beandog

Dude, dont try and pretend you only did it for Isobel, you take any excuse to get down and rightly so!!

that's cool fella. And start 'em young on a steady diet of good music. It's great watching kids getting into music. I used to go around to my mates house and jam. We'd be doing acoustic stuff, not too heavy, not too loud but his baby used to go apeshit when when we used to play. He'd be bouncing around like a loon in his chair.

Also, I put my bass down once and he crawled over and started tugging away on the strings. My friend was a bit like, oh sorry, thinking about my equipment, and I just thought: let him tug. He's watched us and he's giving it a go. I understand that instruments are expensive and kids should be taught to understand that but its got to be balanced off with just enjoying the physicality of playing. At the end of the day, that's half of what I like about playing the guitar - tugging stings and making a fucking racket!!!!

And that's another great thing about kids. I used to work in this kids nursery when I was younger, like 16 as a summer job. My role was simply to be there as the token male so the kids could jump on my head. But one of the cool things about playing with kids is they don't judge you and they're always 100% about the fun. So you can just let loose. And that's all they want you to do too because then the game's more fun. Although the game always seemed to culminate in them jumping on my head or hitting me over the head with lego blocks - I was with the 1 -2 year olds.

Kids are great and they sure make me laugh