Country blues tablature5/1/2024 Indeed I have often been surprised by dropping in to pub folkĬlubs just how many decent guitarists there are hidden away Juber, Duck Baker and Ralph McTell, as well as going to concertsĪnd folk clubs where we saw and heard the playing of many more. Stefan Grossman, John James, Martin Simpson, Woody Mann, Laurence The 'famous', or should that be 'infamous', players such as Jon Hardman, Joe Cainen, Ian Jesse, Martin Bell, Alan HooperĪnd a large number of others. Guitarists including Jon Gregson, Mike Martin, Chris Cassidy, We played together we met and played with many more excellent Or from Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop. Them - I think they are now available on the Shanachie label If you've not heard these I would recommend Johanssen and Claes Palmquist on Stefan Grossman's "Kicking Number of duets both of our own and taken from records of Lasse Kieran and I played together for many years, developing a fair Of the arrangements from the period can be downloaded at the Tab Downloads Page. ![]() Guitarists from around the country, and stimulating a dramaticĪmount of arranging, composing, playing and recording. (T'n'T)", in about 1979, dragging together some excellent Inspired Kieran and myself and a frenetic few years followed '00' stamped 001 is then I would like to know !!). (If anyone knows where a Dinsdale 12-fret to body Replace the fingerboard with a new design we had worked outīetween us. Workshop a few years later when I had given it back to him to Inside of the guitar as Number 001, was stolen from Bill Dinsdale's My '00', stamped on the neck-block on the Thankfully, Kieran wanted the '000' and I the '00' so there Shop and, as a consequence, a number of hours spent trying each. It ended up with a '00' and a '000' being delivered to the In the shop - it came out tops without a shadow of a doubt.īoth of us went out the next week and ordered one each from We were very impressed by this small bodied "00"-shaped guitarĪnd had compared its resonance and tone with all the others Played our way through every guitar in the shop Martins, Gibsons,Įpiphones, Fyldes and many more - but most importantly a 'Dinsdale'. We jumped at the chance.Īlmost four hours later we were let out in a total daze having Was on holiday but that he had the key and would be prepared Shop next door came out and mentioned the guitar shop owner Shut, but, just as we were about to leave the owner of the drum To look at a new acoustic instruments shop which had opened Gives it a good thrashing attempting to do various 'rock' tunes.Īfter a couple of years of a few friends coming round to playĪt my place every Tuesday evening, two of us went into Manchester Turned out to be a Yamaha FG180 - again an instrument which A few monthsįurther down the line and I was repeating the journey to lookįor a steel-strung instrument, which, after much deliberationĪnd nearly losing my left-hand fingers to a steel-strung, largeīodied Giannini with heavy gauge strings (like ship's hawsers), Instruments and the bass response was wonderful. It didn't seem to hurt my fingers as much as the steel-strung The final choice was down to the fact that Instrument with an unusual shape - I later found that this wasĬalled a 'Craviola'. At this stage I didn't know what I was looking forĪt all and after trying a few decided upon a Giannini nylon-strung ![]() Into Chester to Dawson's Music Shop and trying a number of guitars The very same potential neighbour problems. Who played any instruments (so I couldn't form a band) and I lived,Īt the time, in a small end terrace house which would have meantĪn acoustic guitar and an electric. Guitar, and drums were out of the question as I knew no one else ![]() The most attractive instruments appeared to be drums or To play almost any instrument for about 2 years prior to that Playing acoustic guitar, off and on, since 1974, having wanted
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