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Jeremy, 36
Married, two boys. 7 and 15 months
Live in Richmond Hill, GA
Favorite food: Indian cuisine, pho, Cajun, and anything else spicy except I'm over Mexican food, for now. I suffer from acid reflux so my choice in favorite foods makes me an idiot.
I'm a stay at home dad, formally trained as a chef, and studying to be a pharmacy technician for when my youngest starts preschool.
Hobbies: I have cyclical obsessions but playing guitar always stays. I build and program robots, play video games, perform close up magic, skateboard, strip and rebuild bicycles (of the 10, 12 speed variety) read and watch horror, particularly zombies and Dean Koontz/Stephen King type stuff. Love fishing but don't get to do it much. Love firearms and shooting. Plan to get a gunsmithing degree eventually.
Love snow skiing and snowboarding but haven't been able to go in a very long time. I also write stories, poetry, and music.

I've been playing guitar (and dabbling in drums and piano) for 20ish years but really got serious about theory and technique in the past 2 years.
I play guitar because my dad always did and still does and I really love it. I have moderate social anxiety and depression and it's a great outlet. I'd love to play in a band and sing but my anxiety keeps me from doing so. I never think I'm as good as someone might say I am so I'm very hesitant to play and sing for people.

Favorite/influential bands and artists:
Hendrix, Satriani, Vai, Eric Johnson, Wes Montgomery, Barney Kessel, Charlie Christian, Alice in Chains, The Smashing Pumpkins, Rush, Primus, God Street Wine, Snow Patrol, Lenny Kravitz, Pink Floyd, Megadeth, Metallica, Rob Zombie, Helmet, Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog, Simon and Garfunkel, Cat Stevens, really tons more but that's the gist.

No band since high school and we didn't even have a name and only played technically 2 gigs ever. One at a bar and once at my high school. I was then moved to playing bass which I wasn't interested in and then they tried to push me to keyboards so I quit. It had nothing to do with my guitar skill, they just kept adding members and pushing me to the side so their friends could play. The only guy I knew was the lead guitarist and he ended up quitting when I did.

Equipment:
Hofner CT Verythin
Squier Affinity Tele
Bullet Strat
Yamaha FG730S
Mustang 1

I've only ever met Jeremy from the forums. Went and saw his band play when I lived in Chicago. It was a good time. Wish I could have hung longer but my kids made me cut it short that night. They weren't with me, I just had to leave.
I'd love to meet more of this group. I'm learning a lot and laugh daily on these forums.

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Your real first name and age: Jesse, 36
marital status and children: Married, 2 daughters aged 8 months and 3 years
where you live: central CT
what you do for a living: Audio Engineer/Project Manager for an event production company
your favorite food: pizza
hobbies: nerdy music stuff, hiking

tell us who your favorite musicians are, who influenced you, why you play: I love a pretty wide range of music. Some of my favs and influences include Peter Gabriel, Faith No More, Jeff Buckley, Willie Nelson, Santana, Wilco, Dinosaur Jr., Quicksand, Dylan, The Allman Bros., Pearl Jam, Ben Harper, Queens of the Stone Age, The Clash, Black Sabbath, and the list goes on. I play because it's ingrained as a part of who I am and can no longer function without doing so.

your band and what your playlist looks like: I'm in several "projects" right now. The main one doesn't even have a name yet. It's not a proper gigging band (none of my projects really are), so much as it is a studio band. It's also kind of all over the map as far as influences so far. I haven't really gigged (performed, I've done plenty of sound gigs) more than a handful of times in the past few years (since my first daughter was born), but I'll probably be doing so a bit this summer. Pretty much all about original stuff, all the way around.

tell us a bit about your equipment, pics are always welcome:
elec guitars - Hamer Special P90, Hamer Special Custom, Fender AVRI '57 reissue Strat, Fender HRR 60's Strat, DGN Custom, Ovation Preacher, Kay Speed Demon, Kramer Focus 6000, Charvel CX290, Epi LP Custom
acoustics - Ovation Balladeer, Weissenborn Style 3, Kent banjo, Fender Mandolin
amps - VAC Hayseed 30, MusicMan HD130, Leslie Model 900
plus a bunch of drums, cymbals, recording and PA gear

what other forumites do you know, have met in person, talked to on the telephone Errrr, nobody really. There are a few HC'ers that I've met or talked to who may lurk or post occasionally.
 
Your real first name and age

Tomas, 33 years old.

marital status and children

Living together with my girlfriend, no kids.

where you live

Utrecht, The Netherlands.

what you do for a living

I stare at a screen and do things. Sometimes I drive around in either exotic or mundane locations. Not interesting to give any further details. :embarrassed:

your favorite food

I like a lot of different foods, I couldn't really pick a favourite. Most of what I eat would fall under European or Asian cuisine (those are two very broad fields, of course).

hobbies

Music and cooking. And eating. :embarrassed: Because of the latter, I'm trying to add "running" to the list, but so far I've not been as active as I should be.

tell us who your favorite musicians are, who influenced you, why you play

I started playing in the late 90s. My musical tastes have shifted quite a bit since then. Late 90s Britpop was big in Holland when I started playing, that's where I got my first start, but pretty quickly I became more interested in the 60s rock music that inspired it in the first place. Jimi Hendrix first inspired me to try to say something on the guitar.

I started listening to jazz about two years after I started playing the guitar, and trying to play it as well. I now feel that this came too quickly for me, I wasn't really musically ready for it yet, but on the positive side, I did learn a lot of theory studying jazz music, and it influenced my improvisational sensibility a lot. Wes Montgomery was my first inspiration for jazz guitar. I don't listen to jazz as much as I used to, and I'm out of touch with developments in contemporary jazz. My favourite jazz artists are John Coltrane and Charles Mingus, not just because of the way they played, but also because of the way they composed, and the vision they had for music.

I got into flamenco guitar sort of by accident, when I was in my mid-twenties. I was studying at the university in Delft at the time, and a friend of mine wanted to check out a flamenco guitar course at the cultural centre. He didn't want to go alone, knew I played the guitar, asked if I would join... I signed up and things went quickly from there. I kept playing jazz for a while but spent most of my time practising flamenco guitar. With regards to right hand technique, I essentially had to start from scratch, having been used only to playing with a pick. I've not always been the most diligent student, but in recent years I've upped my game, travelling to Spain frequently to take lessons, and trying to achieve a stage-worthy level of technique and repertoire. Flamenco is very diverse and enormously difficult so I think I have a lifetime of studying still ahead of me. Musicians that inspire me are all quite obvious choices; guitarists like Paco De Lucia (of course), Tomatito, Pepe Habichuela, Vicente Amigo, Juan Carlos Romero, singers like Camaron, Estrella Morente, Carmen Linares, Arcangel, Miguel Poveda, and more "antiguo" ones like El Chocolate, Antonio Mairena, etc.

Listening to flamenco got me thinking, if so much music and so many great artists come (mostly) out of Andalusia alone, what more does the world have to offer? I've become very interested in what is unfortunately generally referred to as "world music" (I dislike the term because it makes no sense to lump together West-African pop, Argentinian Tango, Pakistani Qawwali, and a thousand other styles of music into one genre, but that's what happens). There are too many artists to list in this thread. Playing flamenco and accompanying dancers also got me interested in how music relates to dance in other styles.

your band and what your playlist looks like

I play in an fusion ensemble of sorts, our setlist consists of material from the Middle East, the Balkans, Spain, Greece, and other places. We play a lot of traditional material, arranged to suit our rather non-traditional line-up (guitar, cimbalom, tar, bass guitar, dance), and we play some compositions of our own as well.

tell us a bit about your equipment, pics are always welcome

I play an Alhambra flamenco guitar, a good quality student model. I'd love to get a more professional instrument, but they're damn expensive. No pics. It looks like a generic Spanish guitar, I'm sure all of you can visualise it. :)

what other forumites do you know, have met in person, talked to on the telephone

No one.
 
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Robert 40

Engaged, 2 kids from a previous marriage, one on the way

Production superintendent for a local oil company.

Influences are an eclectic bunch of players that somehow seem to fit. But dad was my biggest influence.

Hobbies fishing, hunting, skydiving (but I haven't jumped for about 3 years), military history (mostly WWII)

Never met any of the forumites, but close enough to a couple that maybe one day.
 
Your real first name and age: Hugo 57
marital status and children: Married (28 years), two children (both mid-twenties)
where you live: <<<<<<
what you do for a living: Househusband, carer, loafer, wastrel...
your favorite food: changes with the wind; currently home-baked bread
hobbies: cricket, photography, walking
tell us who your favorite musicians are, who influenced you, why you play: Jimi and Jimmy made me want to pick up a guitar. Rather later, Julian Bream and John Williams made me want to learn to play one.
your band and what your playlist looks like: not in a band. I can only play well when nobody is listening to me. :embarrassed:
tell us a bit about your equipment, pics are always welcome: the guitar that I play most often is a telecaster. the only other one that I have a picture of to hand is an inexpensive Manuel Rodriguez classical guitar.
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what other forumites do you know, have met in person: anybody remember richierobins and color_of_fire? They're the only two that I've met.
 
My first name is Slartibartfast, ok, it's David. I'm 45
Single, no kids. GF has 2 grown kids.
Cleveland
I'm in IT support. :(
Favorite food? Italian: pizza, calzones, stuffed shells, cannelloni, fettucini alfredo...you get the idea
Hobbies, xbox gaming and guitar

Favorite musicians? Guitarists would be: Joe Bonamassa, Jimmy Page, Joe Walsh, Santana, Alex Lifeson
And I'm new to guitar, playing a Yamaha Pacifica! Who wants pics of that?? :)

Haven't met or talked to any forumites.
 
Your real first name and age - Michael, 45
marital status and children - married, 2 kids (4 & 6)
where you live - Orange County, NY
what you do for a living - Site Acquisition Manager, Deployment (basically I do the real estate deals for cell towers), and occasional pro guitarist on the side
your favorite food - good NY pizza
hobbies - music, surfing, motorcycles

I think my biggest influences would probably be Jimmy Page, Peter Frampton, Elliot Easton, Andy Summers, EVH, Paul Gilbert, Mick Taylor, Randy Rhoads.

I'm in a few bands right now, as well as the other projects I get to be involved in like the Broadway stuff I get to do. The shameless self-promoter that I am, it'd be hard for most of you to have missed the threads I post occasionally about my musical exploits.

Here is some of my gear:













Never met any of the other forumites yet.
 
Your real first name and age:
Doug, two months shy of 50

marital status and children:
2nd and final marriage, 1 son 17, 3 older step kids that created 5 grandkids, 1 that lives with us

where you live:
Clear Lake area near Houston

what you do for a living:
IT security for a huge engineering company

your favorite food:
Cajun, and really good Italian and Mexican comes in close for second

hobbies:
Family, guitar, music, cycling, reading, woodworking, gardening, outdoors

tell us who your favorite musicians are, who influenced you:
These lists would be humongous and growing, as my musical tastes continue to grow!

tell us a bit about your equipment, pics are always welcome:
Guitars: Gretsch G5435t Pro Jet, Hell "No.2", Squier CV 50's Strat, Reverend Club King 290, Taylor GS Mini spruce
Bass: Squier Vintage Modified Jaguar Bass Short Scale
Amps: Fender Super Champ X2 Head, Egnater Tweaker 15, Fender Mustang I

Pedals: Red Witch Seven Sisters Eve Tremolo, EarthQuaker Devices Hoof Reaper Octave Fuzz, Catalinbread RAH, Hardwire Supernatural Ambient Verb, Wampler Ego Compressor, Big Muff Pi with Tone Wicker, Electro Harmonix Neo Mistress flanger, Voodoo Lab Sparkle Drive, TC Electronics Gravy Tri Chorus & Vibrato, Budda Budwah wah, BYOC Boost/OD-2, BYOC Mouse 2.0 Distortion, MXR Carbon Copy

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I have yet to meet any of you douche nozzles in person. A few of you somewhat newer peep's live in the area. Perhaps when I return to a day shift my time will be more manageable.
 
Your real first name and age - Phil - 45
marital status and children - married, 3.5 yr. old son
where you live - Kensington, MD (DC)
what you do for a living - Manage engineers for an information security product & services company
your favorite food - Buffalo wings
hobbies - Buying guitar gear, music, beer, cooking

tell us who your favorite musicians are, who influenced you, why you play - My first three bands I fell in love with as a kid were Aerosmith, Kiss and Ted Nugent. Hard rock, then metal, then hair bands, then blues, then jazz. These days I geek out on Robben Ford, John Scofield, Chris Duarte, Warren Haynes and about a million other guitarists.

your band and what your playlist looks like - I haven't gigged in almost 20 years. Had a record deal when I was 18 playing in a hard rock band that didn't last too long. Played in a bunch of blues bands in the late 80's and was fortunate to back some singers way too good for me to play with. I was in James Peterson's http://www.answers.com/topic/james-peterson-1 live band for a long time.

tell us a bit about your equipment, pics are always welcome - Bought and sold a ton of gear over the last 2 years. Currently have custom built strat, 1974 Gibson Standard, Breedlove Dreadnaught, vintage Silvertone acoustic, 2012 PRS Signature Limited, 2010 PRS Wilcutt DC-245 Soapbar, 2000 PRS McCarty, 2009 PRS Hollowbody II, 2012 Reverend Manta Ray HB-FM, Traveler Pro travel guitar, several Ukuleles, PRS Original Sewell amp, PRS 2 Channel H amp, PRS MDT Custom amp, Orange AD-5 amp, Frenzel Sweet Little 15 amp and a Vox AC4TV.

what other forumites do you know, have met in person, talked to on the telephone - jaxn slim in person. Via skype Mark Wein, reverend1, sunvalleylaw, mnewb1, some other I'm sure I have forgotten.
 
I'm Cindy, I'm a Pisces. I like Chihuahuas and Chinese noodles.

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