The picture with me and the Strat was taken with someone with a high quality HD video camera with a condenser mic on their camera. I believe same thing on the "music video" they created for the other one as well.
Yeah, I can play the Drop D rock stuff, too...but Pentatonic pulls me home every time. I have a home in the blues for sure. I am also completely self taught.
I started on Buddy Holly at 4-5 years old and at 9 or so I saw Jonny Lang playing at an outdoor concert...at one point he walked out into the crowd in front of us and was soling and it was a goddamned epiphany for me. I was just like "This. I want...THIS."
A lot of my formative learning came from watching videos over and over and over and over and over and figuring out every lick on them... At one point I could play SRV live at El Mocombo all the way through. Not so much anymore as I've forced myself to make a stylistic change over the past 7-8 years do I wouldn't be pigeonholed as another Stevie Wanabe.
Yes, I had that same epiphany at around 10 years of age, took a little while longer to get a guitar though. I went to about 3-4 lessons in my teens and it bored me to death, I could go home, put on a record and work out most of the songs accurately in an evening so lessons didn't interest me, i wish i had learned to read music though, I don't even read tab, I still work things out faster by ear, its just how I've always done things. A lot people think drop D is easy to play in, even cheating but the thing i like is the structures you can play that you simply can't using power chords or 5ths or what ever you want to call them, I also use DADGCD and DADADD and a few other strange tunings in lots of different keys, exploring is half the fun. Wasn't it great when you were trying to emulate all these guitarists you look up to and that moment hits you when you realize that you actually sound like ...........you...
You've developed your own style...
Good stuff Sean, I forgot you played...
