Australia's former Prime Minister has Trump pegged for what he really is... A wimp that idolises despots

VonBonfire said:
I know but I'm saying people do actually do that kind of work here in Florida and other parts of the deep south. Obviously it's not everyone. There are plenty of wee men needing testosterone therapy that would be horrified by such a lifestyle but sissies are everywhere these days. Look in the mirror!
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Mate I do my own mechanical work, make furniture and guitars, panel beat, spray paint, do a lot of my own electrical work, plumbing, bricklaying/retaining walls. I use double edged razors and straight razors. Ride motorcycles. Have a garage full of machinery. It's a very rare day I get any one to do anything for me.

This is all while you live in your mother's basement. So go back to your Mum's basement and play with your Barbie Dolls
 
Thumbpicker said:
Mate I do my own mechanical work, make furniture and guitars, panel beat, spray paint, do a lot of my own electrical work, plumbing, bricklaying/retaining walls. I use double edged razors and straight razors. Ride motorcycles. Have a garage full of machinery. It's a very rare day I get any one to do anything for me.

This is all while you live in your mother's basement. So go back to your Mum's basement and play with your Barbie Dolls
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Now you're trying to prove your manliness? That's seems kinda homo.. I don't imagine with your attitude you can get anyone to help you with much. No one wants to risk angering a rabid koala short dude.

There are no basements in Florida my man so if I was still living with my mom it would be at ground level, lol.
 
Thumbpicker said:
I'm not upset at all. I'm just dishing it back. It's like sport.
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It is sport. I actually don't harbor any ill will towards you although you have been a little left of center with the tv news provoking your TDS. I think the guy sucks too but I just say "he sucks" and move along instead of writing pages about it.
 
Thumbpicker said:
He's ok but he's rabid about guns so his comment about me not knowing Americans and guns is total bs. He's so invested he'd throw away a years long friendship if I said anything negative about his precious fucking AK or tactical shotgun or whatever. So when he says I don't know Americans take it with a grain of salt.
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Rabid about guns? :rolleyes:

And dude, it's true, you don't know shit about America or the 2A or the people who value it.


And Beater, I'll tell you the same thing I told you when you were the previous version of yourself. Fuck off.
 
Thumbpicker said:
My fingers are not short and you know that.
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Thumbpicker said:
My hands aren't that short. I would have said they are normal.

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That thing looks like a baritone on you!

If you can pick like that for 3 hours solid you'd have a good paying retirement job in the Austin area. You'd probably need to be a little more chill with the gun and Trump talk and you'd have to stop at cavenders for boots, hat, and western belt first though so a small investment would be required.
 
The Real Beater said:
The Real Beater and Little Floydy were fighting for flies
Beater gave Floydy a pair of black eyes
Now said Beater do you want any more?
No said Floydy my eyes are too sore!!
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I'm guessing you aren't going to be here very long again. Blessings Donnie, hope you are doing aight man.
 
VonBonfire said:
I was just messing with you. I loved that video. I'm waiting for your version of Amos Moses now. You got the Chet-Jerry happening in a big way. Tone was great too. When you get to the states stop by you can plug into my Twin Reverbs instead of kicking my ass, lol.
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This one is about as Texas as it comes



Here's another Jerry Reed one...

 
VonBonfire said:
Nice. I checked out your "Jerry's Breakdown" live cover. Nice picking. Man that Gretsch sounds good.
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Thanks - I was still really learning Thumbpicking when I did Jerry's Breakdown but I picked hard ones to bring me up to speed quicker. I had played for years - just not thumbpicking. It is a bit different in both the left and right hands...
 
Thumbpicker said:
Thanks - I was still really learning Thumbpicking when I did Jerry's Breakdown but I picked hard ones to bring me up to speed quicker. I had played for years - just not thumbpicking. It is a bit different in both the left and right hands...
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So you were just flat picking previously? Or just using fingers?

I flat picked for a long time, never was any damn good with it other than being pretty good with funk rhythm playing. Right hand was an achilles heel. I really wanted to learn acoustic fingerpicking but thought my hands were too clumsy to make it happen. About that time I moved to Nashville and caught a bunch of pointers off guys, because everyone there can play like that (almost) and learned a bunch of John Hurt material. About a decade later after watching a bunch of Freddie King and picking up a Gibson ES it dawned on me that I could use my thumb/finger picks on electric too so I have played that way ever since. Can't say I would ever go back. It just suits me more. I can get more soul out of them. The only thing I lost was tremolo picking.

I use a National NP-2 on my index for electric work and a 2nd one on my middle when I'm playing acoustic. I found for blues and RnB it helped give me a more definitive style than your typical flat picking worn out sunburst strat guy blues rock playing.
 
VonBonfire said:
So you were just flat picking previously? Or just using fingers?

I flat picked for a long time, never was any damn good with it other than being pretty good with funk rhythm playing. Right hand was an achilles heel. I really wanted to learn acoustic fingerpicking but thought my hands were too clumsy to make it happen. About that time I moved to Nashville and caught a bunch of pointers off guys, because everyone there can play like that (almost) and learned a bunch of John Hurt material. About a decade later after watching a bunch of Freddie King and picking up a Gibson ES it dawned on me that I could use my thumb/finger picks on electric too so I have played that way ever since. Can't say I would ever go back. It just suits me more. I can get more soul out of them. The only thing I lost was tremolo picking.

I use a National NP-2 on my index for electric work and a 2nd one on my middle when I'm playing acoustic. I found for blues and RnB it helped give me a more definitive style than your typical flat picking worn out sunburst strat guy blues rock playing.
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Flat picking. I had no idea what to do with fingers or what notes a thumbpick even played vs what the fingers played... or which string which finger was meant to get. Now it's all very obvious - like everything is easy when you know what's going on. In the left hand when I was a teenager a jazz guitarist once told me to never hook my thumb over. That's cowboy chords! :) However for thumbpicking you really need to do that to get some of the chord voicings.

I think once you get used to a thumbpick you can do just about anything with it - right down to flatpicking. I would say I never strum the guitar with a flatpick - that doesn't work real well but really "strummy guitar" isn't very great guitar playing anyway if people were being honest. It's ok for accompanying vocals I guess.

It's not bad for some electric blues either because you can really hook into the notes with your right hand fingers and give it some twang. Albert Collins for example but yes Mississippi John Hurt or Rev Gary Davis type stuff is nice too.
 
VonBonfire said:
So you were just flat picking previously? Or just using fingers?

I flat picked for a long time, never was any damn good with it other than being pretty good with funk rhythm playing. Right hand was an achilles heel. I really wanted to learn acoustic fingerpicking but thought my hands were too clumsy to make it happen. About that time I moved to Nashville and caught a bunch of pointers off guys, because everyone there can play like that (almost) and learned a bunch of John Hurt material. About a decade later after watching a bunch of Freddie King and picking up a Gibson ES it dawned on me that I could use my thumb/finger picks on electric too so I have played that way ever since. Can't say I would ever go back. It just suits me more. I can get more soul out of them. The only thing I lost was tremolo picking.

I use a National NP-2 on my index for electric work and a 2nd one on my middle when I'm playing acoustic. I found for blues and RnB it helped give me a more definitive style than your typical flat picking worn out sunburst strat guy blues rock playing.
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You can even do stuff like JJ Cale with it... I stuffed up the tone on my Strat in this recording but I played it well enough I think. Note for note. I had already done the take - so I couldn't be bothered redoing it. Lazy bastard I am.

 
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