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[buddyb]

I am considering a job offer in Kuwait, currently living in Canada. My wife and I are up to the move, however I am concerned about my 15 yr old son. He is an avid music lover (rock and roll/hard rock) plays guitar and has shoulder length hair. He is quiet, does not like to stand out in the crowd, but loves his long hair. Is there a school in Kuwait that will accept him? How much difficulty will he have in fitting in?

[kiefer]

If your son goes to one of the western schools--British or American, he will find like minded shaggy haired peers. Rock bands abound in Kuwait. When you get there, PM me and I'll steer him towards a guitar player and a drummer I know.

The problem is finding an audience. There are no clubs hiring rock bands--there are no clubs period--although there is a Kuwait Jazz Festival once a year at one of the nicer hotels (live music is not out of the question). If he finds some players and they work up a set, it may be a case of "all dressed up, no place to go."

There is a fairly decent music store in Salmiya--Adaliya. Their strings selections bites, but they have a nice selection of amps, PA systems, mikes and Mexican Fenders.

Bring picks but remind him to call them plecturns.

[veiledsentiments]

[kiefer]

Brits call guitar picks plecturns.

You'll find in Kuwait more Brits who like to get together en masse with home brew and acoustic guitars for strumming sing-alongs. In this setting, use a plecturn.

We Americans in Kuwait, probably for obvious stereo-typical, cultural "nuances" (loud, abrasive. . .) don't cotton much to acoustic guitar gatherings; we prefer the Dylan '65 route and we tend to go electric, mostly. On these occasions, bring your pick.

[veiledsentiments]

Sounds a rather long and formal academic word for a tiny piece of plastic. Players of guitars are normally casual people...

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[Stephen Jones]

The word is plectrum. Every British steel-string guitar player knows it.

[sheikh radlinrol]

[kiefer]

Plectrum--thanks! I Googled plecturn to check spelling and actually got hits.

PLEC/TRUM.

[sheikh radlinrol]

[veiledsentiments]

And you make such assumptions based on...

I like some of the work of all those musicians, but if you want to talk guitar players, I was a big Hendrix fan. Simon and Garfunkel were a bit staid for my taste. I was once married to a lead guitar player... hard rock. What would my EFL department directors have thought if they knew.

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[miski]