Steve51
4-thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire
Steve 51 here, newbie from Fiskville, Texas which is what the part of Austin I live in was once called when it was still several miles out of town.
Got my first guitar at 13 with lawn mowing money, and played through my mid-twenties. Started being a working stiff and put the guitar in her case for about 30 years (bad decision, I know, I know) until I retired and suddenly there was lots of time to do things I really wanted. This happened in early 2014 when a big brou-ha-ha erupted in popular media, and it was a wonderful brou-ha-ha to be sure that I enjoyed very much, about the 50th anniversary of the Beatles first trip to the States and appearing on Ed Sullivan's show. The Beatles had started it all for me on those Sullivan appearances which led to that first guitar purchase. It still seems impossible that was 50 years ago. While Paul and Ringo toured the Ed Sullivan Theater I got my dear old friend the guitar out of her case in the back of the closet and started in again, plunking first, then playing a couple scales, then stretching the hand muscles for some chords. A lot of what I knew had returned (with the callouses) over a few weeks of practicing but I wanted more. Lead guitar. Blues guitar, something I never had done.
Following up on an ad, sent for Griff's four-note solo freebie. Amazing stuff. Lot of sound from just four notes. Yikes. Also liked Griff's friendly presenation and teaching style and most importantly, the kind of blues man he is. "The lad can rip it up," as I heard Robert Plant once say in a TV interview. Or maybe it was Rowdy Roddy Piper (r.i.p.). Whoever it was, it seemed to me Griff's approach to guitar playing and to life was kinda like my own, and I have unleashed my inner blues man, taken the plunge, and signed up for some of Griff's courses.
Very glad to be here. Alba gu brath (Scotland Forever), God save the Queen, God bless the United States, and Onward through the Fog.
Got my first guitar at 13 with lawn mowing money, and played through my mid-twenties. Started being a working stiff and put the guitar in her case for about 30 years (bad decision, I know, I know) until I retired and suddenly there was lots of time to do things I really wanted. This happened in early 2014 when a big brou-ha-ha erupted in popular media, and it was a wonderful brou-ha-ha to be sure that I enjoyed very much, about the 50th anniversary of the Beatles first trip to the States and appearing on Ed Sullivan's show. The Beatles had started it all for me on those Sullivan appearances which led to that first guitar purchase. It still seems impossible that was 50 years ago. While Paul and Ringo toured the Ed Sullivan Theater I got my dear old friend the guitar out of her case in the back of the closet and started in again, plunking first, then playing a couple scales, then stretching the hand muscles for some chords. A lot of what I knew had returned (with the callouses) over a few weeks of practicing but I wanted more. Lead guitar. Blues guitar, something I never had done.
Following up on an ad, sent for Griff's four-note solo freebie. Amazing stuff. Lot of sound from just four notes. Yikes. Also liked Griff's friendly presenation and teaching style and most importantly, the kind of blues man he is. "The lad can rip it up," as I heard Robert Plant once say in a TV interview. Or maybe it was Rowdy Roddy Piper (r.i.p.). Whoever it was, it seemed to me Griff's approach to guitar playing and to life was kinda like my own, and I have unleashed my inner blues man, taken the plunge, and signed up for some of Griff's courses.
Very glad to be here. Alba gu brath (Scotland Forever), God save the Queen, God bless the United States, and Onward through the Fog.
