helliott
Well-known member
Greetings from Southern Ontario, Canada. I stumbled across this very cool site, and being constantly starved for discussion about guitars and guitar music, I had to give it a try.
I've been playing for 40 years or so. From that first Silvertone bought with paper route money to the current collection (which is not about to grow if I want to stay married), I've been nuts about all things guitar. Played in bands in the teen years, played to make some money and pay for college, played in bar bands in as a second job in Western Canada and when we re-located back here 20-odd years ago. The late hours and a demanding professional life make a working band difficult now, so I try to keep loose woodshedding, playing pickup gigs where they come up, even some open mic stuff.
Like many players who've been at it for a long time, there are lulls from time to time, but most days I'm in the basement at some point, blowing off stress with the Mesa cranked, or trying to figure out Stevie or Warren Haynes pulled off a certain thing. (Speaking of the latter, if you haven't listened to the closing solo in Beautifully Broken live one the Deep End CD and DVD, find it now and listen.)
Anyhow, I've enjoyed lurking briefly and seeing what other players are up to. I hope to have some talk and learn some things from some of the obviously gifted musicians who hang out here. That's the most gratifying thing about this instrument for me -- there's never and end to what I can learn and be inspired by.
Cheers
I've been playing for 40 years or so. From that first Silvertone bought with paper route money to the current collection (which is not about to grow if I want to stay married), I've been nuts about all things guitar. Played in bands in the teen years, played to make some money and pay for college, played in bar bands in as a second job in Western Canada and when we re-located back here 20-odd years ago. The late hours and a demanding professional life make a working band difficult now, so I try to keep loose woodshedding, playing pickup gigs where they come up, even some open mic stuff.
Like many players who've been at it for a long time, there are lulls from time to time, but most days I'm in the basement at some point, blowing off stress with the Mesa cranked, or trying to figure out Stevie or Warren Haynes pulled off a certain thing. (Speaking of the latter, if you haven't listened to the closing solo in Beautifully Broken live one the Deep End CD and DVD, find it now and listen.)
Anyhow, I've enjoyed lurking briefly and seeing what other players are up to. I hope to have some talk and learn some things from some of the obviously gifted musicians who hang out here. That's the most gratifying thing about this instrument for me -- there's never and end to what I can learn and be inspired by.
Cheers
R
