So yesterday I was in manchester as always, 'twas all good I suppose, bought a wah pedal 
and thats made my week...that and the hundred reasons concert tomorrow
...so anyway I was in the triangle just sorta standin there with a few friends, and eventually as usual we got kicked out. So out we went onto CATHEDRAL GARDENS...NOT URBIS...CATHEDRAL GARDENS....GET IT RIGHT!!! and just as I was walking through, and some idiot guy, bout my age, walks past playin nirvana on his acoustic guitar. Now I'm all for musicians performing, I love hearing live music, even more so I love performing it myself. But I just have to explain my problems here....
For people who don't know, Cathedral Gardens, or "Urbis" as it is better known, is a dirty patch of grass in the middle of Manchester, just behind the Urbis museum, where hundreds of emo/mosher/goth/rocker kids gather for their weekly standing. Sometimes some kid will bring along a guitar, I dont blame them really, it's incredibly boring if you dont have something to do there, however I wouldnt bring my guitar, would attract too much unwelcome attention and I wouldnt play it on there because I dont like to associate myself with that place. The fact is, there are many kids on there that play guitar, but, due to the influences they find through the general taste of music between them all, none of them are any good. So it brings me to wonder why the hell they come out in public, clearly to show off their guitar playing skills, when they don't have any!
Nirvana songs are very easy to play, simple chords that repeat normally covered by heavy distortion to make it a bit more exciting.Most people learn to play that even if they dont play guitar, purely cause it's so easy. So why the hell would anyone want to show it off? The fact is, these people often believe they are good, and the people who hear them give them more respect than they ever deserve. I was tempted to ask to play, so that I could demonstrate exactly what playing guitar is, seeing as they obviously dont know. Why would they play Nirvana on an acoustic guitar anyway? I'll tell you why, its because they most likely dont know how to play any acoustic songs, because their entire music taste is compressed into a single line of genres which varies about as much as the colour scheme of their clothes.
so remember people, when you see people playing crap on guitar such as nirvana, greenday, any other popular punk crap, point out to them that they have nothing worthy of showing off
ps. i wanted to post this as a thread but it wouldnt work...anyone know why?