Hi guys! I've been checking out your site and I think maybe I can find the help and motivation I finally need to pick up a musical instrument with sincere desire and intent to practice and learn. Of course, that instrument would be an ELECTRIC guitar.
I bought a pretty nice acoustic about 10 years ago but I never applied myself, probably because the 'acoustic sound' isn't really my thing. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy listening to music with acoustic guitar in it, but strummin' or listening to that church campfire music almost makes me want to go 'John Belushi at the toga party!'
Ya gotta understand, I'm a machinist in my later 30's, and I work with.....? That's right, M E T A L! Yeah, I still have all my digits, so theoretically, I should be able to play a guitar, right? Anyway, lately I've had an uncontrolable and overwhelming urge to PROJECT - midlife crisis eh? maybe, I can't explain it, I just feel it! I'm ready to make some noise, probably some horribly loud and bad noise, but that's ok becuase it will be mine, I will own it - unless I steal it from someone else. Even if it is awful noise, it won't be any worse than most of the wretched stuff that ya hear on the
radio these days..... what do you call it???? That ain't music from where I come from.
The first record I ever bought with my own money was Zeppelin 4. I was 9 or 10. Remember those large thin flat plastic discs? I miss album art. My dad gave me his old tube amp and turntable and bought me some decent Radio Shack speakers. That was my first stereo setup. I wish I still had that old tube amp.... man, that thing got HOT when you turned it on! And it hummed.. coool!
Wow, Sorry, I just wandered on to memory lane... SLAP! There are some sounds I definitely want to reproduce and there are going to be songs and solos I'm going to want to copy, but, I would also like to learn to improvise and learn more about MUSIC in general. As I've gotten older, I've become more intrigued and respectful of music(some), and I think I enjoy listening to it more than I used to. Now I want to be a part of it.
Anyway, I hope you folks here will help nudge me along the path of musical righteousness whenever the need may be. - Stalkofta
