Too Many Things and Six Strings

Back in the dark ages before the world was on tap, being self taught was an interesting process. It mainly consisted of the following... 1. Rewinding and playing the same bit of tape over and over trying to work out what the **** was being played (or needle hopping) 2. Pausing the VHS and sitting as close as possible to the TV trying to see through the pause lines what was going on. Of course it didn't occur to me back then that they were miming, at least not till bands on TOTP started singing with bananas and things like that 3. Asking other guitarists how to do things, however invariably the answer was "I worked it out, work it out for yourself". I remember tapping being one example of this, the other guitarist wouldn't shows me at all, would just tap really quick and say "There you go". Cheers dude! 4. Buying Guitarist magazine for the tab to songs you didn't own and couldn't hear. This though was great. When you don't know the song, you

It's been ages since I've written and I apologise for that. I blame an equal mix of being busy and being lazy. Terrible excuses. The things we don't get round to doing define us as much as the things we do... So what have I been up to?! Well, a whole load of this and that! I've been re-recording songs properly for my new solo album. It's a little laborious when you work on these things just by yourself. The ears get tired, the will gets lazy. Instead of finding that sweet spot for the guitar sound through the proper setup, you fudge one out using the built in amps, but let's face it, that will never sound as good as the real thing. For now my beautiful girls are with me so there's no time for recording, it takes a back seat till later in September, but it's very nearly ready. Of course the next question will be which songs make it on there. There are four of which only two are needed and depending on the day I choose a different two. I'll get the