The DU Lounge

After 6 yrs of piano, I decided I wanted a more vocal "musical voice".
At age ten I was playing my brother's acoustic guitar more than he was.

I knew that I needed an electric to get the riff that inspired me to play:
Jack Marshall's killer riff in "The Ballad of Thunder Road"...*guitarists please
note that Mr. Marshall continues to riff throughout the song! (an EQ helps bring out
the stuff he's playing).

....but had to settle for a $60 acoustic. Played first club at 14...but it was at age 21 when
my playing was completely drowned out by rude drunk patrons that I vowed never to play in a bar
again without an electric in my hands...

I am entirely self-taught books and much rarer vids I devoured..

I was starting to concentrate my efforts on slide, "just intonation"/Angels' Tuning in open tunings
A and E I had already explored on my acoustic... enthralled as I was with the magical
solos of Ry Cooder and David Lindley.I decide to take the hardest road. Lead and rhythm slide.
exclusively in standard tuning; requiring massive attention to two-handed muting. it allows
me to play extremely distinctive lines..IN ANY KEY.

A modern blues solo

A bunch of bands, rock blues reggae afro-pop back to originals blues/rock, then
Christian rock with a really gifted singer and finally back to reggae...

Here's an instrumental I did for a place I was working at, my bandleader of the classic
blues/rockabilly band I was in at the time is the 2nd guitarist....

My setup for the past decade has been my beloved orphan Parker, into a SlideRig into a Klon and from thence
Into selectable drive, echo, and reverb pedals, split into stereo, into my pair of Fender Pro Jr's 15w each.(although with a 5751
my modded Jr probably tops out around 12w)

We may hear from ProfessorGAC too!