PeteM wrote:
Hi Michael - welcome - I've always enjoyed the braai thing, there's something honest about it.
Johnny Cash used to host what he called a "guitar pull" at his house. The idea was that his friends would come around, sit in a circle, pick up a guitar and play a song.
The difference between this and most similar affairs is that his friends would include Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, Kris Kirstofferson etc etc.
Elvis Costello replicated the guitar pull for one episode of his "Spectacle" series. He updated it a bit too, Kristofferson was there and so was Roseanne Cash, but he had Norah Jones and John Mellencamp along too.
Kristofferson said that it got a bit daunting sometimes because people would often bring a new song to the guitar pull. So you're feeling pretty good about everything and then, say, Dylan picks up a guitar and plays a song you've never heard before and it just blows everybody's hair back and then it's your turn next.
