a new template of electric guitar

[teddy]

I am so relieved John (about the ducks )

teddy

[John Watt]

Yeah! There might have been no ducks involved, but neither was my domain.
Sorry for misreading you. George Gruhn's domain is my favorite for guitars.

Just to show how acoustic I am, I was sitting in a music store when an elderly lady came in.
She said her husband had died a few years ago and she felt it was time to sell his guitar.
The store owner asked me to walk back to her house and have a look, or bring it back.
It was a 1934 Martin that looked like a Roy Rogers guitar, not the biggest.
She had the case, strap and receipt, and I explained what she had. She knew, but she also
knew her husband, saying if she got back the purchase price he would want the guitar played.
She asked $200. I phoned a high school friend, editor of the paper, just down the street.
He hung up. I walked down and said it again, and we drove back together. He was freakin',
and gave her an extra hundred. That was in the early seventies, and I'm visiting tomorrow.

It's eider that, or I feel down.

[teddy]

As Long as you don't duck the issue John.

teddy

[John Watt]

Teddy! There is something new in the world of ducks to report back on. The first place along the Welland canal where geese, Canada Geese, mingled with humans was at a fries wagon that opened in the summer, right by the canal, in St. Catharines. Seagulls too. Gradually, their presence was made all along the canal as the recreational path was extended. But this year, for the first time, ducks are coming up and mingling with humans, and it's happening in downtown Welland at Merritt Park, speeder's park to locals. I thought someone was teasing me about life on the eider side, but a woman who was feeding the geese says the ducks are even more friendly. In European movie scenes, it seems that birds flying up in town squares or milling about is an ordinary thing.
Over here it's the squirrels who are aggresive, or at least insistent on their right to co-exist. Squirrels will jump on and off you in parks, and raccoons scratch up my leg along the Niagara River when I'm out on a bike-hike. I live for moments of contact like that.

[teddy]

See, my plan is working.

Canada geese are a bit of a nuisance over here. They tend to foul the ground more than any other bird. And the large flocks can crop an awful lot of grass, Sometimes a problem for the sheep farmers.

teddy

[John Watt]

You know Canada geese. I avoid their areas in the dark, not wanting to step on those green, almost hot-dog size droppings.
I know they're considered a nuisance and some European countries cull them.
Around here, a lot of people watch them and say "I could eat one of those".
But it's cormorants who have the reputation as the foulest bird. They even eventually kill the trees they roost in.
I've seen alpacas, llamas, reindeer, caribou and emus here in the Niagara Peninsula, out there on bike-hikes,
but no sheep. No sheep at all, and sheep-herding, being a shepherd, just sounds so nice.

That cougar people had doubts about until it attacked a local horse is avoiding me, also so nice.
The coyotes who have bred with big dogs, getter bigger and killing a human in Canada for the first time?
When I hear them at night I go the other way.

[teddy]

John
Sounds like you live a lovely life

teddy

[John Watt]

I don't know if lovely is living to make contact with creatures out in nature,
but it's a wondrous feeling.

I'm hot about something for my guitar for the first time in a long time,
now that it's almost refinished.
The submarine that was decommissioned came through the canal to Port Maitland,
which is part of my bike-hiking destinations. I know the business that's scrapping it,
so I'm hoping to ride out there and get in and get some wire I can use for grounding,
thinking it was in the deeps, probably running beside some whales somewhere.
Now I'll really be looking for someone to hump-back me up on bass.

[John Watt]

This is a thread update. The videos have been deleted from You Tube.
While I paid a master photographer to help me, he really disappointed me.
I didn't know his political and criminal associations would cause him to work against me.
There was footage I didn't want, expressly stated I didn't want, and my reasons are more actual today.
Without any way to edit that footage, I have to delete the entire video.
I'll be taking the original discs in to a new computer expert, hoping to restore what I can.

But better than that, criminal activities against me have subsided in my new, government sponsored,
very secure and comfortable apartment. My instruments and equipment have recovered from previous damages,
and I'll be working to finish my semi-solid-body beginning next week.

I consider publishing here first as my international debut, and will be the same when a new video is ready.
I've got a new riff and song for six string guitar, getting electric-symphonic with it for my next musical experience.
Hopefully, and this is not "please be forewarned" because of inventive electronic excesses,
you'll never look at guitars the same way ever again.

[teddy]

Look forward to it John

teddy

[John Watt]

I'm looking at this after a long time, and am willing to confess my excesses.
I'm not trying to trip over anyone here, being serious from the start.
But a lot of my brewtal rocktalk is an influence I share, but didn't generate.
For instance, saying you'll never look at guitars the same way again might sound outrageous, even outlandish,
but with all the other new features, very subtle, I'm still playing left-handed with the bass on the bottom.
Admit it! When's the last time you saw someone like that, and have that image of guitarists in your mind?
It took me almost a year to get used to looking at my first lefty body with a right handed neck,
until all the new guitars in music stores started looking upside-down to me.
I am really, really, looking forward to it.
You should be afraid of seeing life as a lefty too, if you're not born into it. Jus'typin'.