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This place is lousy with bass players, we need to get the fumigators in, that’ll sort them ou... oh hang on (checks own username), er, welcome .

unavoidable really especially on an acoustic. listen to some very light acoustic stuff you can really notice between sliding to chords

Lefty is right (if that's not a contradiction...), it's part and parcel of playing the guitar. Having clean hands should be a 'given', of course, and rubbing down the strings after every session with a lint-free cloth is Good Practise, too. Personally, I don't think there's any benefit from string lubes such as FastFret, but you may find differently. The main thing is to play lightly when sliding up or down the strings, and let it happen if you can't avoid it. There are so many tracks out there with string noise on 'em; most decent 'virtual' guitar software even allows for adding it in for a more realistic effect. Concentrate more on the sounding of the notes, and their timing, and ignore the squeaks; they're not that important, and most listeners don't even consciously hear them.

I was just six months off sixteen when I first acquired Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex PIstols, which definitely was a life-changer, even though I already had a copy of No Future UK (Castle Records; a compilation of outttakes, rarities, b-sides and some of the Spedding demos that preceeded Bollocks). Another game-changer at fifteen was 'discovering' Chuck Berry - Johnny B Goode being the record in question, which made me want to play guitar. Bob Dylan - The Times they are a Changin' when I was not long seventeen. Around the sx months eeither sie of me turning sixteen, I was turned ontyo a lot of great music by singles (re)released off the back of the Levis ads. Most notably, after Should I Stay Or Should I Go reached number 1 that way, the 1989 The Story of the Clash Volume 1 compilation was rereleased in 1991, and I remember that soundtracking my GCSEs. To this day, when I hear some of the tracks on that album I expect to hear next the song that followed it on the same disc.