All Guitar Vero Contest, Part 3
Day 3 of our trip was a drive to El Cajon, near San Diego, and a visit to Taylor Guitars. Kendall and Nikke picked us up at the hotel quite early, and it was a good two hour drive to El Cajon.
All Guitar Vero Contest, Part 2
As my poor wife Claire was unable to come on this trip (long story), my friend Pete, who we were staying with in France at the time, was free. As he’s also an independent film-maker, he kindly offered to document the trip. I didn’t sleep much on the flight across to Los Angeles. Aircraft seats are just not comfortable, despite the ability to electronically dim the windows on a 787. We landed at LAX around 3:30 pm, spent a little bit of time getting through passport checks, and then some more time, waiting for a driver to appear, who I […]
All Guitar Vero Contest, Part 1
I joined the Vero network back in late January/early February as I saw KT Tunstall announce the first #VeroGreatGuitarGiveaway contest, and I thought I might give it a shot. I then got ridiculously busy with other work, and the contest – and the networking – just got put on hold.
Playing Live Again
It’s so nice to be getting out again after so long. I can’t express how much my upper arm injury had limited my goals, and, although I could just switch emphasis and concentrate on other stuff, having to protect the arm really did put a dampener on my enthusiasm. That said, it’s easy to fall into bad habits. Although the arm has been recovering for a while now, it was easy to tell myself to “protect the arm, protect the arm!” as an excuse to not go back to playing regularly too early. Anyway – it was time… blow off […]