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Geetarman74
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Welcome Ben!
Hey there, thanks for inviting me into the group! My name is Paul, and I live in Armonk, NY (Westchester county, just north of NYC).
I started playing guitar in my early teens. My older brother was a guitarist and singer. I played in jazz band in school and outside of school played in the local hardcore punk scene. My musical interests were fairly eclectic, with some early guitar influences being Zappa, Adrian Belew, Neil Young, and others. Did not have the balls to stick it out in music, so went to college but continued to play in bands for fun and a few bucks, eventually branching out from the hardcore scene to also play in “regular” bar bands. I always had a keen interest in guitar gear. During high school, worked a whole year filming the school football team’s games to save up to by an old Gretsch. Put another couple of years part time work into ordering a Mesa Boogie (Mark IIC). Of course, I was so dumb and there was no Internet, so I really never figure out how to get any kind of good sound out of the thing. . . Eventually fell on some hard times and had to sell almost all of my gear.
After a few false starts, including grad school in English / film / philosophy and then working at a multimedia training software startup, drifted into law school. By that time, I really stopped playing guitar for the most part. For the past 27 years, I have been a copyright lawyer, with a lot of my work involving the business side of the music industry. Then, and I know it is a cliche at this point but it is what it is, during lockdown I started playing the one guitar I still had, and the fire got lit again. Have been acquiring some amazing gear and playing for my own enjoyment ever since. Plan on putting together a geezer band at some point, though work demands make that difficult. In the meantime, really enjoying learning to play again and learning more about the gear.
Anyway, happy to join the community.
I started playing guitar in my early teens. My older brother was a guitarist and singer. I played in jazz band in school and outside of school played in the local hardcore punk scene. My musical interests were fairly eclectic, with some early guitar influences being Zappa, Adrian Belew, Neil Young, and others. Did not have the balls to stick it out in music, so went to college but continued to play in bands for fun and a few bucks, eventually branching out from the hardcore scene to also play in “regular” bar bands. I always had a keen interest in guitar gear. During high school, worked a whole year filming the school football team’s games to save up to by an old Gretsch. Put another couple of years part time work into ordering a Mesa Boogie (Mark IIC). Of course, I was so dumb and there was no Internet, so I really never figure out how to get any kind of good sound out of the thing. . . Eventually fell on some hard times and had to sell almost all of my gear.
After a few false starts, including grad school in English / film / philosophy and then working at a multimedia training software startup, drifted into law school. By that time, I really stopped playing guitar for the most part. For the past 27 years, I have been a copyright lawyer, with a lot of my work involving the business side of the music industry. Then, and I know it is a cliche at this point but it is what it is, during lockdown I started playing the one guitar I still had, and the fire got lit again. Have been acquiring some amazing gear and playing for my own enjoyment ever since. Plan on putting together a geezer band at some point, though work demands make that difficult. In the meantime, really enjoying learning to play again and learning more about the gear.
Anyway, happy to join the community.
Voodoosound
Well-known member
Welcome! Happy to have you here.
Hi everyone. Long time member of TGP and was invited to this group. Originally from San Francisco now living in North Carolina for the past 25 years. Retired 8 weeks ago and it is 10x better than I thought it would be. Started playing at 17 and have been in a few bands but the largest venue I ever played was to maybe 1K people at the MGM Grand. I was usually the rhythm player with a few solos here and there, but I was never the best player and I can’t sing. Now that I’m retired I have the time to do some online lessons so looking forward to improving with age, particularly on my lead playing. After joining TGP I’ve spent a lot of $$$ on gear. A lot of gear rotated out and some has stayed….and as mentioned in another post I just brought 13 guitars to Casino Guitars to sell for me on consignment. My boys are 24 and 22 and both picked up the guitar 4-5 years ago which is pretty cool. My older son is really good at acoustic fingerstyle, something I can’t do at all. I can record clips using the Voice Recorder tool on my iPhone but I assume I need to translate it into something people can easily absorb or actually do something on YouTube…. Anyway, thanks for inviting me to the group.
Voodoosound
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Awesome!! Welcome aboard. You’ll hopefully find this to be a more informative and friendlier place than TGP. At least that’s what Beckstriads premise was for starting this.
awesome, man! Congratulations on your retirement. I have a long way to retirement, but looking forward to it when that day comes.
My name is Mark. I grew up around Memphis, including a bit in north Mississippi. For my undergrad, I did jazz at the University of North Texas, then went off into academia (theology and philosophy of religion) for grad school and a bit of publishing. After that I settled into a career doing sideman work around Dallas, as well as a bit of teaching. I get enough work in DFW that I haven't had to do road stuff. But I've also played or recorded with Eddie Money and the indie groups The Besnard Lakes and Midlake. I also have my own indie rock project (fantasticboom) that was released to an audience of crickets and some small amount of critical acclaim. Teaching-wise, I have around 15 students, including a couple of full-time pros (one of whom is the live guitarist for Linkin Park). I'm married and have 6 kids.
Amp-wise, I play a Tonkraf Phoenix and a pair of Fender Tone Master Princetons. Guitar-wise I play a pair of Lentzes, a Ronin Kingbird and a nice SG.
Amp-wise, I play a Tonkraf Phoenix and a pair of Fender Tone Master Princetons. Guitar-wise I play a pair of Lentzes, a Ronin Kingbird and a nice SG.
Voodoosound
Well-known member
Hi Mark, welcome!
Glad you are here, Mark. You are a killer player and make some of my favorite music. Did not know we have a southern connection. Ha ha.
Tinkercity
Member
Fantasticboom! Love Mark's music as well. @Suckamc Great to have you here man!
Thank you fellas! And yeah, @beckstriad I didn't know that either. We should chat about MS.
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