janeray1940
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+2. It's just a sweet and surprising instrument and not as easy as many guitarists would like to think !
Um, wait. It's supposed to be easy??
Last summer I saw a bumper sticker that that made me laugh.
"My daughter is 'alternative', just like all her friends."
I think the minute the word "alternative" entered the vocabulary to describe music, and to some extent, lifestyle, it completely and totally lost its meaning. I came of age in the early 1980s punk rock scene and I remember when restaurants wouldn't seat us when we had magenta or green hair; when my double-pierced left ear was downright shocking; and when tattoos were considered extreme. I suspect that the generation before me has similar stories with regard to their long hair and such - actually, I'm old enough to remember the comments some adults made toward the "hippies" when I was a kid ("is that a boy or a girl?" being the main one, said toward males with long hair - hey, guys like Tiny Tim!). Now you can get all of these looks and more at the mall...