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I used to play a lot in highschool to get my mind of jackasses who made fun of me. Never was a strong believer in fistfight so i took my anger and sadness to my guitar.

It always was a relief and sometimes I did shed a tear while playing. I never stopped playing since. Bad and good days alike.

What I suggest is play your guitar. If you come up with something that you like, record it. Play it to yourself while writting down words that come up to you when you think about your situation. With these words, start building lyrics. Don't think about rimes, just write them down.

When you feel good about your lyrics, sing them. Even if you don't think you have a great voice. It's your music with your lyrics, they're yours to play and sing.

Sing them with all your heart, let the pain go...

You'll see how good you'll feel after. That's music for your soul :)

Probably the reason why so many of you (and me) turn/have turned to playing guitar to express emotions is that music is the most individual thing on earth, even more so than peoples personalities or philosophical views. When people have strong emotions that they just need to get out they usually turn first to what they feel expresses themselves the best.

just a little theory of mine.

Ed: I know this is hard to believe, but America isn't like the movies. People don't run around with machine guns shooting everything up, and cops usually don't shoot people at the drop of a hat.

In spite of what you've heard, guns are used most often in self defense.

yeah... I just really wanted to hear that from americans, not a rich brit who'd gone over on concorde, and stayed in a 5 star hotel... It's just ridiculous figures like 20,000 poeple die from gun violence a year... The other thing that added to it were the kids that came over to our school (when I used to go to school), and they've all got guns! They did their gun safty test when they were in the 6th grade! They were abotu 17, 18 and were shocked that most poeople had been drinking scince 14, but they didn't get how alien guns are to us... I mean the only poeple who have them are farmers, and they have shot guns, and it takes months to get a licence...
Sorry I shouldn't really take heed of steroetypes (I dont to any other culture, well except to other brits, but nothing serious.. maybe It's cos I see as americans as our wierd cousins)...
Ponyone: um... Well any of the girl's male... no why be sexist, any of her relatives could have pulled a gun on ya... we hear stories of how kids bring guns to school ( but dont actauly use them)... Overhere, some one gives me verbal, I dont care, they get physical I get physical, and this puts people off, noone wants a black eye, or teeth missing... Now having some with a gun around harrasing poeple, that's a nightmare. I'm a very calm person, but I wont take being smacked like an animal, so where does that lead the sitaution? .. do you see where I'm comming from.... Still, I'm sure our bone idle press who likes to make a mountain out of a mole hill (cos it certainly fills the pages/ minutes quicker and easier than proper journalism) has done it again...

Originally posted by Christoph
In spite of what you've heard, guns are used most often in self defense.

Around here they're mostly used for target shooting and hunting (and unfortunately, poaching).

It's not uncommon to see cars and trucks left running here in the winter months while the person who parked it pays for their gas and/or shops.

Now there's small town America for you.

I thought you were canadain? (I mean, your thin! Clearly not american... You've got a lacross stick, doesnt get more french candain that!... Smile poeple it's just a joke!:)... your band were wrapped up in a candain flag in one of the photos, I think it was who of the month... and I thought your site mentioned your original band memebers going off to join the canadain air force ... I may be confusing you with some else here)....

Nope, flag was a joke, and it was the USAF (actually, two of my friends/former "bandmates" (like they actually did much of anything) are in the "Chair Force" as one of them calls it. Oddly, he's the one now deployed to some unknown location I guess is either somewhere in Pakistan or Tajikistan.

Not that Vermont is very far from Canada, I can be in Montreal or Quebec City just as quickly as I can be in NYC or Boston.

I lived in scotland for a few years, and the poeple way up north are really nice... the problem is, you dont really relize how depressing it is to such dull weather... hmmm... I think our steroe type of americans not being very sharp (which isnt true after having talked to poeple here), is becuase of your tv, it works on the principal of more vewiers the better, so alot of the intelligent gags and parts are taken out, and dumed down.. except for the old simpsons and futurerama, which I find quite funny...The harry potter film, over there they changed it from philosipher's to sourcerer's stone.... I mean that's pretty insulting, I mean why dont they just go the whole way cahnge the name to BURGER, or Fries, or Milkshake... lol...
(oh by the way, I watch aljazeera in arabic, and it's not anti-semetic, It's very honest, it get alot of bad press becuase everyone has their own adjenda and the truth tends to get in the way, I mean there are a lot of BS translations about, and I'm pretty sure it's delibrate... there are some that are though)...

ED: I completely agree with you about popular American TV. I avoid it like the plague. All those so-called sitcoms and comedies (I use that word very loosely because most shows aren't in the least bit funny to an intelligent audience) are so inane and far from everyday reality that they're insulting. They broadcast to the world the message that all Americans are basically uncooth morons.

. . . not the message we necessarily want to be sending.

Just a point of interest- all military weapons designed for use by an individual are sold to the general public. That means that a psycopath with $ can get a 50 caliber sniper rifle with a 3 mile range any time he wants.

that's the kind of thing i'm talkin about... over here, the worst thing you could get legally is a croos bow.... but, really, I like americans... they do have their bad habits, but they're sooo much more positive (sometimes in a lovely naive way), and they dont talk down to you, and their multicultural society goes un-noticed... It's hard to explain... I'm orignally an arab, so I'm coloured... over here I'm aware of that, I dont get any shtik, but I'm aware (oh dont get me wrong, poeple here are great, and I've made great freinds)... in the US, it's nothing (well, in most places... I'm not talking about them there weird southern places)... So it does have it's major good points ... Plus everything is soooo much cheaper over there, I mean pedals that would cst $140 (£100) would start at £140!... any way, better go and something constructive....

Originally posted by PonyOne
I noticed that too when I was over there, that basically everyone switches around the dollar symbol with the pound symbol and leaves the numbers the same. So if you go to a McDonald's in Stratford and get a #4, it'll cost you 4.95 pounds, and in the US it'd be $4.95... not fair, as that adds to about like $8.50... and it's a nasty-ass McDonald's burger no matter where it's made.

if your getting charged $4.95 for a #4, then your gettin ripped off man. I work at a Mcdonalds, and a number 4 there (double quarter pounder with cheese) is $4.15.

ive been sort of depressed about things lately. i wrote sort of an escape song, and it really helps. i posted part of it under alternative.. i didnt really know what category it belongs under. nothing brings out the meaningful music more than strong emotions whatever they may be.

Which is why I tend to avoid playing thrash-metal kind of stuff. I really don't need to be in a space where that mirrors my mood. And people don't want to be anywhere around me then, either.

Originally posted by Lordathestrings
Which is why I tend to avoid playing thrash-metal kind of stuff. I really don't need to be in a space where that mirrors my mood. And people don't want to be anywhere around me then, either.

EXACTLY my thoughts.