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Comment by Uncle John on December 28, 2016 at 6:09am

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Comment by 43rd Shamrock on December 28, 2016 at 5:39am

Uncle John,

I will have to take and accept your word on the tuning be same, as I really have no idea about all of that :-) .... I do love the tuning mentioned last evening and was up 1/2 then night trying to imitate Duane Allman slide, all to the level of my girl-friend telling me to PLEASE STOP !!

In so far as prison, it is what you make of it... you can let it kill you, or you can let it be a transforming process; in many ways, it was a type of Zen monastic experience for me. 

Comment by 43rd Shamrock on December 28, 2016 at 5:33am

Bluesheart,

The generation of our parents were beyond doubt, truly remarkable... I deeply admire all vets, but none more so than those who were in WW2 ... so few of them are left & each time I visit the VA hospital here in Atlanta, if I see a WW2 vet, I shake his/her hand...

Comment by Uncle John on December 28, 2016 at 2:17am

Very cool on your dad, Bluesheart.  God bless him.

Shamrock, I may have to look for Justin's tutorial, but that tuning would finger and slide the same as my fave GDGB.  

Wow, interesting on where you learned to play and who served time with you.  Let me say that I never went to jail or prison.  But it sure could have worked out that I did.  (I did my share of wrongs and illegals)  Thanks, Lord that I didn't (do jail) ! 

Comment by 43rd Shamrock on December 27, 2016 at 4:02pm

... yup, I play 6 string - (have a Fender American Telecaster and a Fender Mexican Stratocaster) but am not versed in music theory all that much; just play by ear and have never had formal lessons ..... regarding the WW 2 bomber art geetar, I just put on the A-D-G-B strings from a set of Fender Extra Super Lights (.008 - .038) and have fallen in love with the tuning of F#-C#-F#-A#, as pulled from a tutorial on the Justin Johnson web-site....

By the way, I learned to play guitar in prison and was taught by Billy Calvin Jones...you can read about Billy in David Crosby's (of CSN&Y) autobiography, "Long Time Gone" chapter 12 .... chapter 12 Crosby talks about his time as a Texas prison inmate... Crosby, Billy, & I were on the same cell block

Comment by Uncle John on December 27, 2016 at 11:19am

If you play six string, The DGBE is just like the small 4 on a six.  I use it a lot because I can play in many keys.   You can also change that to DGBD and play some slide and banjo chords.

GDGB you can pretty much play just like a IVI (GdG) 3 string, plus you get that low tone and plus you can finger chord C,Ds and Em.  Versatile.   Message me if you need those finger chord positions.

Comment by Bluesheart on December 27, 2016 at 10:34am

Awesome! Great choices of hardware and art etc, well done! By the way, my father was a WWII B24 Bomber Pilot.

Comment by 43rd Shamrock on December 27, 2016 at 8:27am

THANKS ... I shall try these later on this evening... and truly appreciate the 9.9999 score ! Have a great 2017 my friend...

Comment by Uncle John on December 27, 2016 at 3:25am

Try GDGB or DGBE?