Chris Dair

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…

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…

Bukka White Remembrance of Charley Patton 

Always wanted to be like old Charley Patton. 

Long ago when I was a kid, I hear him an' play those numbers about I'll hitch up my buggy and saddle up my black mare. 

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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…

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…

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…