Boring Old Guy

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

 

ha ha cool pic!

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Sorry about taking attention away from you in the pic dude 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

 

Oh god...

Not another Springsteen fan...


*cries*


(Kool pic though. )

 

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?*

 

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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