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I'm all up for you bringing baked items
Just thinking off the top of my head here. @Jason - where might we stand on that?
The Guitar Show Guitar
https://i.imgur.com/3Q3BCj4.jpgI've justposted this up on Facebook, but it does mean a lot to me, so I hope you will read it. I know that Bradders is known on here, most of the time its people saying they miss his videos, he is genuinely one of the funniest people I know.
Rob Williams Guitars have started the process of the Tobacco Burst finish that won the vote.
I’ve been thinking of what charity this guitar should go to, in the back of my mind I’ve always had an idea.
You may have seen recently that Prostate Cancer has now become the number 1 cancer in the UK, probably not the number 1 you want…
I’m fairly sure that almost everyone on this page that had to deal with a friend or family member dealing with this horrible illness. For me, in 2019 it got close, my dad successfully beat it (sheer bloody mindedness I think), a friend's dad unfortunately didn’t, and in this, The Guitar Show world, my good friend and Live Stage host Simon “Bradders” Bradley was diagnosed with it. I’m sure you know Simon from his days on Guitarist magazine or from the show, but he and I go back much further than that.
Simon inadvertently got me started in bands when I was 17, I had walked in to Birmingham’s (the UK’s?) premier guitar store, Musical Exchanges, dressed like an LA Rock Star (in my head obviously), I was tall, skinny, thick curly long hair, black tight jeans, leather jacket and cowboy boots, Simon looked up and having never spoken to me before just said “you’ll do”
Do for what?
"My mate is looking for a lead guitarist and you look like you’ll fit in”
I couldn’t really play very well, but got the gig anyway, Simon graciously gave me a guitar lesson an hour before each rehearsal so I wasn’t terrible in front of the rest of the band, he maintains that he feels guilty that he shouted at me a lot for being crap (I don’t remember this, I remember being crap, not the shouting bit) I can still play some of these songs 30 years later.
The lessons stopped when Simon left Birmingham because he’d got a job as a writer on Guitarist magazine, Cambridgeshire at first I think and then on to Bath. We reconnected when I started working on Music Live at the NEC, I always read his pieces and watched his videos (the first guitar youtube star surely???) with amusement and pride, I know him
When The Guitar Show stage got bigger I knew I needed a host and I couldn’t think of anyone better, it was the first and only call I made.
Thankfully the old bugger is still with us and clear of the bloody stuff, whilst he may not yet be back to 100%, he will be back hosting for 2020, just don’t ask him to lift anything.
So lets make a good thing out of a horrible thing.
Crimson Guitars, Williams Guitars, Rob Williams Guitars, @Oil City pickups Grainger Guitars have given their time and resources to build this guitar, it hasn’t gone unnoticed by the trade, James' Home of Tone have offered to supply a top of the range wiring loom to the guitar and Laney Amplification have added an amp. I’ve bought a hardcase for it and I’ll refund the winners entry price.
Please, please buy a raffle ticket at the show, lets celebrate the Best Of British Guitar Building and raise some money so we can help kick this cancer in the arse*
*pun intended
Thats it, thanks for reading, back to endless guitar memes and exhibitor posts. See you at the show.
Jason
Thank you
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