About me... my name is Andy, I'm 36 and live in London, UK. I do IT management / programming as a job and I've never played guitar before (well, up to around 3 weeks ago!)
Aspirations: Just to be able to hack out some tunes!
Gear: I picked up a Mexican Strat and a Roland micro-cube.
Influences:
I got into metal back when I was 13 - went to see Dio, Yngwie, Queen etc. live back then. I definitely like a crunchy sound - I'm more into the feel of the music than high speed shredding. Favourite bands are
Rush
NIN
Led Zep
Marillion
Riverside
A Perfect Circle / Tool
Mansun
Electronic / Smiths
Metallica
Thin Lizzy
Favourite guitarists:
Alex Lifeson
Jimmy Page
J J Cale
Ali Farka Toure
Prince
Why am I here? Well I finally picked up a guitar a few weeks back after seeing NIN live in their current tour. Aaron North was just amazing on guitar - I had to finally get myself one!!
I've started with a few books, practicing cords and trying to get smoothly into Dmaj (my fingers still aren't convinced - just practice I guess). I've done the power cord lesson here which was great, I'm practicing the pentatonic scale and practicing with a metronome.
This is a great site. Kris cracks me up. Look forward to talking with you guys.