From: Adam Prizio <gauche@worldpath.net>
Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet
Subject: [rec.music.makers.guitar.acoustic] Re: So Why Are Guitarists Such Wienies?
Date: 12 Jul 1998 11:35:26 GMT

Subject: Re: So Why Are Guitarists Such Wienies? 
From: xyzjefsu@primary.net
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar.acoustic

On Sat, 04 Jul 1998 01:08:37 -0400, pioneer <pioneer@citizen.infi.net>
wrote:

>Perhaps it is because guitar is so intricate compared to bass. There
>are thousands of chord patterns and infinite potential riffs for the
>guitar, versus perhaps a dozen memorable bass arrangements--enhanced
>and rescued by the lead guitar during the actual song, of course. If
>lead guitarists were compared to, say, nobel prizewinning physicists,
>bass players would be freshmen on spring break, mindlessly chanting
>something about a keg, over and over...like a bass guitar line.

What do lead guitarists use for birth control?

Their personalities.