My First Guitar
Tales of True Love and Lost Chords
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- 9,99 €
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- 9,99 €
Beschreibung des Verlags
Julia Crowe interviews the world's leading guitarists, from Les Paul, Carlos Santana, Peter Frampton and Jimmie Vaughan, Joe Satriani, Melissa Etheridge, to Lee Ranaldo, George Benson and Jimmy Page. In interviews that offer an intimate insights into their beginnings as they recall their first instrument and share their memories of the inspiration, challenges, and successes of their early days.
"Collecting these tales has been admittedly addictive because each story is as unique, compelling and illuminating as the performer... My intent was simple - to ask the artists to speak for themselves." - Julia Crowe
Crossing a vast array of genres, showing the common experience of all guitarists, Julia Crowe offers intimate and deeply human insights into a musician's beginnings as her interviewees recall their first instrument and share their memories of the inspiration, challenges, and successes of those early days.
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This entertaining collection of interviews addresses "how guitarists came into owning their first guitar." A broad range of famous, international artists representing almost every area of guitar music Les Paul and George Benson in jazz; Lee Ranaldo and Peter Frampton in rock; David Russell in classical; Juan Martin in flamenco; and more describe what Sonny Landreth calls "the magic I first felt with this instrument." The guitars themselves range from cheap Sears and Kay acoustics (Steve Lukather) and Teisco Del Ray electrics (Steve Vai) to classic models such as the Les Paul Standard (Pat Martino) and the Fender Stratocaster (Jonny Lang). But regardless of model, and the many variations on how and where musicians first got their guitars, Crowe captures what all of her interview subjects share: a love, sublime or offbeat, of the instruments that inspired them to make music. "hey're somewhat human," opines classical guitarist and composer Benjamin Verdery, "and memories of a particular time in your life come flooding right back."
