will post some pics of my guitars. My problem always was my dad was a cool blues player. he went to sea at age 14 in 1934 in Wales ( yes that was school leaving age back then for working class kids). His first trip was from Newport (Wales) taking cargo to Savannah Georgia. There was no return cargo so the ships company got a 6 month contract hauling goods (no idea what type ) up to Baton Rouge. The ship took on "black American" labour simply because the crew could get their own work done for little outlay and have an easy time. My dad being a young starter was not able to afford the luxury.
However he had the real luxury of working with Black Americans who spent their free time paying guitar, banjos, accordians, mouth organs etc. My dad could play accordian but got to learn basic guitar, he had verses and notes written on the backs of cigarette packs.
As I grew up I remember my father playing upstairs as my mother was no fan of the "Thump" Thump of his foot keeping time.
My dad never passed to me a single cord or anything. Years later just before he died he started to tell me how he had been taught and some of the great little lyrics he kept in his head and still had some on the cig packets " I got a girl shes so tall sleeps in the kitchen with her feet in the hall" etc. all back to that one year in 1934.
i was working overseas when my dad died and on my return everything was gone even his guitar. I made it a goal to learn the guitar. I am part way there but find studying a tad difficult i just end up going back over the things i like to play.. that is why I have joined Guitar tricks to give me an incentive to learn. I have a Standard American Strat, A handmade in Germany Hofner hollow body electric. An Acoustic ""Seagull" 25th aniversary. A fender Electro Acoustic and an old yamaha acoustic.
love Blues. Love the earl 1960ies British bands that sort out and played earlier American blues stuff and made it popular. Saw John Lee Hooker on his first visit to UK in 1963/4 spoke with him at the Brsitol corn exchange, only a handfull of people there and they were waiting to see the brand new group Manfred Mann (John Paul Jones singing) John lee was pissed off with the noise they were making setting up while he was playing. Afterwards while talking with him I mentioned my dads story and he held his guitar out and said play me something I just froze. that year i saw Eric Clapton in Newport in his early performance for the yardbirds ( Only 9 people in the audience, thats another story) Any way you do not want an old guy babbling on. Just saying Hi, and hope i can improve and maybee show some stuff. took a three year memebership , so i have to stick at it lol
Regards Ray French