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Being a guitar player the last 24+ years I do agree that breaking out a guitar at a party has to be under the following conditions:
1. The host / people are cool with it overall.
2. You have a set of tunes that people can sing to / dance to / know.
3. Leave the "work in progress" pieces at home. Only break out the tunes you have down cold.
4. Give it a break after 45 minutes or if you can see the crowd is not into it.
The only times these rules do not apply.
1. Its a Jam Session with other players there.
2. You are alone.
I took my Acoustic to a new years party at a mountain house that had 16 people there. The host asked me to bring my guitars and they asked me to play a few times before I broke it out. Why? ... Because there was a larger group of babes that were dancing and listening to old madonna tunes ...
Later on, when it got quieter on the 30th - I broke out the guitar and came to learn that a fellow party goer is an accomplished classical guitarist. We passed the guitar back and forth for 2 hours between us and the people went fucking nuts that we had funky cover tunes, blues jams, jazz pieces and classical numbers down and yet me and Kyle ( other guy ) never met before that night but both played 24+ years each.............
We were asked to bring our guitars *EVERY* time we come up to the house again as the hosts liked it that much.
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