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Playing Solo Guitar

Response to a forum question: How can I become a good lead guitarist? 

One thing I remember doing, (about 6 years old) was choosing a phrase, making up my own scales I suppose, and working out a pattern, way before…

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Just saying...

Just want to say... 

I want to make the point that with my music I use very few electronic techniques. I do not use any looping or sampling and all of the instruments are played live by me for the…

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Rory Gallagher

Rory Gallagher 

I was just a kid when I met Rory. I can't remember the venue (I really wish I could). It was a bar in Manchester sometime in either '73 or '74. 

A friend of mine introduced me to…

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Meeting Bukka White

Meeting Bukka White 

I met Bukka White when I was a very young guitarist, he was doing a tour with several other great jazz/blues players - I am pretty sure it was in Leek, Staffordshire in the UK - I…

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Playing Jimi's Martin Guitar

Playing New Rising Sun on Jimi's Martin Acoustic Guitar 

Playing Jimi's guitar...It's hard to pinpoint the exact date...it was maybe around 1998 /1999, I was at Noel Redding's house just outside Clonakilty, Ireland. 

First of all Noel said "I…

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