chords over and over again. And they all have that "I'm so cool it's painful" straining-on-the-toilet expression on their faces. And, while I admit to having no guitar playing ability whatsoever, they are all CRAP! And even so, the ones reaching out will inflict a rendition of their favourite endless-cycle of the same damn chords over and over again on the hapless congregation; the forced to coo politely women and the accursed amhaarets brothers who don't play the sodding guitar, and who always get the "you're nothing you plectrum-deprived scumbags" looks.

  WHY? WHY?

  WHY?

  Expatbrit (had a visit from his JW guitar-mauling brother-in-law last night)
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  ISP

  I know this single brother took up the guitar. He said it would get him a girlfriend. It did and he got married etc. Is that anything to do with it? He said girls couldn't resist spanish guitar.

  ISP
  Guitar-less Class
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  Englishman

  Hmm.

  Course, if, like me you could play and sing Claptons "Wonderful tonight", you might feel a teensy bit different.

  Gotta go.

  It's late in the evening................

  Nostalgia isn't what it used to be....
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  expatbrit

  I can play that on my armpit!

  Expatbrit
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  jayhawk1

  You too, I thought that was just a Kansas thing.

  "Hand me that whiskey, I need to consult the spirit."-J.F. Rutherford

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  COMF

  Meanwhile, over there with the real musicians...
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  Makena1

  Hey Ex - do I detect a note of jealousy? LOL. Very funny post, because I am guilty of "I'm so cool it's painful" straining-on-the-toilet expression on their faces" - most likely because I am trying to hit the same notes Neil Young does.

  Too funny!

  Having started on the piano when I was 8, playing at assemblies, weddings, parties, etc., I discovered that a piano was not so portable so like Englishman, took up the guitar. (do a pretty mean Wonderful Tonight myself thankyou) My wife, who was never one to swoon over my musicianship, is much more pleased when I sit at the piano and play something classical.

  All that aside, you have to be a musician to understand. AND, it's not just for the reasons that prompted David Crosby to say - "Guitar players tend to get laid earlier and more often"!!
  Mak
  Ex - you too can become a "player". Roy Clark, formerly of Hee Haw will sell you a guitar, chord book and instruction video for less than $100 american. ;)
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  safe4kids

  Ex - you too can become a "player". Roy Clark, formerly of Hee Haw will sell you a guitar, chord book and instruction video for less than $100 american. ;)

  DON'T DO IT EXPAT!!!!! Cling to your principles man!!

  Dana

  Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end...
  Closing Time, Semisonic
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  ofcmad

  when everything else is taken away, what else can you do?

  "Noah was a drunk and look what he accomplished." The Metatron/ Dogma
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  TR

  I bow to the great Tony Iommi!

  TR

  The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
  —Edmund Burke