As some of you may have already read in these pages, I am an amateur musician and guitar player. The mere thought that I had to live without my electric guitar for 4 months was almost unbearable, but I was sure that I would be busy enough not to miss it. But as days went buy and I the more I heard about these 2nd hand stores, it was only a matter of time until I decided to purchase one. So Juho (yes, again) drove me and Aaron (my flatmate who also wanted a guitar) to downtown and helped us choose a couple of acoustic 2nd hand guitars. For a really good price, I got a blue Squier (preeeetty). In Portugal I would never have this kind of equipment for this price. And it didn't seem "used" at all. Hyvää!! :)
The idea was to keep it in my room for the most boring times and practise some minutes a day, and even (why not?) compose new songs based on my new experience. But it turned out to be for some other purposes, like playing in parties and performing duets (dozens) with other guitar-playing students. It was a lot of fun. I took the piece everywhere and it played beautifully. I missed playing "live" for some time and now I had some chances to do it. It's the best thing!
My dreaming mind had this plan once that consisted on the following: taking 1 or 2 other students and go downtown (Keskusta), while snowing, and perform for some minutes. The repertoire included some popular songs (Cat Stevens, Bryan Adams, Nirvana, Radiohead...) and also some improvisation. Of course someone would have to make videos and pictures of the event (that goes without saying). I would call this thing "Keskusta Concerto". Unfortunately, it never happened due to lack of time (yes, it's true). I had all the songs prepared, with lyrics and all but I couldn't do it alone, so it was hard to get other people to include something like this in their agendas. It was my fault, because I waited longer than I should have to plan this. Anyway, thanks to all that agreed to it and to those whose enthusiasm got me going (yes you girls from ESN). Sorry to let you down :( Maybe next time...
Finally, I had to make the decision to sell it or keep it and bring it to Portugal. My dear friend Olli from Oulu liked the guitar so much that helped me make the decision, which was to sell it after all. So I did. I'm sure he'll take good care of it and give it really good use ;)
I'll miss that guitar, but Olli will let me play it when I return to Oulu some day...
(Won't you?!?!) :P