Tag Archives: Guitar

Teaching, Inspiration, and Rock 'n Roll

The world is so full of boring people. It’s important for leaders, teachers, writers, performers, and artists to share an influence that is NOT boring with this starved-for-passion world.

Damien Plays the Ponderosa 2-28-2009

I have a gig this month and I am inviting my readers to come out.
When?
Sat Feb 28th, 2009
I go on sometime after 930pm (second spot)

Twilight Slash Guitar Zone

The guitar has strummed itself throughout my life. I talk about that a little bit in this post.

DialaFlight = Your Best Weekend

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4sv76s” alt=”” />Dave Sharp has been my guitar hero since I was a kid. If you’ve read this blog for an extended period of time, you probably know that. One summer I got to actually meet and play guitar with the guy. It was such an amazing summer vacation for me. [...]

10 Things You can do With Guitar Skills

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A friend’s spouse told me the other day I was lucky because with a guitar I’d never be unemployed. Hmm, that made little sense to me but I thanked him for the compliment anyway. I used to teach guitar out of my home and had a bunch of marketing pens that lie around [...]

The Guitar

As I sit here tonight I can see my guitar in full view next to the tv. It’s a medium brown wood color with a large flat plastic pick guard just below the sound hole. It’s a Martin guitar from the orchestra series. I’ve played it in hundreds of places, my dad [...]

13 Guitars

The Fender Telecaster
The Martin “Triple ‘o’”
The Rickenbacker 6-String
The Les Paul
The Stratocaster
The Gibson J-45
The Baby Taylor
The Flying-V
The Martin Dreadnought
The Gretsch Hollow Body
The Fender P Bass
5 String Bass
Rickenbacker 12-String

How I Write Songs

A long running hobby throughout my life has been songwriting. I think I wrote my first song in 7th grade, the chorus went something like this:
You’re out of reach, out of reach
I try to reach you try to make you believe
But you’re out of reach . . . to reach your peak.
Okay okay, [...]

Back to Teaching Music for the Kids

In case you haven’t noticed, I haven’t played the SandBar or any other venue for several months. My last gig was a while back at the Ponderosa. I played for 20 minutes in front of an audience of 18-20 year olds. It was a good experience as playing live always is. [...]

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