Nice (clean and fast) site!
Glad to be here (glad to be anywhere
)
A little about myself: Been playing since 1970 or '71 (whenever slotcars dropped out of sight), both bass and guitar. As far as the bassist vs guitarist thing, I can't really take sides because I've always been just about exactly 50/50 with both. Started on bass though (if you don't count 'strumming' on my older sister's used tennis racquet), went quickly to acoustic guitar, then back and forth ever since.
Self taught at first just going through Beatles song books (that hot pink one and then the red one), same with the Rolling Stones, got into open tunings a bit because of Keef, then got a little into Hawaiian Kiho Alu (slack key).
Home recording interest started around then, with two of those little mono cassette recorders, bouncing tracks.
More Stones, some originals (now long forgotten), back into Beatles, then Johnny Winter, Mahavishnu via Miles Davis Live Evil, Yes and odd meters, Keith Jarrett, Santana with McLaughlin, Carlos and John on their own, etc. - not that I played any of that stuff or was really that good, but that's who I was listening to.
Then a bit of college following a music composition degree, which I didn't complete.
Live gigging with a wedding band doing ballads and disco music, then on to playing 80s rock/pop in various bands.
And being the eager fresh-out-of-college conquer-the-music-scene person I was, I delved into Reggae quite a bit - before it morphed into the thing known in Hawaii as
Jawaiian.
Long story on that.
Then a 14 year hiatus from music. Didn't even pop the cases open to polish the instruments let alone play them.
Got a 'call' to come back to music and answered.
Home recording more traditional 'non Jawaiian' Hawaiian music, and having fun with that, playing lots of bass and finally learning the 'fine points' of acoustic rhythm playing.
Now back playing electric guitar for fun (no profit), and messing around with a 6-string lap steel recently gotten off eBay.
Be 53 in a month or two, but I'm tellin' everyone I'll be 52 (again). Doesn't matter at this point I guess
Most recent purchase is a Fender MIM Tele - which I can't seem to put down for some reason.
Oh, I'm left-handed by the way, with strings reversed if that's of any interest.
Best regards and glad to be here!
Rick
me to the forum!
