All Of Us Music Lovers
I have been playing guitar since I was in High School, not much of a leadman, but I can fill in the bgackground with great right hand work.
I love Johnny Cash. His lyrics are some of the greatest poetry you will ever read concerning the "human condition", and that simple, "boom chiga" rythm shows that a great sound is more than running up and down the neck with endless riffs.
I also love early Elvis, Ricky Nelson, Blue Grass, Early American Folk, Heavy Metal, The Stones, Led Zepplan, Motown, anything from the 50's and 60's, the Beatles and one song by Janis Joplin, (Big Brother and the Holding Company), "Take Another Little Piece of My Heart". Trisha Yearwood did a version of that a few years back. Pityfull. She just didn't understan that to sing that song right, you have to be stoned, drunk, and down right ugly.
Todays Country Music just sucks.
As for the Gunsmith question, and when it is appropriate to bring up negatives??. This is a tough call. I can think of two Gunsmiths in the past years who ended up screwing a lot of shooters royaly. If the word could have been put out about about the less than honorable practices of these individules, perhaps many could have been saved the heartache, and aggravation, of seeing hard earned money and dreams go down the toilet.
But, the fact is, we never know when someone simply has an ax to grind. If a shooter has a Rifle built, and he doesn't win his first match, he might be inclined to come aboard and say the Gunsmith was at fault.
Having a first class Rifle built by a first class Gunsmith certainly is no guarantee of success. It si simply one of the major components in solving the Accuracy Equation.
If you do this long enough, you will come to learn that the vast majority of people who are involved in Benchrest are upstanding honorable beings. This is a very close knit community. The word gets out pretty fast when somebody enters into questionable practices. The best we can hope for is not too many shooters aredamaged in the proccess.
Perhaps, in the future, Wilbur could set up a procedure for identifying charlitans, and using the Forum to educate Shooters. But untill then, we have to do the best we can.........jackie