So, I am getting meet one of my hero's for the umpteenth time soon.
I have bought one of his guitar straps and he's passing by and has offered to drop it into me on the way!
Name; Snail Pace Slim.
Did I say I'm excited? Jeepers I am!
Gary Moore played my LP Custom Shop 58, leftie, in GAK. Upside down!
I nearly cried it was dream like.
They say never meet yours but I want to hear the sound of names clanging on the floor..
If I had talent, I'd be talented.
Injured Veteran and head injury survivor. Bouts of grumpy behavior and brutal humor are to be expected.
Red meat and functional mushrooms.
Persistent and inconsistent guitar player.
A lefty, hence a fog of permanent frustration
Not enough guitars, pedals, and cricket bats.
USA Deluxe Strat - Martyn Booth Special - Epi LP Custom
FX Plex - Cornell Romany
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I had sausages with Rat Scabies once.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
I did however meet one of my heroes for a beer a couple of years ago - Steve Cropper :-)
I met Paul shuttleworth (Kursal flyers) who wrote little does she know. A very nice guy. Did sound with him in the Ugly guys.
A real pleasure was Big Jim Sullivan the session guitarist, Mild mannered and kind in the extreem.
I chickened out on meeting Nile Rodgers when I had access all areas for one of his concerts. Sometimes it's best not to break the spell at least that's what I told myself.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Injured Veteran and head injury survivor. Bouts of grumpy behavior and brutal humor are to be expected.
Red meat and functional mushrooms.
Persistent and inconsistent guitar player.
A lefty, hence a fog of permanent frustration
Not enough guitars, pedals, and cricket bats.
USA Deluxe Strat - Martyn Booth Special - Epi LP Custom
FX Plex - Cornell Romany
However Ryan Leech is probably the one I'd most likely class as a Hero. He was doing what Danny MacAskill does, long before Danny ever started filming. (13) Ryan Leech in Kranked 6 Progression - YouTube or there was his Praque videos, but I can't remember what film they were part off.
I've told Mark Beaumont that his name wasn't on an entry list, and asked if he was sure that he had entered the event. Until somebody nudged me, and I actually looked up and realised who it was, as he had been the guest speaker the night before.
At the next event I seen Mark at, he asked me if I wanted his name or not
Danny MacAskill is a sound guy, and I've been at a few events we've both been working at. Although the most memorable chat I had with him, was out mountainbiking with a mate, and we bumped into him. I had a quick chat with him, discussed a couple trails, and he headed off. I turned to look at the mate, who was stood completely awestruck, and all he could mutter was, "You know Danny?"
The deal was he sat a table and you could go and have a chat with him afterwards.
I thought it was a bit artificial, what would I say that was normal conversation and/or that he hadn't heard before, and so thought he'd appreciate one less person to have to entertain.
It was a 2 day fencing competition with a meal the evening after day 1.
He's a lovely bloke. Very intense but completely unpretentious.
Happy to buy the beers, happy to have a beer bought for him. No "treat me like a rockstar" - just happy sitting down after a day's hard exercise and bitching about aches and pains and comparing bruises. Happy taking the piss because I smelled of deep heat ("Ah - here's Mark, I could smell him before he arrived") - and happy having the piss taken out of him (my reply: "At least I smell like I had a shower").
Top bloke.