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ehrm. hello

I'm Shell, but have recently been christened 'Sunflower' by my comrades. I've been playing guitar now for about 2 years, and want to go into the music industry when I'm done with school...*sighs and gazes pathetically into the distant future*
I have two guitars whom I love very dearly. One is a vintage, battle-scarred Yamaha acoustic (FG200) which my dad scored off some oke in the Army for R50. His name is Freddy.
The other is a 2007 Fender Squier with a rosewood fingerboard and ten-gauge strings. His name is Jack.

I'd like to say that my music sounds like Alien Ant Farm, B.B. King, The Beatles, Bloomfield Kooper Stills, Bob Dylan, Boston, Cream, Dave Matthews Band, David Bowie, Death Cab for Cutie, Elvis Costello, Eric Clapton, Green Day, Jack Johnson, Jeff Beck, Jet, Jimi Hendrix, John Mayer, Johnny Winter, The Killers, Leonard Cohen, Lightnin' Hopkins, Linkin Park, Little Richard, Modest Mouse, Muse, My Chemical Romance, The New Pornographers, Panic! at the Disco, Pink Floyd, Queen, Radiohead, Robert Johnson, The Rolling Stones, The Shins, The Small Faces, Steely Dan, Steve Vai, Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Strokes, Weather Report, Wolfmother and The Yeah Yeah Yeahs all playing simultaneously, but you'd need a lot of earphones [not to mention a lot of ears] to listen to that sort of thing, so for the moment I'll just stick to sounding like a silly teenager messing around with her Dad's recording equipment...

*bows*
*exits*
    Hi Shell! Welcome to the forum.

    Any relation to the other Avenant person currently disgracing the forum with his presence? (If so, my sympathies. ?) There do seem to be similarities in the wide-ranging music taste and the sense of humour...

    Perhaps since he started frequenting this forum, you have realised that if you want to talk to him much in the future, you had to join up here too? ? Such is the nature of this addictive place <sigh>.

    Anyway... again, welcome. Enjoy your stay...
      why thankyou Mr.Ratty Sir (as I have been advised to call you)
      sadly, true. My dear father and guitar teacher spends most of his time on this forum, and noodles around on his strat in his free time ?

      similarities in wide-ranging music taste only go so far, though. I didn't include in my music taste that I rather like some (more rock-glazed) variations of rap and hiphop, lest my father should errupt in a wild explosion of swearing and violent threats and you should have to kick him off the forum for violating its terms of use. we wouldn't want that, now would we? ?
        Welcome to GFSA Michelle.  You can become a hero member just like me all you have to do is push that little [applaud] link under my name every time you see a post by me  ?
          Michelle Avenant wrote: why thankyou Mr.Ratty Sir (as I have been advised to call you)
          Ill advised, as is only to be expected from advice sourced from that varlet you sadly call pater. Alan's fine...
          My dear father and guitar teacher spends most of his time on this forum, and noodles around on his strat in his free time ?
          So it would probably be a bad idea to hit on you then? ? Especially as I'm apparently going to see him in the flesh on Tuesday or so and I'd rather not see his flesh in the form of knuckle covering from extremely close range.
          we wouldn't want that, now would we? ?
          Well, funny you should mention that...
            Hi Michelle!

            Welcome ?

            Love your influences. Don't knock the old man - pater's genes are shining bright right there!

            We love the old geezer here - always boldly going where angels fear to shred ... er, tread :-[

            Look forward to reading your posts.



              Welcome Michelle!

              Good to have another Avenant aboard! Good genes she has...
                hey dude welcome...hope u njoy the stay, esp with pops supervisin u ?
                  'ello Michelle welcome to the forum!!!

                  everyone dreams to go into the music industry when they leave school(well musos) ☹

                  how long did it take you to name all those bands? ??? i couldn't name all mine at the same time,i always forget some ?

                  anyways,enjoy the forum!!!
                    A Steely Dan, awesome!

                    Welcome
                      JK wrote: A Steely Dan, awesome!
                      Eh, i left out the word fan there....
                      A Steely Dan fan, awesome!
                        Hey Shell welcome! Good musical taste and influences!
                          Okay, Daddy, I'm not that retarded. I mean, I know I'm a little bit *special* but as my parental figure, you should be nurturing that wonderful asset (I mean, you of all people should know where it came from...), not abusing it! No applause for daddy until my pocket money is raised.

                          Alan get applause for mocking my dad. Nice stuf!

                          "OI! THAT'S MY ARCH RIVAL AND HE HAS ENOUGH APPLAUSE ALREADY? DO YOU WANT TO GET A KLAP?!" - Rene froths at the mouth in the background

                          Okay, Im getting kicked off the computer now. thanx for the welcomes everyone
                          lol i copied my infuences list off my facebook profile - heheh
                            facebook is like a disease,i hate it so much,yet i can't stop using it ???
                              ag, yeah, facebook sucks hey.
                              It annoys me how impersonal everything has become because of facebook. There are so many people who think its okay if they never want to hang out with me, as long as they talk to me on facebook.
                              But I use it because it does actually help me stay in touch with everyone.
                              Teenagers move fast. They gaggle and squawk and migrate like a flock of birds. Facebook is like the avine migratory instinct of teenagers of the 21st century.
                              As impersonal as it may be, I need to stay with the program.
                                Hi there....

                                Nice influences. I see we are going to get along just fine...bonus points right there for liking The Shins and Mr Cohen.
                                  Hey Michelle, nice to see female participation increasing on this forum.

                                  btw, what is your dad's name?