Andreia Gomez: Christmas special - Shreddelicious interview

DiMarzio Artist: Andreia Gomez

[Shreddelicious] 1 When did you start playing guitar?

[Andreia Gomez] I was born in a small fishing village in the south coast of Portugal. I took interest on the guitar when in 1998 when I saw footage of Slash on the Appetite for Destruction Tour. That summer I got a job and bought my first guitar. I learnt the basic chords from a book and from my cousin and uncle who both played acoustic and sung. I learnt the first pattern of the pentatonic scale from a drunk fisherman and that was it! As far as I was aware I'd learned to play the guitar... Kurt Cobain, Slash and Kirk Hammet were my only influences for years! I didn't really have much access to music, I lived in a small village and knew very few people who played the guitar. I came to England in 2002 to learn to play and really embarrassed my self by asking my fellow guitar students who Joe Satriani was.... That sums up my guitar knowledge at that point but also marks the beginning of my journey into the world of guitar playing.

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