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The Electric Guitar Lessons

Electric Sessions: \,,\ (..) /,,/

It started with Electric…
It rapidly improved with Acoustic…
And now its back to the roots R’n’F’n’R on the Electric Guitar again!

I won’t labour too much on the history of this as I’ve mentioned it in earlier posts [POST=321], but, I’ve now done the full circle from trying to play along with my mate when I was 13, giving up for 10 years, getting some electric lessons, playing in some Acoustic Lesson Sessions and now back to Electric Lesson Sessions, with what feels like a much better equipped skill-set and mindset… Continue reading “The Electric Guitar Lessons”

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The Acoustic Guitar Lessons

Once rainy afternoon in Bollington, we took the nipper swimming and when filling our boots with chocolate afterwards, my wife noticed an add on the notice board in the leisure centre:

“Adult Guitar Class. Play popular songs.
Tuesdays 7.30 – 9.30 p.m. at the Dog & Partridge.
Bollington.
Tel: Mark 07989 600001”

Well I gave Mark a call, and he promptly invited me down to come and watch half a session. Looked like just what I was after.

The sessions are Mark (Lineham) at the front with Continue reading “The Acoustic Guitar Lessons”

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Guitar – Getting up and Going

The back ground to this story starts some time ago… [some time around 1990…after ‘Appetite for Destruction’ and before ‘Use Your Illusion’] where I used to attempt to join in with my good friend in playing the guitar, not having a guitar of my own I used to borrow my friends second guitar (Rockwood Hohner – Les Paul copy) this way of self teaching got me about 3 single string licks of a couple of Metallica intros!

Long story short, my brother Continue reading “Guitar – Getting up and Going”

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The Tamiya Madcap

The other day I was aimlessly browsing the internet and stumbled across an R/c site (Radio Controlled for the uneducated).

After delving in to try to find out what the best competition rc cars of today are performing like and which ones are best suited to rampaging there way around local parks terrorizing grannies and tormenting pooches, I decided to look up the model of the off-roader that I have when I was younger.

I was surprised to see Continue reading “The Tamiya Madcap”