Boring Old Guy

[Bend]

Hi this is me...from the Highlands of Scotland. Best accoustic player in Britain even if I say so myself. Photographer caught me after a heavy night on the booze though...sorry. lol

Ben x

[ZePpeLinA]

ha ha cool pic! :)

[Bend]

Awww did you really have to laugh??? That's me got my complex back again. I'm away to dye my hair. lol. Only jokin'. Thank you for at least not calling me too old or referring me to the geriatric section. Thank you.

Love
Ben
xxx

[Xiola]

Nice pic! What sort of stuff do you play?

[Bend]

Nice pic! What sort of stuff do you play?
Thank you. You name it I play it...but I prefer to write and perform my own stuff. I love Neil young, Bruce Spingsteen, Keane and Chilli's but I really prefer to do my own thing. Which with any luck you should be hearing on a radio near you soon. Well Autumn/winter.

Ben

[Welf]

OMG!!!!!!!! What an ugly looking creature... Where hell did they dig you up from mate? From some deep dark dingy deep lagoon or something..... Cripes... well I'll be darned.... so the Loch Ness monster aint no fairy tale after all eh....

I'm panting and gasping and choking on me banana sandwich... but seriously... not bad at all and you look like you're a really nice bloke and lotsa fun too... Though you could do with a few transplants in places but what the heck... who cares... old and ugly and grey and boring is plain wonderful...

So yeah... what do you play... please do tell....

Welf

[Bend]

It's that bloody dog that stalks me through cyberspace!!!! Down girl down!!!

Oh Welf I can see you and I's gonna be doin' a lot more talkin' than usual.

Okay let's get the ground rules straight...I aint old (Too much) I'm the best musician (Vocalist/rythmn guitarist) in Britain and I'm on my way to fame and riches. I know that's a path you'll never tread. But hey dogs wander, dogs stray, they always lose their way!! lol

Here's staring at you kid!!!!

PS Xiola tell me there's an Aussie forum where I can drop the dog off???

Ben
xxx

[Welf]

http://www.hipforums.com/forums/images/smilies/embarassed.gif Owhhh geezuz there Bend... ya don't have to be that horrible... I was really nice to you telling you the truth and all that ..... and all you do is get your knickers bunched up in one big fat knot..... and.. and.... just because I'm a dog doesn't mean you have to take it out on me you know...

So g'day to you too sir and may we meet again later... gotta go and check out the rest of this joint now... pretty mad place eh?

Welf

[Bend]

Aye good day to you too. Just be careful where you're steppin' out there. If you need any help you know where I am. I know how difficult technology can be for you old 'uns.


Love
Ben
xxx

[roly]

you look like a man with many stories to tell! tell me some stories
roly.xxx

[Bend]

you look like a man with many stories to tell! tell me some stories
roly.xxx
Ah Roly every craggy feature, every furrowed brow, every grey hair is a story, how many can a man tell in a day?

Suffice it to say that I have climbed the highest mountain and fallen into the deepest gorge. But here I am, finally climbed out and the world looks just the same. I got me some music to make!!!! *Manic laughter*

Ben

[roly]

Ah Roly every craggy feature, every furrowed brow, every grey hair is a story, how many can a man tell in a day?

Suffice it to say that I have climbed the highest mountain and fallen into the deepest gorge. But here I am, finally climbed out and the world looks just the same. I got me some music to make!!!! *Manic laughter*

Ben


do you ever feel that as much as ur music means to you...it may be worthless to others...coz i feel that about my music and poetry...if so how do you carry on...and if not....how do u keep positive?

peace, roly.xxx

[Bend]

Ah Roly me lad...I got a wardrobe full of stories (All finished and waiting to be published) I got a computer full of songs (All waiting and ready to be aired)...but the public aint ready. Most important of all...I aint ready. There comes a time in everyone's life when they know the time is right. Everything up till then is hard work and misery. Coz you know you've got it in you and you gotta get it out. Patience is the answer. How many poets, bands, singers, writers have all come and gone in an instant...because they had not amassed the work to follow up success with. You got to have the back catalogue before you even start. When it's ready and you've got a few years worth tucked away then you can pounce.

Your time will come......just needs patience. Listen to the wind and when it blows fair and in your favour, fly with it.

Ben

[roly]

Ah Roly me lad...I got a wardrobe full of stories (All finished and waiting to be published) I got a computer full of songs (All waiting and ready to be aired)...but the public aint ready. Most important of all...I aint ready. There comes a time in everyone's life when they know the time is right. Everything up till then is hard work and misery. Coz you know you've got it in you and you gotta get it out. Patience is the answer. How many poets, bands, singers, writers have all come and gone in an instant...because they had not amassed the work to follow up success with. You got to have the back catalogue before you even start. When it's ready and you've got a few years worth tucked away then you can pounce.

Your time will come......just needs patience. Listen to the wind and when it blows fair and in your favour, fly with it.

Ben


i like the way u speak... u make things sound magical...pity i don't believe in magic! roly.xxx

[Power_13]

Sorry about taking attention away from you in the pic dude :p but I noticed your acoustic's fingerboard...is it maple? I've never seen an acoustic with a maple fingerboard...


But yeah, cool pic :)

[Bend]

Sorry about taking attention away from you in the pic dude :p but I noticed your acoustic's fingerboard...is it maple? I've never seen an acoustic with a maple fingerboard...


But yeah, cool pic :)
It is indeed maple and the body is Silkwood. I had it made for me by Vintage because although their bottom end guitars are way cheap and sometimes (Depends) nasty their top end guitars are a little bit special. I just love the feel of the Maple and the silkwood makes it so light. It's a real joy to play!

Only problem though is that the fretboard is the actual pick up (Active fretboard) which means there has to be a 9v battery in the bottom of it. But it's a real bummer if it starts to fade during a gig coz the battery is wearing down. They can be changed in less than five seconds because of the way it has been designed but it still causes me heart attacks when mid song everything from the guitar starts to fade awayyyyyyyyyyyyy. lol

Ben

[jailmate]

[QUOTE=Bend]Hi this is me...from the Highlands of Scotland. Best accoustic player in Britain even if I say so myself. Photographer caught me after a heavy night on the booze though...sorry. lol

Hay Ben, grow uhr hair and smoke pot, then try again.

duh real hip foruhm Hair

[Alomiakoda]

Oh god...

Not another Springsteen fan...


*cries*


(Kool pic though. :p :) )

[Bend]

Oh god...

Not another Springsteen fan...


*cries*


(Kool pic though. :p :) )
Err I should qualify that......only pre 1980's springsteen. Early stuff...none of that Dancin' in the Dark crap. When he wrote opera that's when I liked him.

Love
Ben
xxx *Am I forgiven?*

[Welf]

Bend
Hi this is me...from the Highlands of Scotland. Best accoustic player in Britain even if I say so myself. Photographer caught me after a heavy night on the booze though...sorry. lol

jailmate
Hay Ben, grow uhr hair and smoke pot, then try again.

Stuff a rabbit and cook a stew jailmate... Ben who calls himself.... Boring old guy can't even get his lingo right.. so then how the hell can you expect him to get the rest of it right eh? He calls himself a guy in a UK Forum and a guy is the ropes you use to tie your tent down with...

Oi there Ben.. be a bonzer bloke... get with it and let it all hang out mate... you'd look really truelly kewl in one of them piggy tails and some fluff pasted on your face in the right spots. ....:&

Welf
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[Bend]

Bend
Hi this is me...from the Highlands of Scotland. Best accoustic player in Britain even if I say so myself. Photographer caught me after a heavy night on the booze though...sorry. lol

jailmate
Hay Ben, grow uhr hair and smoke pot, then try again.

Stuff a rabbit and cook a stew jailmate... Ben who calls himself.... Boring old guy can't even get his lingo right.. so then how the hell can you expect him to get the rest of it right eh? He calls himself a guy in a UK Forum and a guy is the ropes you use to tie your tent down with...

Oi there Ben.. be a bonzer bloke... get with it and let it all hang out mate... you'd look really truelly kewl in one of them piggy tails and some fluff pasted on your face in the right spots. ....:&

Welf
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Hi Welf...what would an aussie know aboute culture then eh? Where you got your laptop? Were ya sittin' in the dunny when ya typed that??? Now you and me go back a long way Welf (Sometimes I wish it was longer) but if you continue to stalk me through cyberspace and demand I redo my appearance coz I'm an ugly git I'm gonna have to get an, an, an, injection!!!! Is that it? No an injunction!!! Yeah then we'll see who's dunny walls crumble first. Stone the crows Welf I won a beautiful baby contest when I was 2. What you won? Sheep rearer of 73?

Love ya too kid
Ben
xxx *Don't wet your knickers when ya read this take deep breaths and when you're ready to spell properly ya can come back at me*

[Welf]

Bend
Hi Welf...what would an aussie know aboute culture then eh? Where you got your laptop? Were ya sittin' in the dunny when ya typed that??? Now you and me go back a long way Welf (Sometimes I wish it was longer) but if you continue to stalk me through cyberspace and demand I redo my appearance coz I'm an ugly git I'm gonna have to get an, an, an, injection!!!! Is that it? No an injunction!!! Yeah then we'll see who's dunny walls crumble first. Stone the crows Welf I won a beautiful baby contest when I was 2. What you won? Sheep rearer of 73? *Don't wet your knickers when ya read this take deep breaths and when you're ready to spell properly ya can come back at me*

Cripes.. you finally finished chucking ya wobbly there mate? .... sorry.... wrong person.. I wouldn't know you from all the other shorn sheep in the paddock... frig.... the nerve of you thinking I was some cyber stalking dog... don't even own a laptop nor do I ever care to...

Anyway... I reckon no matter how much you justify that Bruce Springsteen wailer... as far as I'm concerned... he's ok if you into that middle of the road, happy clappy geezuz freak type of sounding music... Give me a bit of alternative, rock, doof trance, cajun, Perry Como and industrial metal and I'm a dancin and a smilin in me dog cage... :&

Welf
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[Bend]

Cripes.. you finally finished chucking ya wobbly there mate? .... sorry.... wrong person.. I wouldn't know you from all the other shorn sheep in the paddock... frig.... the nerve of you thinking I was some cyber stalking dog... don't even own a laptop nor do I ever care to...

Anyway... I reckon no matter how much you justify that Bruce Springsteen wailer... as far as I'm concerned... he's ok if you into that middle of the road, happy clappy geezuz freak type of sounding music... Give me a bit of alternative, rock, doof trance, cajun, Perry Como and industrial metal and I'm a dancin and a smilin in me dog cage... :&

Welf
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Okay let's get something clear here dear. You finally finished chucking ya wobbly there mate? If it's not too much to ask could we possibly translate random statements like the one highlighted into English? As for my musical preferences I was aked to give some off the top of my head. By suggesting that I like Springsteen does not imply that I like all of Springsteen's work. I feel he cheapened himself when he moved from Operatic story telling to Verse/chorus/verse/chorus.

Now as for your tastes in music, may I say that should we ever meet upon your shores or mine, I will be more than happy to give you a little industrial metal. Exactly where it shall be embedded I have not yet decided. But I shall Welf, I shall!!!

Love
Ben
xxx

[Welf]

Bend
Now as for your tastes in music, may I say that should we ever meet upon your shores or mine, I will be more than happy to give you a little industrial metal. Exactly where it shall be embedded I have not yet decided. But I shall Welf, I shall!!!

Sunshine... you're just merely clutching at straws here... I didn't ask for a long winded chucking a wobbly again type of speel from you to justify your love of Bruce Springsteen's middle of the road, happy clappy geezuz freak type of sounding music... It's ok... I understand... truely I do... some just don't have the taste in music it takes... and you just happened to be one who aint got it... not entirely your fault... it's all in the genes you know... something to do with that nasty looking bulge...

Oh Scotsman, the only industrial metal you're capable of giving off with your boring old codger smile, clean shaven face and short hair is giving me a bit of a clout over the head with an iron bar and then yup... you'll certainly be creating lotsa metal music in my head... :&

And... before I take myself and my dog breath way... by the way... did anyone ever tell you how cute you look when you get pissed off and all hot and fluffy under the collar?

Welf
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[Power_13]

Bend isn't the only Bruce Springsteen fan here...there's also me and a few others. So he's in good company.

I also agree with the pre-1980s Bruce being the best. Looks like you and me are gonna get along, Mr Bend :):p

[Bend]

Good man! Good Girl? Good God I don't know. But if you're into Springiness we'll do just fine!!! Can't beat Born to Run, Thunder Road, Jungleland, Oh I could go on and on....Good to meet ya....not like that Aussie Welf who just haunts me.

Love
Ben
xxx

[Paul]

You look sort of familiar to me, maybe you just have one of those faces.

[Bend]

You look sort of familiar to me, maybe you just have one of those faces.
Depends I've been famous, then not famous, then famous, then not famous. Now I'm just infamous.

Love
Ben
xxx *I never forget a girl I've slept with but I've never slept with a guy so it can't be that*

[roly]

Depends I've been famous, then not famous, then famous, then not famous. Now I'm just infamous.

Love
Ben
xxx *I never forget a girl I've slept with but I've never slept with a guy so it can't be that*


yeh i recognise you too.....

[Bend]

You look sort of familiar to me, maybe you just have one of those faces.

You are correct Paul I do have 'one of those faces' but that could mean one of those faces that looks like a Baboon's arse.....I just like to think it's mine, Baboon's arse or not. I'm stuck with it. Although it is variable depending on the amount of alcohol I consume.

Ben ;)

[Claire]

Good man! Good Girl? Good God I don't know. But if you're into Springiness we'll do just fine!!! Can't beat Born to Run, Thunder Road, Jungleland, Oh I could go on and on....Good to meet ya....not like that Aussie Welf who just haunts me.

Love
Ben
xxx
It's a girl:p

[showmet]

baaaaaaaah!

[Power_13]

It's a girl:p
No it's not :p. Not the last time I checked, anyway *has a feel* yep, still there.

[Bend]

baaaaaaaah!
Hey I hope that's not a reference to my sexual peccadillo's. I can't help it. Look out my window......there's nothing but sheep for miles and miles. Well there's cows too but they run fast.

Ben

[Bend]

Jeeez that was me! No I didn't die...I've been in hospital for 6 bloody months!!! I'm back, I think.

Ben

[Paul]

6 months? That is a long time to be unwell ... I hope you are recovered from whatever it was.

[moominmamma]

Jeeez that was me! No I didn't die...I've been in hospital for 6 bloody months!!! I'm back, I think.

BenGood I'm glad you're back....looks like I may have found someone on the UK forums who is actually older than , hmm looks a bit more closely at your picture...or maybe around the same age as me:)

And everyone else is right, you do look awfully familiar

[SweetLorraine]

wow what a fab picture!!

The house looks fab too!!

[jesikhaviolet]

well i'm off up to scotland to compete with you! i'm the best :P