Beat up cars with guitars!

First, I must apologize for my long absence from Katar's Place. I did not mean to be gone so long but my attention was occupied by other pursuits.

My attention was occupied by my new acquisition a Fender Telecaster guitar. I used to play acoustic guitar about 15 years ago but had to give it up and eventually sold the guitar off in order to pay my rent when I moved to Florida.

Flash forward to an evening in April of this year where my wife and I were at home listening to music coming from the Ipod piped through some portable speakers. I was playing fome Black 47 tracks for my wife from their latest album and we were talking about it. My wife then asked me what would it take to get me to start singing on a regular basis. As a little aside, my wife thinks that I have a good singing voice and she always wants me to sing but I am not of the same opinion. Anyway, we talk about that for a bit and I kind of brush it aside but my gears were starting to spin.

During the next couple of days I thought about singing and maybe picking up the guitar again. The question was what guitar would inspire me and I thought about what was my dream guitar and the answer was a 1950's Fender Telecaster Esquire just like the one Bruce Springsteen plays. Of course, I was not about to go out and by a vintage 50's Telecaster that would run me five or ten thousand dollars! I still wanted a Fender Telecaster; I mean Springsteen plays one! Not to mention Bob Dylan played one during the famous Rolling Thunder Review as well as the 1966 electric tour and do I have to mention that Johhny Cash played them throughout his recording career! I looked around and found a modestly priced Telecaster online and ordered it. This Telecaster was beautiful (click HERE if you want to see it) midnight wine maple. I got it home and began to tool around with it.

I thought that guitar playing is like learning to ride a bicycle, once you learn how to do it you don't forget. That was such a wrong assumption on my part that I am shocked it ever passed through my head. I found that I did not remember any chords and that my hands were so stiff that I could barely play simple single string practices. While I was struggling with the learning, I strayed from my midnight wine beauty and found another (click HERE). I had to have this guitar no matter what. I ordered it online and received and it was even more beautiful than the photos suggested.

I am now practicing for one hour each day and attend lessons once a week to learn the guitar again. I don't know how good I'll get but I want to be good enough to play and sing for my wife like she asked me to do. As a matter of fact she has my first set list planned as we speak.