“Baby it’s the guitar man”

I recently switched out pickups in my Squier Vintage Modified Mustang. They weren’t the stock pickups, mind you. They were some random Seymour Duncan pickups I pulled out of my very first guitar, a 1986 Fender Squier Stratocaster I received for my 14th birthday. Oh, what a great birthday that was. I’d been playing guitar […]

My First (Electric) Guitar

It was December of 1987 and I was looking down the barrel of my 14th birthday. By that point I’d been playing guitar for a year and change(first lesson was August of 1986.) Of course I wanted to start out with an electric guitar. It wasn’t like I’d been inspired by acoustic troubadours and the […]

Dick Dale : 1937-2019

I suppose I owe Quentin Tarantino for exposing me to Dick Dale. Sure, I’d catch an earful of his swanky surf guitar playing as a kid sitting in my room listening to oldies 97.7 out of Elkhart, Indiana. But my first slap in the face from Dick Dale was “Miserlou” in Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction. Hearing […]