Hello. Welcome to my blog! I guess I should tell anyone who’s looking in a bit about myself. I’m John, I’m 41 and I recently moved from Glasgow to Oxford. I’m a guitarist (hence the title of the blog) and for the last 12 years I’ve been a guitar teacher. On here I’ll be talking and opining about all thing guitar and music and the chances are that I’ll also sound off about things that irritate me, like politics, religion and various other human foibles that get under my skin. I’ll try not to rant too often, but I can’t promise anything!
Over the next few days, I’ll be introducing you to my guitar collection, which is fairly healthy and likely to slowly increase. I’ll warn you now, I’m a bit of a geek and am likely to ramble on at length and in detail about the minutiae of these marvellous instruments, but I hope you’ll find something of interest, especially if you’re looking to invest in your first guitar or add to your own collection.
As regards guitarists I like, there’s nothing too out of the ordinary. I got my first guitar after seeing Eric Clapton in concert in 1983 (although I had been playing my dad’s acoustic for about a year beforehand). I’m a big Pink Floyd fan, so obviously David Gilmour is a player I admire. I love the Beatles and, as well as being great songwriters, McCartney, Lennon and Harrison were much underrated guitarists, both on electric and acoustic. Throw in Mark Knopfler, Peter Green and the great Gary Moore and that’ll give you an idea of where I’m coming from.
Well, here’s hoping some of you drop in from time to time.
March 29, 2008 at 4:41 pm |
Hooray! Welcome to the blogosphere. Rant at will. x