This could be good...or really embarrassing and fade quickly into the dark places where threads with only 1 courtesy response lurk, taking up space on the server and serving no other useful purpose.
Anyway...my idea is a story that I start and whoever gets the urge continues on. A chance to use your creative juices for the entertainment of all but hopefully for the embarrassment of none.
The thing is; if you don't like the way the story is headed, then change it. You have control.
But please...don't be mean or abusive. That's not cool. Try to keep it guitar/music related.
OK no more rules.
I'll start now:
The never ending story
Matt was lost in thought as he walked into the room where he had arranged to meet Neil for a discussion of the next Target lesson. In his distracted state, he initially failed to notice what Neil was doing. When he finally focused he stared for what seemed an eternity before he suddenly blurted out…..
"Why are you playing Free Falling by Tom Petty on banjo?"
The sudden shock to the system gave Matt's brain time to focus, he sat bolt upright in bed.
Covered in sweat, breathing deeply, he realised it had been a nightmare.
As Matt slowly opened his eyes and surveyed the mess in his hotel room, he thought
"What has happened here, where has the $500 competition prize guitar gone?"
.....
The sudden shock to the system gave Matt's brain time to focus, he sat bolt upright in bed.
Covered in sweat, breathing deeply, he realised it had been a nightmare.
As Matt slowly opened his eyes and surveyed the mess in his hotel room, he thought
"What has happened here, where has the $500 competition prize guitar gone?"
.....
By then the maid had tossed him and his bags out on the front lawn where a camel wearing a black TG T-shirt was grazing. Matt looked up and wondered why was there a camel in Switzerland. Then he wondered what the heck he was doing in Switzerland.
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The camel, of course, was a stuffed promotion prop and part of Totally Guitars first world tour which, against all odds, was starting in Zürich that very evening. But, where was Neil and the truck with the guitars, lighting and stage? Matt was confused and in need of coffee.
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But then he had another coffee and realise it really was a camel in a black TG T-shirt. Must have been something he had taken the night before. As Neil was still nowhere to be seen he knew he was in trouble.... not for the first time that week.
He shook his head, trying desperately to think clearly. He remembered the taxi ride, Neil raving about Tom Petty and THAT incident yet again, arriving at the airport and then the inexplicable announcement from Neil that the tour would start in Zurich, rather than Amsterdam as planned. The Swiss, Neil had explained, were far better softballers than the Dutch, yet Matt couldn't shake a nagging feeling that there was more to it than that...
Suddenly on the other side of town, Neil leaped out of bed still half asleep screaming "I didn't do it! Paul's alive!" When he finally let go of the chandelier, he was mostly awake. His feet landed on the sawdust that covered the bed and he quickly got dressed in his softball uniform, making extra sure to keep his finger guards in place. Gigging is a serious business you know.
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At the same time, high up in the hills above Zürich, the Swiss Kendo Team had called an emergency meeting with their association's president.
"Who the F*** is responsible for organising a match with the Los Gatos Sluggers, Herrgottnochmal! The differences between a softball bat you knowing, are not?!!"
Coach Dave Waggis lowered his chagrined eyes to the floor and muttered something about confusing the loud uniforms as everything in America seems so LOUD.
What were they to do, they could swing a good bamboo stick but they'd never actually swung them at Softballs before.....
"Who the F*** is responsible for organising a match with the Los Gatos Sluggers, Herrgottnochmal! The differences between a softball bat you knowing, are not?!!"
Coach Dave Waggis lowered his chagrined eyes to the floor and muttered something about confusing the loud uniforms as everything in America seems so LOUD.
What were they to do, they could swing a good bamboo stick but they'd never actually swung them at Softballs before.....