I started learning guitar at 15 after playing trombone in the school and Welsh Youth Orchestras. I started having classical lessons - but couldn't be bothered to learn music for the guitar and to this day still play by ear, invariably not knowing the names of the chords I play.
By the age of 18 I was playing in local clubs and by 19 playing in a successful band in Cardiff called Eager Beaver. We even had our own 48 seater bus converted into 3 compartments seating/bunk beds/gear compartment - the fore runner of todays tour busses. We had two roadies too!.We stayed together for some years and toured Germany once playing in the Schwabing Club (PN Club) in Munich. the band who played there the week before were AC DC and the band that played the week after was Japan. We also supported quite a few bands of the 70's - Medicine Head, Racing Cars, Billy J Krammer!!!Sassafrass.
I left the band and played in some local bands. Then (horror on horrors) I lost interest in music and stopped playing for a long time - but still kept my gear.
My first proper guitar was an SG Standard then my Les Paul (which I still have) then started playing again in 2005 when I discovered Ernie Ball MM guitars and the wonderful things you could do with a Line 6 Pod.
I'm now 55 and enjoying playing again and helping out younger players.
I realise after all this time and after playing lots of guitars, that EB are one of the finest manufacturers out there and wish they had been around in the 70's.
