Introduce Yourself

petero

Petero...just my first name and fist letter of last
West Yorkshire...Gods own county
To see my grandson become great on guitar
My Red Special...Hand built by me
Go your own way...Fleetwood Mac

BBD

Hello folks here’s me!

 Q1: Black Box Design, my furniture making business

 Q2: Anglesey since a year ago, marvellous

 Q3: To play subconsciously well enough to move people emotionally

Q4: 1995 Cunetto Relic Nocaster, but my latest Eastman SB59/v-bk comes damn close

Q5: Too hard - something live from Lucinda Williams c.2004 with the astonishing Doug Pettibone on guitar maybe? 

spev11

Q1:  Where did you username come from?

1st day wearing glasses in comprehensive school, someone called me "speccy evans", they then shortened it, I don't mind it, been called a lot worse

spev11

Q1:  Where did you username come from?

1st day wearing glasses in comprehensive school, someone called me "speccy evans", they then shortened it, I don't mind it, been called a lot worse

spev11

Odd it's not posting my entire reply, ah well

S56035

Q1:  Where did you username come from?

Its my employee number from a company I used to work for. I regret it now, can I change it?

Q2:  Where in the world/country are you? Luton, England.

Q3:  What's your main musical ambition?

To have fun at home on my own. Or to play Wembley. In the 80s!

Q4:  Your "best" bit of gear - just the one? I bloody love my PRS CE 

Q5:  Your #1 ever track - again, just the one?

Dyers Eve by Metallica. 

JemBullock

Q1:  Where did you username come from?

My nickname is Jem, Jeremy just sounds too posh...I'm originally from Grimsby so clearly not, the Bull comes from Bullock

Q2:  Where in the world/country are you?

Currently residing in the the lovely town of Stroud , Gloucestershire, what a great place to live.

Q3:  What's your main musical ambition?

To keep on gigging in bands for as long as health lets me, I just love it.

Q4:  Your "best" bit of gear - just the one?

My Cornell Romany Plus 12 combo, superb amp.

Q5:  Your #1 ever track - again, just the one?

Polaris - Jimmy Eat World, love that band, love that song.

spev11

One more go and if it doesnt work then I'm obviously not as computer savvy as i thought I was :=)

Q1:  Where did you username come from?

1st day in comprehensive school wearing glasses someone called me Speccy Evans (my surname), kids being evil they shortened it to Spev (i've been called a lot worse so its ok)

Q2:  Where in the world/country are you?

Swansea

Q3:  What's your main musical ambition?

To get to grips with the guitar after many years of just being really bloody awful at it

Q4:  Your "best" bit of gear - just the one? 

My Taylor Big Baby

Q5:  Your #1 ever track - again, just the one?

Jeff Beck-where Were You , although if you ask me next week i'll change my mind

yocky

Wotcha

Q1:  Where did you username come from?

We had a dartboard in the office when I started work about 400 years ago. My surname is Wilson, so I was nicknamed Jocky after the legendary Scottish athlete. My Dutch boss pronounced it Yocky for some reason, so that stuck.

Q2:  Where in the world/country are you? 

Deepest Peckham, SE London

Q3:  What's your main musical ambition?

Someone asked me that last weekend when I said I played guitar, stumped me tbh. I'd never really thought about it. I just keep ploughing away because it makes me happier than just about anything else I could be spending my time doing.

Q4:  Your "best" bit of gear - just the one?

Gonna say my Larrivee D-01. It's not the greatest guitar in the world but I'd be heartbroken if anything happened to it.

Q5:  Your #1 ever track - again, just the one?

Pfft, depends on the hour. Let's go with Teenage Riot by Sonic Youth

What a great forum this is btw. At a time when it could be easy to conclude that 75% of humanity is beyond the pale, to come here and find that only 20% are complete bellends - well I like those odds

BingMan

Hi

Long time lurker... thought it time I get involved given there isn't really all that much to do these days!

Q1:  Where did you username come from?

Bing - a nickname I've had since I was a kid

Q2:  Where in the world/country are you?

London

Q3:  What's your main musical ambition? 

When first picked up a guitar aged 12 it was to be Noel Gallagher. Now in my thirties, I just want to play nice guitars, in the comfort of my own home... and not so loudly I wake up my wife and child. I wouldn't mind doing some open mic nights again though

Q4:  Your "best" bit of gear - just the one?

Yesterday it was my Collings CJ35... today it's my Collings 0002h... tomorrow it'll probably be my National... or something else entirely. Gotta show them all some love. But that wasn't really the question was it! If the house was burning down I guess it'd be the 0002h. The national is too heavy to run with (and it'd probably survive a fire to be fair)

Q5:  Your #1 ever track - again, just the one?

yikes... the impossible question. Even harder than the last. I've been Digging Shuggie Otis 'sweet thang' a lot recently... 

SVguitar

Q1:  Where did you username come from?

Pretty simple, I play the guitar in SV... Sredni Vashtar. Real name is out there if you look hard enough, but music is not my profession so happy to keep things (slightly) anonymous. 

Q2:  Where in the world/country are you?

South London

Q3:  What's your main musical ambition?

To  co-write and record a  handful of songs that endure in some way, even if it's only me that listens to them again and again.  

Q4:  Your "best" bit of gear - just the one?

Probably  the 88' Fender Jazzmaster I got  as a teenager and still pick up almost every day, 35 years later.

Q5:  Your #1 ever track - again, just the one?

Today, I would say it's A Strange Day, by the Cure.

ed.lecter

Hi, my name is Ed. I found this forum a couple years ago.
Q1:  Where did you username come from?
It´s a mix beetwen my real name and one of my fav movie characters.
Q2:  Where in the world/country are you?
Madrid, Spain
Q3:  What's your main musical ambition?
I would  like to be a proffesional musician 
Q4:  Your "best" bit of gear - just the one?
My Washburn parallaxe
Q5:  Your #1 ever track - again, just the one? 
Mm Marty Friedman- Night

rmro

Q1:  It's a reduced form of my surname backwards, forwards is an artist name I record under

Q2:  London

Q3:  Never to stop

Q4:  Cocoquantus

Q5:  Quadrant Dub Pt2

Barquentine

Hi Folks, ageing guitarist here. Gigged all my life until lockdown and still in hiding for now.

Brio

Q1:  Where did you username come from?

Not the musical term but the name of a large RC Glider I loved.

Q2:  Where in the world/country are you?

I alternate between Weymouth and near Didcot. Thanks to Covid it's been Didcot for the last 5 months.

Q3:  What's your main musical ambition?

To seduce the pants off the ladies.

Q4:  Your "best" bit of gear - just the one?

Early 50s Relic Strat from '97.

Q5:  Your #1 ever track - again, just the one?

Villanova Junction by the Hamsters. It'll be something different tomorrow.

DCS222

Q1:  Where did you username come from?  - name initials and important numbers

Q2:  Where in the world/country are you? - English Northern Monkey 

Q3:  What's your main musical ambition? - Improve, record, enjoy.

Q4:  Your "best" bit of gear - just the one? - PRS513

Q5:  Your #1 ever track - again, just the one? It changes with my mood, but Marillion’s “Grendel” is always worth listening to!

 

TCB

Hello all you four, five, six & seven stringers

I’m a bassist really but I’ve also got a couple of strats & a tele which I noodle on.  Over the last year or two I’ve been learning songs on the guitar from my youth … Stranglers, Nirvana and more recent bands like Feeder and Hard Fi etc and now I’ve got to learn to play the blues!

Q1:  My user name TCB comes from Elvis’ backing band, Taking Care of Business.

Q2:  I live in the West Midlands, just south of Coventry.

Q3:  My main musical ambition is to get out there and play more gigs, currently on bass but eventually also on guitar!

Q4:  My "best" bit of guitar gear is my yellow Fender strat.

Q5:  My #1 track ever is ‘Hanging Around’ by the Stranglers.

TCB

60cycles

Greetings all;
New to all this, so not much to share instrument or career-wise am afraid. Due apologies.

Q1:  Given the forum's focus, that's probably the hardest to answer; i will retain the built up suspense if i may, keep you all guessing for a while longer?

* Climax purchases separate, read terms and instructions.

Q2:  Athens, Greece. It's hot, unorganised, a touch backwards and overall not a sane person's first choice, but it's home nonetheless. Or so i've been telling myself ever since returning from London. Have yet to convince me, lol

Q3:  To learn. Same as always

Q4:  Am only getting started, am actually about to to be more precise, so.. on a broader level but still audio related, My Stax headphone collection i'd think. Love them to bits.

Q5: Tough. Not even sure how i'd go about defining #1 to be honest.. if we go by times listened to? Definitely something from Pink Floyd/David Gilmour. Still tough.

Powderfinger

Hello, One and all,

Q1:  Where did you username come from?
Neil Young song - I liked the whole album so nearly went for "Rust Never Sleeps" also a great Oz Rock Band

Q2:  Where in the world/country are you?
UK, Bonnie Scotland

Q3:  What's your main musical ambition?
To be able to play a guitar in a guitar shop as well as I do on stage.

Q4:  Your "best" bit of gear - just the one?
Well, if I have to.. a 1959 hand wired Charlie Watkins custom amp

Q5:  Your #1 ever track - again, just the one?
Impossible... but OK, just pulling one out of the hat, Thin Lizzy  "Dancin' in the Moonlight"

Been playing for about 40 years, mostly blues, rock, and Jazz when I'm chillin, know a thing or two about
guitars, gear, etc so hope I'm able to contribute.

Cheers

Powderfinger

spooner248

Hi, I'm Eric
1. Just a random made-up name
2. I live in central Europe at the moment.
3. Write stuff that I don't hate.
4. My 85 Strat.
5. Kiss from a Rose.