Hi all,
I'm Ludwig Von Beerhofen and I'll give this another try after receiving an e-mail from a concerned member (Thx Mr. Anonymous, just let me know if you want to see your name here and I'll change it,
). I really haven't introduced myself yet so let's try and restart from scratch here. After 10 years of struggling with a mild form of arthritis I decided to pick up guitar playing again and once again invested all I had in a new guitar because I read somewhere that movement was the best way to battle the desease. There were a few initial problems with it but the forum soon sorted things out for me and I became the proud owner of a 2011 Fall Limited Koa. I've been told that not everyone likes Koa tops as they tend to sound a bit dry. Well I like it dry, dry is what I need for my recordings and the guitar seemed a perfect pick, and it looked cool too. It's perhaps way to beautifull for an old ugly rocker like me but I was hoping it would deter people from looking at me and look more at the guitar, so they'd not notice how ugly I really am.
Perhaps some date may evolve from it or just a good conversation, it would all be fine with me as long as I don't have to be ashamed about my guitar. All I need now is a place where I can play, preferably without people walking out and with appropiate handholds to stay on my old tired legs while I play the stars from the sky, or whatever one would call it in real english.
You see I'm Dutch, old, decrepid, grumpy and a pain in the bottocks at times. Now most of this isn't a real problem for me, but being Dutch kind of bothers me. Why couldn't I have been Italian and goodlooking. Well, no use crying over spilled milk and I spill a lot of milk lately (arthritis, remember?).
I initially came here to find some help, which I got thx to this helpfull community. In return I thought I could perhaps liven this forum up a little, with some stupid annecdotes, funny stories and perhaps give a bit of help here and there if I can.
I'm not very good at any of it but I allways improve over time as practice makes perfect. You're ofcourse not obliged to read any of it either but if you don't ................ (<===== fill in what you like on the dots, just don't let us read it).
I'm not very good with english literature or a Taylor guitar so I hope people will take this into account, it's allready hard enough to type this stuff in my best possible english but I just don't understand slang, which can easily lead to misunderstandings and misinterpretations, and that's just not cool for an old decrepid grumpy fart who can hardly play a guitar.
If you think you play worse then me, which I don't think is at all possible, don't let it bother you, if you're young you'll have plenty of time to get where I am, and we can allways set up a competition and let the public decide.
I'll practise hard though and perhaps some day perhaps I'll let you listen to my rock version of 'Somewhere over the rainbow' or 'Fur Elise' or something, I allways liked those tunes. In fact there's hardly a tune that I don't like which is why I wanted to become a rockstar when I was still young, but as I got older I soon gave up on that, I just didn't have the looks and my 35 year old Ibanez simply doesn't cut it as a rock guitar for some reason. Oh, almost forgot, I couldn't get an interview with any of the record companies and Lord knows I really tried.
I hope I didn't offend too many people allready but rest asured I'll forgive you if you were at all, you're allowed to throw rotten apples at me when I have both my bodyguards by my side.
Thx for reading this and if you didn't read this, also thx. Hope we'll have a lot of fun inhere together, as fun is what keeps this world going.
Oh yes, and money, bling car, house on the bahamas, swimming pool, dog, but I don't have any of those so you better try and acquire those yourselves.
Merry tunes to all for now and beyond.
Ludwig.
but you can also call me old fart, grumps, pegleg, even ralph or whatever you feel is appropiate, as long as: it comes with a huge dose of humour, it's not meant denigrating and is within the reasonable boundaries of decency (you'll probably know where those are but if you don't we can discuss it in a P.M.)
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