knopfler74

Love the blog entry, DB! Always great to get to know a forum member just a little better through these posts! Right on

Matt, I really dig ALL of this stuff, but Easy Come Easy Go might be my favorite. It's kind of a Tom Waits/Mazzy Star/Pixies vibe. The vocal is very cool, and the over all recording is done really well. I'm looking forward to checking out more of your stuff and posting some of my own, when I'm back to being 100% Rock on, man!

Hi everyone, I just registered for this site today, largely because today I purchased my first heritage guitar! I picked up a 157 today from a gentleman who owns a music store near where I live, and I'm absolutely in love with it so far. A little about me: I spent the first 17 years of my adult life as a professional jazz trumpet player. I got a degree in music from the Jamey Aebersold Jazz Studies program at the University of Louisville, and in 2004 I won the jazz division of the national trumpet competition. I also released a record on the Jazz Factory label title 'Midnight in Merizo.' Four years ago I walked away from that world. I picked up a guitar, went back to school to become a history teacher, lost 85 lbs, and started really digging life. My main hobbies are practicing, reading great books on history, writing music and recording it in my modest pro tools home studio. I've lived all over the world due to the fact that I started my professional music career in the United States Navy Band. I've lived in Guam, Japan, Virginia, Kentucky, California, Arizona, and I was born in Maine. (son of a lobster-man - not kidding!) I'm stoked to get to know you all and learn as much as I can about guitar, music, and well, whatever else comes up. My main musical interests lay in singer/songwriter music, indie-rock (what we used to call alternative when that word actually meant something), the Seattle thing, alt-country or roots rock, U2, and of course the great hard rock of the 1970's. Yeah, so that's pretty much it. Thanks, in advance, for all the ridiculously cool stuff I'll get to learn and chat about in this forum.... Peace