In my Speech class, I have to write an Informative Speech. I've decided my topic will be the History of guitars and how the guitar has progressed over time, etc. One requirement for this speech is credibility statements (quotes from other people or magazines or books)...so if you would please post anything and everything you know about guitars. That'll help a lot because I can't find very interesting facts online. Thanks

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i did an asignment about guitars ones, got me a 8,5 out of 10
but the bad thing is, i lost the paperwork, damn

but what worked well for me is showing extreme guitars, crazy shapes and stuff. teachers like it.
and dont just do it about electrical, use acoustics too.

good luck

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i think you should focus on like mayeba certain time periode of guitars or somethign cause i haev seen some huge ass books about the history of guitars and to do a paper on the whole history woud be kinda hard i think anyway

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If only I had access to a library....

Good idea doc about the shapes.

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yeah, when i showed them to the class and teacher they all laughed and stuff.
The teacher like it when u amuse the people

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Hey Doc, I'm doing a report Tuesday on Pantera for my fine arts class. I get to play a Pantera song for the
class, I think I'll play Revolution or 5 min. alone.

Regarding your guitar report m=l, just talk about the parts of the guitar and how to play it and stuff. And use a lot of info from the encyclopedia, that will help. Screw it...just talk about whatever you wanna talk about and know a lot about that's guitar-related.

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I saw your request and found reason to dig out a prized possession of mine. One of my golden treasures. An old Reader's Digest from June 1957, over a year before I was born, that has an article written by the man himself ---Les Paul. He was by far an incredible man-- more than just his developement of the guitar.

He was asked to play the harmonica when he was admiring a workman playing one. When he responded he couldn't do it that man told him that if he hung onto it, pretty soon he'd have it licked. He said ,"Don't say you can't till you prove you can't." That became his life motto. When he was young, his piano teacher told his mother to have him give up music.

He auditioned with his trio in an elevator for Fred Waring.
Les Paul was the innovative one to take each part of a piece,rhythm, melody, harmony,background, and record them overlapping to produce an orchestral sounding record.

Later in life,after a car accident, he had a badly broken right arm cast so he could play instead of having the amputation . It was broken in 3 places. As he was laying there thinking about the loss of a career he loved he thought back to what that ditch-digger had told him when he was a kid. He told his doctor ,"Let's not say we can't save the arm till we prove we can't. Okay?" His shattered elbow was rebuilt with a metal plate and permanently unbending. He waited a year and a half to see if he could play again. He wrote composed, experimented, and stored endless songs in his head.

He formed a new trio which was to prove he could still play. After a grueling schdule and lots of work he could play just like before the accident. It was then he added his wife's voice (Mary Ford) and his popularity increased as did the popularity of the electric guitar.

He heard of a fellow musician, a pianist, who had close to the same problem as he had due to a similar accident. he bombarded the man with letters urging his return to music. The man didn't think he could do it, but Les kept asking him if he'd proved he couldn't. Out of his hopelessness the man had a glowing future.

This is a direct quote of the last 2 paragraphs of the article:

"At some time or other life confronts us all with a stone wall --a task that seems impossible or a problem that appears insoluble. When it happens to you, don't say you can't til you prove you can't !
Thanks to the old ditch digger's advice, I've discovered that most stone walls will crumble if you just push them hard enough."
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I hope you could use some bits and pieces of this for your report. Or if nothing else, that some of you will be inspired by his words as I have. What an awesome guy!

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Whoa, well you wright an essay for me?

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Damn, I think I just did !!?? heehee What about?? Long-winded old ladies that are musiholics ? (I just made up that word !)

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wow, thanks A LOT L,B'XXX....good info. My speech needs to be at least a half hour so that bit will help very much.

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Hey, that's cool ! Glad it helped !




for us and Wally !!! (He's buying, but he doesn't know it )

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Are you sure the class wasnt laughing AT you?

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You're evil !! heehee


metal=life-- Lemme know what you get on your speech when you do it. (If it's embarrassing you can pm it to me.

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for english, my class did "senior memory books" and
one of the chapters was entitled "i'm really in love this time"
i wrot about my guitar, made it somewhat erotic, talking about
washing her and playing her g string, at the end of the page and a half
essay, i wrote, "man, i love that guitar!" i don't even think my teacher
read it, she just saw i did it, and gave me a 105.

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that was beautiful man...

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I think its WOman...




got an A Thanks for the info

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nice...nice....i'll drink to that

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Wally's mom does happy dance for the 'A' !!! COOL BEANS !!!!
Glad you guys read and liked it, too. I mean, Les was THE man !






for metal=life and Walpurgis !!

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