Gave my money all to you, took my watch and pawned it, too.

You're baloney without the mayo.

Here's the way the licensing works ... If you write a song, nobody can record your song before you do without your permission. But, once the song is recorded, they can get what's called a 'compulsory license', and they can record the tune, but they have to pay you royalties.

Guitar playing, as currently understood, has more to do with sports than it does to do with music. It's an Olympic challenge type of situation. The challenges are in the realm of speed, redundancy, choreography, and grooming... ...clouds of educated gnat-notes.

The ONLY thing that seems to band all nations together, is that their governments are universally bad.

Without "Louie Louie" a symphony is not quite so grand.

If you really love guitar, you're going to spend every waking hour stroking the thing.