introduction

Hi Everybody
My names Martin and i am from the east coast , Norfolk , UK . I am self taught guitar player from the age of 13 ( i'm now 40 ) after being inspired by JJ Cales music and the Tulsa sound.
My favorite musicians are Cale, Jerry Garcia , old blues guitarists and my all time favorite Danny Gatton.
Great site , great lessons ( must be good as this is the first forum i have ever posted on !!!!)
Martin

Welcome to GT dude... :)

I was born in Yarmouth, and my folks still live in Fakenham. It's a small world... ;)

Hi Ren
Very small world , i'm about 11 mile from Fakenham !!!!
Martin

Welcome to the boards dude, from Norfolk eh? i used to holiday down there on the broads, we used to hire a boat at Stalham (John Williams boat yard, don't think it's still there) and spend a fortnight cruising down to Yarmouth and back up again, good times

Hi Strat-Man
I 'm back to Hemsby ( Yarmouth ) end of this month for a few days seeing a few friends and having a few drinks. Pretty sure that old boat yards still there, doesn't seem to change much down there.
Martin

Heya :)

Welcome to GT! :)

I am 32 and been playing for a little over 16 years. Before that I used to fiddle around with various musical instruments from as early as 5 years old.. like my parents upright piano etc. Recently, I re-evaluated who my influences were.. when I was asked the question, "Who are you influences?" in the past I always told people who my favourite bands were, and who I wanted to play "like". Names such as Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrx, AC/DC, Joe Satriani, Guns'n'Roses etc would be given but now I realise that these are not actually my influences.. these are just my favourite bands.

My main influences are really people like Neil Diamond, Lionel Ritchie, Louis Armstrong, John Barry (composer of early James Bond film scores, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Barry_(composer) ), The Beatles, David Bowie, Queen etc.. A wide variety of people.. but notice that none of them are actually guitarists.. weird huh? Anyway.. yeh.. That's me at the moment.. :)