Two questions for Rocket Mick:
Why do left and right get switched about in a mirror, but up and down stay the same?
and
How does one effect a pick slide on an electric guitar?
Prompt answers please - I am on stage in half an hour!
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On an electric guitar you need a gadget called appropriately enough a slide..... however if you want to show off you can use the following items......
A chunky metal ring
A bottle neck(ensure it has been ground down well)
A coin of some description( this tends to make a god awful sound so is best suited to thrash metal or punk bands.)
A zippo lighter(classic and amazing as the guy was so wasted he couldn't stand up but still belted out a fair tune.)
The mirror thing I dunno(but look forward to finding out.)
Thanks Minx, but I don't want to know how to play slide guitar. I want to do that cool thing that Barney does from time to time where he slides his pick down the E string of the guitar and it sounds cool.
The new boy tried it at Glastonbury and he fucked it up.
I want to get it right first time when the Aberdeen order are round for the footie next week 
A Diamond a Dozen wrote: Two questions for Rocket Mick:
Why do left and right get switched about in a mirror, but up and down stay the same?
Prompt answers please - I am on stage in half an hour!
I don't know if this will help, but... The reason why letters look reversed in a mirror is because you are presenting them to the mirror reversed. The reason why someone coming toward you can read the message on your T-shirt is because the letters on your T-shirt are reversed (from your perspective) when you wear it. If you printed the words on the T-shirt so that you could read them (from the inside of the shirt), the words would look reversed to an approaching person but they would look great in a mirror.
I think I've just fallen in love with Shellshocker!
That's beautiful.
EDIT: You deleted some of it! It was great how it was!
It's still fantastic though 
Minx wrote: Does Bernard use metal picks?????
No. Not sure how hard they are, but they're certainly plakky. Someone must have one that he's lobbed into the crowd at a gig.
Do you think it matters how hard it is?
I only have soft ones here.
A Diamond a Dozen wrote: I think I've just fallen in love with Shellshocker!
That's beautiful.
EDIT: You deleted some of it! It was great how it was!
It's still fantastic though
Thanks. :)
I didn't want to mess with peoples' heads too much with the long winded explanation though. You must have read it very quickly to catch that!!
A Diamond a Dozen wrote:
Minx wrote: Does Bernard use metal picks?????
No. Not sure how hard they are, but they're certainly plakky. Someone must have one that he's lobbed into the crowd at a gig.
Do you think it matters how hard it is?
I only have soft ones here.
Well I could be wrong on this one, but I thought only metal or glass would work as a slide on an electric guitar... 
perhaps if it is only for one note in one direction it doesn't, but your plectrum would definitely get fucked so have another one handy...
Shellshocker wrote:
I didn't want to mess with peoples' heads too much with the long winded explanation though. You must have read it very quickly to catch that!!
Catch it????? I even tried it......PROOF
and it's the webcam in the mirror
He slides the pick in his picking finger along the string in from the bottom towards the top nut. The result is a note that starts high and falls towards the open note.
He normally does it on Temptation.
Plain Lazy wrote:
Shellshocker wrote:
I didn't want to mess with peoples' heads too much with the long winded explanation though. You must have read it very quickly to catch that!!
Catch it????? I even tried it......PROOF
and it's the webcam in the mirror
Do we look in the photos normally just like other people see us but different than in the mirror, or is it I don't even know what I look like?
Plain Lazy wrote: Do we look in the photos normally just like other people see us but different than in the mirror, or is it I don't even know what I look like?
You don't know what you look like, since you're used to looking at yourself "backwards" relative to how other people see you. I like to think I'm much better looking from other peoples' perspectives. :)
RE: Bernard's slide technique....
I shall have to investigate on my dvds... usually I'm not watching his fingers....lol
I've always thought of him as more of a singer than guitarist....
(cue a big debate and cheeky comments.)
Hey - less of the baldy!
Might be, not sure. Had decided no, but now might have decided to think about changing my mind. Again.
Minx, you can hear what I'm on about HERE. Sadly (or maybe not) he's got his back to the camera.
He always does a pickslide there though - you can see it clearly on one of the DVDs.
If anyone's got a copy of that Jools Holland appearance from last June, Barney pulls it off lovely and Cunningham fucks it up.
And Shug - fuck off!
Shellshocker wrote:
Plain Lazy wrote: Do we look in the photos normally just like other people see us but different than in the mirror, or is it I don't even know what I look like?
You don't know what you look like, since you're used to looking at yourself "backwards" relative to how other people see you. I like to think I'm much better looking from other peoples' perspectives. :)
I understood the t shirt bit ,Shellshocker.But i got a bit lost with Maya's webcam experiment
Um, and you know what you look like from photographs ,surely?
Although even then you are still seeing yourself differently from how the rest of the world sees you,apparantly.Although they reckon in the minute you die one of the things you realise is how the rest of the human race has been seeing you all your life.Or something
[magenta]Missy Jem[/magenta] wrote: I have no reflection in a mirror :\ohwell:
Give it a clean. It's part of yer duties as a bird 
Shug wrote:
[magenta]Missy Jem[/magenta] wrote: I have no reflection in a mirror :\ohwell:
Give it a clean. It's part of yer duties as a bird
Remind me to have a word with your Mrs next time we meet, i think she might have something to say about that!!
