Playing Unplugged

ozover50 · Post by **ozover50** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 7:33 pm

I assume that the bath should be unplugged, Melissa - given that the guitar will be!!

longhouse · Post by **longhouse** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 7:55 pm

Soooo many of my songs have been composed at wee hours, sitting on the edge of the tub, playing a Ric unplugged.

I was once married and did my best to not wake the whole house.

bitzerguy · Post by **bitzerguy** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 8:08 pm

Geoff: It does lend a great new twist to singing in the shower. Or getting ready for work.

Bill: "She came in through the bathroom window..." way too cool!

Brian: Yeah, mine thinks I'm nuts too. Glad you tried it though. Gotta have SOME fun.

Howard: For the 660/12, I have found my main bath to be perfect. 6' x 12'. 13" x 13" tile floor. 8' ceiling. one end of the room (6' x 3') with a deep dish style 5' tub (fibreglass) with 1/2 tub as an enlarged shower with glass sliding shower stall door, about 30", tiled with 13" x 13" ceramic tub edge to ceiling. Remaining 1' at tub end is a tiled shelf. 5"x8" plaster ceiling cove mouldings and balance of room in melamine paint. 1 3'x 5'bath sheet on rack at the door and 37 shampoo bottles on the shelf, one of which is mine. Mirror is 60" x 48". 1 roll in the paper holder, quilted only. Play in the shelf end of the tub and use the sliding glass door to adjust the depth of the reverb. Any fabric will only deaden the reverb. Enough detail?

Oh... bath is to be unplugged, of course.

...Dean

ozover50 · Post by **ozover50** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 8:37 pm

Too much.... too much!!

Looks like I'll have to do some experimenting - my loo is separate to the bathroom and I have a separate glass shower recess in one corner. The bath sounds perfect!

I'll give it a whirl tonight!!

winston · Post by **winston** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 9:00 pm

Aitch, in such a small space, it's probably advisable not to try any ZZ Top spin the guitar routines in the bathroom. LOL

It's amazing but it's true, bathroom acoustics do make a Ric sound great. Who would have thought that would be the case?

ozover50 · Post by **ozover50** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 9:22 pm

No probs, Brian. I was thinking of something far more sedate than that.... "Splish Splash"??

Can you imagine the advertisement on eBay some time in the future? "Only played a few times in the bath. Moderate faucet rash, small soap stain at the top of the headstock. Otherwise mint!". LOL!!!

ozover50 · Post by **ozover50** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 3:32 am

SHOCK ALERT!!

Splish, splash................!!

Bathman Turnoff Overfill....!!

sorry.......... disgusting, innit??

bitzerguy · Post by **bitzerguy** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 4:09 am

ROTFL!! That's it Aitch! Now yer cookin with gas... er...

Hope it was good for you.

Now there you have it folks! Closet bathroom players coming out in droves! (as opposed to bathroom closet players, who experience little reverb due to the fabric.)

...Dean

tito · Post by **tito** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 5:16 am

I love to play my 360/12 unplugged. I whip out the finger picks and play some crazy bluegrass. It's nice because it's not too loud thus my family can remain asleep. It sounds great!
Nice picture you got there. . .

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 5:39 am

Aitch, you set a new er, standard...

red_rob · Post by **red_rob** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 6:09 am

Is that your new 1997 sir?

winston · Post by **winston** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 7:14 am

Too funny Aitch. Now I have sore sides from laughing so much.

wayang · Post by **wayang** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 7:16 am

Ah, cultural exchange...so your 'loo' is separate from your bathroom, Aitch? That tends to be the case in a lot of NZ houses too, especially old ones. Our euphemistic reference to 'having to go to the bathroom' even when we look perfectly clean already is uniquely and prudishly American.

My artf*ck hippie friends in Christchurch, at whose crazy communal house I used to crash in the 80's, had a bathroom on the second floor, and a 'loo' outside in the back garden...a little wooden shack affair papered on the inside from floor to ceiling with Aubrey Beardsley prints...quite a 'refreshing' experience, particularly in the winter. When I observed to them what a 'quaint' (boy, do they ever hate that word coming from a Yank) and archaic throwback this arrangement seemed to me, they retorted with a question that immediately put me in my place:

"Do you mean to say that you routinely **** INSIDE YOUR DOMICILE?"...Once again I found myself thinking, hmmm...who's the real barbarian here?

melibreits · Post by **melibreits** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 7:40 am

Aitch, I am laughing so hard my whole family thinks there is something wrong with me!!!!

I had to prove there are people crazier than me out there! Too funny!!!!

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 8:37 am

The surest proof is on these pages.