The guitar has strummed itself throughout my life. I talk about that a little bit in this post.
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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe via -or- Dave Sharp has been my guitar hero since I was a kid. If you’ve read this blog for an extended period of time, you probably know that. One summer I got to actually meet and play guitar with the guy. [...]
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A friend’s spouse told me the other day I was lucky because with a guitar I’d never be unemployed. Hmm, that made little sense to me but I thanked him for the compliment anyway. I used to teach guitar out of my home and had a bunch of marketing pens that lie around [...]
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As I sit here tonight I can see my guitar in full view next to the tv. It’s a medium brown wood color with a large flat plastic pick guard just below the sound hole. It’s a Martin guitar from the orchestra series. I’ve played it in hundreds of places, my dad [...]
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Playing small bars and coffee houses has been a hobby of mine with my guitar since I was a teenager. I love it and even though it can be a lot of torturous work getting up there (mostly the process before the show) it is worth it every time.
Last night I played Angels Roadhouse in [...]
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Lorelle has a blog challenge this week to blog about a time when you felt “big.” I thought it was a perfect opportunity to write a memoir here on when I met two of my all-time life heroes.
The first one was Dave Sharp, ex-guitarist of the eighties neo-punk arena band: “The Alarm.” If [...]
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The Fender Telecaster
The Martin “Triple ‘o’”
The Rickenbacker 6-String
The Les Paul
The Stratocaster
The Gibson J-45
The Baby Taylor
The Flying-V
The Martin Dreadnought
The Gretsch Hollow Body
The Fender P Bass
5 String Bass
Rickenbacker 12-String
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A long running hobby throughout my life has been songwriting. I think I wrote my first song in 7th grade, the chorus went something like this:
You’re out of reach, out of reach
I try to reach you try to make you believe
But you’re out of reach . . . to reach your peak.
Okay okay, [...]
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I started teaching at age 27. Though I thought I was old then, I look back now and see that I was most assuredly still a very young adult. Back then I was very much a self-starter. After subbing in a district for 3 months I managed to get hired on a year’s teaching contract [...]
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In case you haven’t noticed, I haven’t played the SandBar or any other venue for several months. My last gig was a while back at the Ponderosa. I played for 20 minutes in front of an audience of 18-20 year olds. It was a good experience as playing live always is. [...]
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