Your kids' Christmas presents - which of them do you like?
Discussion
Amongst the Bob-the-Builder trucks and Lightning McQueen racetrack and vehicles given to my 4yo son for Christmas this year, he also received something called a POWER TOUR guitar which hasn't really caught his imagination.
Now, I have played in various bands for about 25 years as a drummer. I call myself "instrumentally inept" - my way of saying I can play nothing - although I did write many of our songs on a keyboard back then (Juno60 if anyone cares). But the thing it, I never really managed more than about 3 chords of a guitar in all that time. In 25 years I constantly irritate myself that I cannot pick up a guitar and strum away even half-heartedly.
I even bought myself a Hohner headless guitar in the early 1990s - I liked the look of it and hoped that alone would spur me onto learning how to play. It didn't. Those 3 chords are the sum of my learning.
BUT, with the POWER TOUR guitar, I am now a veritable rock god... one that can stand and play instead of skulking at the back of the stage.
It's absolutely brilliant. I've hardly put it down since Christmas day and I have old classic rock tracks (Smoke on the Water, Ace of Spades, etc etc) rattling around my head virtually all the time at the mo. OK, it only manages major chords but that's a bloody massive leap ahead of my abilities with a real guitar, and I suddenly understand what it must be like to stand in front of an audience of thousands (well, I have played to "hundreds" before, if not "thousands").
So, has anyone else become addicted to their kids' Christmas presents?
ETA picture:
It may look genuine at a cursory glance, but that thing has no strings and is probably only about 70cm long.
Now, I have played in various bands for about 25 years as a drummer. I call myself "instrumentally inept" - my way of saying I can play nothing - although I did write many of our songs on a keyboard back then (Juno60 if anyone cares). But the thing it, I never really managed more than about 3 chords of a guitar in all that time. In 25 years I constantly irritate myself that I cannot pick up a guitar and strum away even half-heartedly.
I even bought myself a Hohner headless guitar in the early 1990s - I liked the look of it and hoped that alone would spur me onto learning how to play. It didn't. Those 3 chords are the sum of my learning.
BUT, with the POWER TOUR guitar, I am now a veritable rock god... one that can stand and play instead of skulking at the back of the stage.
It's absolutely brilliant. I've hardly put it down since Christmas day and I have old classic rock tracks (Smoke on the Water, Ace of Spades, etc etc) rattling around my head virtually all the time at the mo. OK, it only manages major chords but that's a bloody massive leap ahead of my abilities with a real guitar, and I suddenly understand what it must be like to stand in front of an audience of thousands (well, I have played to "hundreds" before, if not "thousands").
So, has anyone else become addicted to their kids' Christmas presents?
ETA picture:
It may look genuine at a cursory glance, but that thing has no strings and is probably only about 70cm long.
Edited by Mars on Sunday 4th January 22:21
I bought my 8 year old daughter these for christmas to go with her Barbies : http://www.iwantoneofthose.com/laser-challenge-pro...
They are really very good, and funnily they are actually her favourite present (along with LittleBigPlanet)...
They are really very good, and funnily they are actually her favourite present (along with LittleBigPlanet)...
Tunku said:
Tell me about these... are they easy to control and do the infra-red comms present any problems?I've fancied one for a while.
Mars said:
Tunku said:
Tell me about these... are they easy to control and do the infra-red comms present any problems?I've fancied one for a while.
I have one of those, I know i'm slightly to old, but its a f
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