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[Oldfart_Shredman]

Hello one and all,
Glad to be here. I've been lurking the past couple weeks trying to get my old account straightened out but it was to no avail. I had created an account ages ago, got busy and never had time to look around on the board. Every time I tried logging in something was messed up and it wouldn't even let me look at any forums!!

I've been getting my jam on since I was a 13 year old kid in awe of Ace Frehley, then went from that to Randy Rhoads, RUSH, Hendrix and Van Halen all in my freshman year in high school!

This is a cool forum, be seeing you in the posts folks.

O. Shredman

[Mincer]

Welcome (back) to the forum!

I am happy you are able to log in now- sometimes the forum software gets a little weird, but now you should be OK.

[Oldfart_Shredman]

Thanks Mincer, had to get a new email account etc to get here.
Kept saying something along the lines of "Sorry, you do not have permission to view this page" no matter what it was I was trying to look at!!
Sent a couple messages to the webmaster (?) but never heard anything back.

[Mincer]

Yeah, those kinds of things are generally easy for me to sort out. I am trying to get an email on the forum that goes directly to me or one of the other mods. That would make things easier.

[devastone]

Welcome aboard/back oldman_shredfart!

[Oldfart_Shredman]

Now you young whipper snappers git off mah lawn!!!

[Oldfart_Shredman]

Back in my day we didn't have them fancy clean boost whatchamacallits for leads.
Didn't have electricity neither, had a generator hooked up to a bicycle.
If you wanted your amp to work you better pedal!!!
Need a lead boost?
Pedal faster!!!

You youngin's don't even know that's where the term "Guitar Pedal" came from!

[JOLLY]

Love the name.

[Aceman]

Greetings Earthling!

[Erlend_G]

Hello man! And welcome to - what I think has to be- the greatest online musical forum in the universe!

My name is Erlend, I am a native north-norwegian music lover & multi-instrumentalist, composer;
first became a member here at the age of 12, in 2002. .

Hope you will stay and be a part of our community.

\m/ rock on! ♪

[Oldfart_Shredman]

Thanks Ace, Erland_G and everyone else.

This looks like a great place as a matter of fact!

Quite a few years back now I was a member over at Plexi Palace and met some great people. Things started getting a little ugly over there so I left but have always missed the camaraderie.

I'm a kid who grew up being a KISS fanatic in middle school until Peter and Ace left. Then in 8th grade a guy said "If you like guitar you should listen to a band called Van Halen." So I went from listening to Love Gun and Destroyer to trying to wrap my head around Women and Children First! (that took a while).

Then 9th grade all kinds of influences came flooding in: Hendrix, UFO, RUSH, Frank Marino, Sabbath, Randy Rhodes, Iron Maiden, AC/DC. What a great time to be a young learning guitar player! I went on to be huge into RUSH, spent a good part of high school figuring out how to play 2112 overture note for note with the record like I'm betting alot of us did.

I started playing in bands and that's still happening on some levels. Decided I wanted to make a living in the music business so there I went: kid growing up listening to everything from Cold Gin to YES getting student loans and a couple degrees in Classical Guitar!

Between picking up intro level community college music appreciation classes at 4 different schools, teaching guitar students 5 days a week at a music store and playing in clubs on the weekends I somehow managed to make a living in music for 14 yrs.

Then the work dried up (political stuff in the State Capitol from the Teachers Union) and having a job with medical benefits kinda became a necessity and I've got 2 titanium shouldets to prove it lol.

So there's a quick synopsis of me guys.

VERY happy to be here!

[Erlend_G]

The SDUGF has always been a classy place. Back "in the days" we were a close-knit family of sorts; (everybody knew eachother- even went for long trips to meet up.)
-and we still are. With members coming and going - of course.

I grew up with listening to 80's metal myself. Also, Jean Michel Jarre, Mike Oldfield-
even studied jazz bass-guitar at a great music school for a year.

These days I'm working with my fourth and newly started band project, with an older singer/songwriter.

Not to hijack your thread, but ; hello, this is me .

Hope you stick around.

-E ♪

[Erlend_G]

Where are you from, Bro? Sorry if you wrote it for us.

The US?

[Oldfart_Shredman]

The SDUGF has always been a classy place. Back "in the days" we were a close-knit family of sorts; (everybody knew eachother- even went for long trips to meet up.)
-and we still are. With members coming and going - of course.

I grew up with listening to 80's metal myself. Also, Jean Michel Jarre, Mike Oldfield-
even studied jazz bass-guitar at a great music school for a year.

These days I'm working with my fourth and newly started band project, with an older singer/songwriter.

Not to hijack your thread, but ; hello, this is me .

Hope you stick around.

-E ♪

Very cool.
I did enough jazz while at school to figure out if I quit everything else and devoted myself entirely to it I could be on the lower side of mediocre!!
Really like what Mike Stern does and it's hard not to like Wes Montgomery.


I do have a really good feeling about this place, and those kind of intuitional awarenesses or whatever you want to call it are always spot on!!

I am based in the states, Owensboro Kentucky of all places and it's my hometown
Right when I was getting done with school the ONLY guy who did classical guitar stuff teaching wise around here moved away, so it was almost like the universe saying "Here ya go."

I plan on sticking around anyways lol.

[Erlend_G]

Jazz does have it's downsides, yeah :/. Standard tunes is allright, but... everyone got their limits. I still cannot compose, learn-by-ear of function in the 12-tone music area. Unfortunately, because it's one of the areas in music that inspires me the most .

The only thing I became really proficient in, was the 12-bar blues . Playing bop-style 12-bars can be really addicting, you know- /dangerously/ addictive .

But these days, I'm mostly playing instrumental rock a'la Satriani (minus the virtuosity), ballads, folk music, and prog rock.