Research shows that woman are more attracted to men with a guitar.
Sadly, I must be the guitar playing exception that proves the rule :mad:
Woohoo, along with that beard study that came out a little while ago, I am now officially irresistible.
Worked for my husband when he was a lad in the late 60’s. He decided to play guitar (which he didn’t do well yet) instead of paint (which he apparently did) because he got to meet more girls.
The music school I attend (where, yes, I take guitar lessons) has an awesome (and related) sign in their window: “Chicks dig musicians. Sign up today or be lonely.”
There’s a thread over on the Acoustic Guitar Forum where folks are sharing their How I Got into Guitar stories. Trying to be attractive to girls accounts for a bit %-age.
That was totally true for me. I saw a dude play Landslide on acoustic when I was 15 at a house party. The girls swooned. It didn’t hurt that he was handsome, a star football player and had a '68 Mustang with Cragar Mags - as far as I was concerned, it was the guitar.
Too funny - this research kinda puts data underneath the glaringly obvious…
That’s “a biG %-age”…
And I can tell you the chicks do NOT dig tuba players. Go figure.
Worked for my husband. We ended up engaged (quite spontaneously) the night he played his guitar for me for the first time. Which was surprising because I didn’t even know I was a guitar girl until he came along.
Eric Clapton has said that he picked up guitar to meet girls.
I dig a woman who can play the French horn.
Women always cheat on me with drummers.
That’s because they eventually get tired of musicians.
Wow, I never had problems with the ladies, but I always thought my sparkling personality was the attraction. 'Course I was also unaware that girls liked sex until I was 18. Until then, I thought it was something they would put up with to have a guy, never realizing the primary reason they might want one would be for the sex. So, yeah, I’m dense.
As a chick, I know this to be totally true regarding myself.
I also noticed it to be true for my daughter when she was just a few years old. We had a friend come over to the house once (a sort of Dale Gribble type) and when he played a couple songs, she was transfixed. Although that was the only time they met, she still remembers him.
You and me both brother. I mean, I’m married and not looking, but the occasional flirt wouldn’t hurt the ego. Although, it doesn’t help that part of my stage persona involves being a condescending prick.
Poor Franz Liszt and Niccolò Paganini. If only they’d played guitar instead of piano and violin, they wouldn’t have had to suffer as they did for lack of female companionship.
I’ve studied the guitar-player:attractiveness ratio and there is an important co-efficient that is neglected. I’ll call it “gear fixation”. I’ve all too often seen the following:
guitar player finishes a sloppy version of “Wonderwall” at open mic night
Girls: swoon That was beautiful, you are amazing bat eyelashes I looovvveee guitar
Guy: Thanks! It’s a classic, pre-lawsuit domestic Fender with nickle winds instead of copper…
Girls: ummmm…
Guy: and Peavey-cabinet pickguards tuned up to F-sharp for rounding off the top end tuner peg tone…
Girls:…gotta go…ummm…see ya? run away and chat up the bartender
When a girl says they love guitar, you instead respond:
Guy: Thanks! It’s really special, I named it “Suzie”, you see while volunteering at the rest home, there was this old blind guy there who loved playing blues guitar to his wife, Suzie, and could no longer muster the will to play after she died and he played this guitar at her funeral. I was so touched by his story that he asked me to name it in her memory…
Thank goodness it wasn’t The Riddle Song.
Guitar has gotten me absolutely zero chicks… I think. If it has, the girls have not admitted it.
Dude - you’re freakin’ me out; have you been following me around 