On Wednesday, November 29th I drove out to Charlottesville, Virginia’s delightfully charming Jefferson Theatre to see the first concert of the most recent leg of the Richard Thompson Electric Trio’s U.S. tour. It was the first time I’d seen Thompson in person since 1999, and my amazing wife had bought me a front…
Click here to see all of the previous posts! October, November and December 1988 were very busy times in my life, and guitar wise, they were packed with exciting developments. I made friends with more guitar players than I’d ever known before, all of whom exposed me to music I’d never heard,…
Click here to see all of the previous posts! September 1988 was the most consequential month of my life: I moved away from home to attend Hampshire College, where I met my future wife and (importantly for this blog) tons of guitar players who expanded my musical horizons and opportunities. The…
Click here to see all of the previous posts! August 1988 was the last month I spent at home before moving to college where my life changed forever. I still spent my time working at a Caldor store in Warminster, PA and nervously throwing up whenever I dwelled too much on the thought of moving…
Click here to see all of the previous posts! UPDATE! If you’ve been reading the blog for awhile you know that I always refer to my super guitar teacher from the 80’s, Jim McCarthy. After I last saw Jim in 1992 I lost track of him, but I finally found him this month! He’s…
Click here to see all of the previous posts! June 1988 is when I graduated from high school, and just as that marked a major epoch in my life, there was a lot in the June, 1988 issue of Guitar Player that reminds me very vividly of what I was doing musically at the time.…
Click here to see all of the previous posts! The May 1988 issue seems to be chock full of the kind of variety that made GP so great back in the day, especially for a young person still learning about music, musical genres, and the instrument itself. I was already…
Click here to see all of the previous posts! April of 1988 was a big month for me, as it was when I decided to attend Hampshire College in the fall; that was a life-altering decision in many ways, not least of which being that it is where I met my wife! Guitar…
Welcome back to “30 Years Ago”, where I take a close look at the issue of Guitar Player magazine from exactly thirty years prior to discuss what I gleaned from the issue at the time and what I can learn from re-reading so many decades later. I also provide a Spotify playlist that includes music that…
Welcome back to “30 Years Ago”, where I take a close look at the issue of Guitar Player magazine from exactly thirty years prior to discuss what I gleaned from the issue at the time and what I can learn from re-reading so many decades later. I also provide a Spotify playlist that includes music that…