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Tod Says:
How did I become a guitar monkee? My obsession with guitars started when I was 13……. that was 26 years ago when I realized those cool sounds spewing out of my stereo speakers were an electric guitar driving hot tubes into distorted bliss. I just had to figure out how to make that sound on my own. I just HAD to. My Dad finally relented on getting me a guitar for my 15th birthday after asking me why I had shoe strings tied to an old tennis racket. After telling him that was my air guitar he decided to open a pandora’s box and got me a Peavey guitar and amp. Not the greatest gear but it was enough for me to spend hours on end trying to play “Iron Man” and “Smoke On The Water” in between short bursts of lame attempts to solo that I’m sure sounded more like a cat dying than anything resembling Eddie Van Halen . Even though I wasn’t that good and it was very hard at first learning to play… I was hooked and hooked deep. I took lessons from a local guy who was a graduate of GIT. Andy and a good friend Jon taught me a lot and helped me get where I wanted be. I was able to figure out songs and tones on my own and after awhile I also graduated on to better gear. Not only did I love playing guitar, writing music, and playing in bands… I loved the gear side too. I’ve always been a tinkerer, so with a whole world of pedals, pickups, amps, and effects I was in heaven trying new things or trying to get my favorite guitar player’s tone. I was a tone chaser from the get go. Over the years not much of that has changed except I’ve become a decent enough player to have fun with it. I’ve owned so many amps, pedals, effects units, and guitars it’s actually borders on an illness us guitar players affectionately call G.A.S. or Gear Acquisition Syndrome. Still to this day at age 39 I just love the feel of a guitar in my hands making music come alive through a piece of wood with wires and magnets that’s plugged into an electrical circuit that’s modified and amplified by tubes, resistors, filters etc. which can make the sound scream, cry, moan, swoosh, warble, cut, occelate, and feed back into sounds that can become your voice to express how you feel at the moment. I feel playing music is one of best experiences in the world where you ride waves of sound with other guys in a band… speaking to each other without saying a word. I’ve never lost that feeling. I hope I never do.more: http://guitarmonkee.com/about/
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