The party is going well, now time to get out the old acoustic guitar part 2

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usually I hate when this happens, but this weekend something changed. After the rehearsal dinner i was at everyone went back to this beach house and continued partying. Well out came the acoustic guitar, some random dude. Next thing I know he breaks into "Your Love" by the outfield. It was an amazing slow version and for some reason i loved it. it may have been the beer...but I am dying to hear it again. I admit, this was a great moment in acoustic guitar. and a classic.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 13:32 (twenty-two years ago)

of course this could have been his ploy to score some girls...cuz he did.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 13:33 (twenty-two years ago)

That's ok, unless the songs being played include "Brown Eyed Girl," "American Pie," or anything resembling either of those.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 13:37 (twenty-two years ago)

or a really bad version of "Stairway to Heaven".

― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 13:42 (twenty-two years ago)

If your friends are members of Fonda 500, CLASSIC!!!

If not, DUD, to be avoided at all costs, to the point of running screaming from the room if someone even LOOKS at an acoustic guitar. Even the best of guitarists (Eyore excepted) usually become CRAP while intoxicated and at a party. Guitarists who were merely inept before will become insufferable bores.

That said, a few years ago, I went to a party somewhere in the Hudson Valley where two acoustic guitars were produced, and 80s indie rock classics were sung all night. However, no one there was intoxicated, and nearly everyone there was actually a musician.

― kate, Tuesday, 15 October 2002 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Kate is OTM. The acoustic is evil in party situations unless there are exceptional extenuating circumstances.

― RickyT (RickyT), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 13:59 (twenty-two years ago)

NO. NO COMPROMISE. STILL DUD. ALWAYS DUD.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 14:00 (twenty-two years ago)

is right.

― michael wells (michael w.), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 14:09 (twenty-two years ago)

But what about the alternative "The party is going well - now's the time to bring out the Xenakis box set"?

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 15 October 2002 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

DIE YOU HIPPIE MOTHERFUCKERS DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIEDIEIEIEIEIEIEIEIEIEIEIEIIEIEIEIEIEIEIEIIEIEIEIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeee......_

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 14:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Nope, not even that would sound good with an acoustic guitar, Jess. Nice try, though.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 14:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Part of me thinks that the bit in Animal House where Bluto grabs the guitar and smashes it against the wall is one of the funniest film moments ever.

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 14:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Jeez, get with the tymes people; we get the Powerbook out 'round this gaff.

― Sans Fah, Tuesday, 15 October 2002 14:37 (twenty-two years ago)

''But what about the alternative "The party is going well - now's the time to bring out the Xenakis box set"?''

hurrah!!!!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 15:23 (twenty-two years ago)

what if they play green velvet?

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 17:03 (twenty-two years ago)

what if they play green day?

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 22:12 (twenty-two years ago)

what if they play a green day/green velvet bootleg?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 22:29 (twenty-two years ago)

what if they play greensleeves

― boxcubed (boxcubed), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

what if they play green jelly

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 22:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Marry, the banquet hath proceeded most fitly but wilt thou not tarry whilst I play thee a tune or two on my mandolin?

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 22:40 (twenty-two years ago)

i normally hate this, but i was at a barbeque this summer where an acoustic guitar was brought out and passed around, and this girl played (wait for it) 'in my life', but such a slow, sultry, languishing and sad version it just froze everyone. i totally fancied her after this, so the doing it for sex part works both ways (not that we had any).

so dud, unless you're umm, talented.

― ch. (synkro), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 22:52 (twenty-two years ago)

DUD. NO FRATERNISING WITH THE ENEMY.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 23:00 (twenty-two years ago)

if Tom had his way performers wouldn't perform they'd just practice by themselves all the time

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 23:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Even the best of guitarists (Eyore excepted) usually become CRAP while intoxicated and at a party.

Yes, but if everyone else is inebriated (and why wouldn't they be -- it's the only time they actually think they can sing), then it's no worse than most other party games. What's more, it humiliates everyone equally when they finally sober up the next day.

― ragnfild (ragnfild), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 23:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Even the best of guitarists (Eyore excepted) usually become CRAP while intoxicated and at a party.

― ragnfild (ragnfild), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 23:18 (twenty-two years ago)

If Tracer had his way nobody would bother pissing in a toilet they'd just use whatever glass was nearest.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 23:24 (twenty-two years ago)

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 23:30 (twenty-two years ago)

DIE YOU HIPPIE MOTHERFUCKERS DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIEDIEIEIEIEIEIEIEIEIEIEIEIIEIEIEIEIEIEIEIIEIEIEIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeee......_

but enough about the Pacific Northwest, Jess....

― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 23:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't young people these days get out the turntables for communal scratching and mixing?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 17 October 2002 10:28 (twenty-two years ago)

when the communal scratching breaks out it's a sign to go home.

― angela (angela), Thursday, 17 October 2002 10:30 (twenty-two years ago)

is electric guitar, casiotone and shoebox drum acceptable?

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 17 October 2002 10:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Proof that the acoustic guitar on its own is still a revelatory and beautiful thing: Six Organs of Admittance at Terrastock on Saturday. But this was not at a party.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 October 2002 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Six organs of admittance sounds like a party to me, hur hur hur.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 17 October 2002 14:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Green Velvet/Greenday bootleg on guitar, The Time Of Your Flash Don't Need This Shit.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 17 October 2002 14:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Alternatively someone begins to play Greenday and everyone screams the chorus to Answering Machine at them.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 17 October 2002 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Six organs of admittance sounds like a party to me, hur hur hur.

PERVERT. Ben Chasny is a funny guy to talk to, though, he'd probably fit in at a party very well.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 October 2002 14:22 (twenty-two years ago)

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The party is going well, now time to get out the old acoustic guitar part 2 - Classic or Dud?.