My First Guitar
eBook - ePub

My First Guitar

Tales of True Love and Lost Chords

  1. 368 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

My First Guitar

Tales of True Love and Lost Chords

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Foreword by Andy Summers
  6. Prologue
  7. Traveling Seven Hours for a Cup of Coffee
  8. Les Paul
  9. Howard Hite on Elvis’ First Guitar
  10. Scotty Moore
  11. Aaron Shearer
  12. Dick Dale
  13. Albert Lee
  14. Jorge Morel
  15. George Benson
  16. Roger McGuinn
  17. Taj Mahal
  18. John Hammond
  19. Seymour Duncan
  20. A Guitar on the Make
  21. Eli Kassner
  22. Paco Peña
  23. Pat Martino
  24. Bob Margolin
  25. Richard Thompson
  26. Steve Howe
  27. Peter Frampton
  28. Frederic Hand
  29. Richard Bruné
  30. Carlos Barbosa-Lima
  31. Juan Martín
  32. Dennis Koster
  33. The Assad Brothers
  34. Wings on My Fingers
  35. Carlos Santana
  36. Jimmie Vaughan
  37. Pat Metheny
  38. Christian Frederick Martin IV
  39. Ralph Towner
  40. Sonny Landreth
  41. Lurrie Bell
  42. Rory Block
  43. David Tronzo
  44. Thirty Minutes Inside a Guitar Shop
  45. Melissa Etheridge
  46. Muriel Anderson
  47. Tommy Emmanuel
  48. Martin Taylor
  49. Dave Alvin
  50. Bob Taylor
  51. Graham Parker
  52. Wolf Marshall
  53. Daniel Lanois
  54. Sharon Isbin
  55. The Music Conservatory of Life
  56. David Russell
  57. Roland Dyens
  58. Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
  59. Alex Lifeson
  60. Steve Lukather
  61. Joe Satriani
  62. Steve Vai
  63. Gary Lucas
  64. Michael McKean
  65. Christopher Guest
  66. A Sheepdog Raised by Ducks
  67. Kerry Keane
  68. Lee Ranaldo
  69. Paul Reed Smith
  70. Vernon Reid
  71. Marty Friedman
  72. Joey Santiago
  73. Benjamin Verdery
  74. David Leisner
  75. Tom Morello
  76. Daron Malakian
  77. Tracii Guns
  78. Joscho Stephan
  79. Johnny Hiland
  80. Andy McKee
  81. Fabio Zanon
  82. Jonny Lang
  83. Frank Vignola
  84. A Cup of Coffee with Jimmy Page
  85. Jimmy Page
  86. Glossary
  87. Guitar Makes/Models Mentioned in This Book
  88. Acknowledgments
  89. About the Author
  90. Copyright
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