No problemo, Doug...
If I find something suitably METAL in the debris case, prior to eBay (for my resurection funds), I'll let you know...
Maybe as I'm acting in-loco-parentis or as a "METAL MENTOR" having played a bit, albeit unsuccessfully in a commercial sense, maybe I should return to an old nickname... "HM Murdoch" as in "Heavy Metal Murdoch", not the popular TV sidekick... It is my middle name, after all...
I'll suggest a good "
POWER-CHORD" for you to try, with a pick... open E - index finger on 7th fret of the A and a bar with the ring finger on the 9th of the D and G...
Now try that with the most ORNERY instrument you own through your Hiwatt, maybe a 4x12 and a 2x15, with everything set at
FULL THROTLE, and tell me that doesn't move you... and everything else in the house...
That basic chord pattern will work pretty much anywhere on the neck - if you really want to go for it occasionally drop that little pinkie 2 more frets up the neck, for a bit of variation... We'll have you playing "MOTORHEAD" in no time...
How many PP9's...!?!?!?!?!
Dave, why do I keep having these flashbacks of the "Dead Parrot" sketch; something about muscling up to the bars and an excessive amount of voltage...?
Bret and Barkless - I guess we'll hear about it when Doug plugs her in, "Cause of 'Brown-outs' still untraced in the Netherlands" in the international news section...