With a couple small gigs coming up this and next month, I needed to get a new guitar as my Yamaha has been crapping out on me and is beyond repair. I only went into Hands Music in Kingston (great store, btw) to get some strings and ended up walking out with a 12 string Crafter D8-12/N. While it wasn't expensive compared to some other 12-strings Ive priced up, this one wasn't cheap either, and will serve as a XMas present to myself for a couple of years, I think...

So, just for the boys who wanted to hear what it sounds like instead of seeing pictures, here's a rough-cut video of me singing Stevie Ray Vaughan.

Boy, I need to practice some more. Hadn't heard this song before yesterday - went YouTubeing for some 12-string inspiration and found this Unplugged performance.

He's definitely using a different (perhaps open?) tuning. I'm nervous to try alternate tunings at the moment as I've only one set of backup strings.