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Make Unique Guitar Music Like Steve Vai
Steve Vai is famous for being a top-notch guitar player. His career has spanned more than twenty years and he continues to rock today and create more music than ever. What has contributed to Steve Vai's longevity in the guitar-playing world? So many guitarists have a hit or two and then fizzle out due to burn-out or personal problems. Steve Vai has not fallen victim to the afflictions that so often plague his fellow musicians. Let's take a look at Steve Vai's life and career to see what has worked so well for him to create a successful music career.Read More
Bob Marley Posters - Passion and Pride
What is it that allows for the popularity of certain pop culture celebrities to endure long after their passing? Take Bob Marley for example. Here is an artist that has been gone for over twenty five years, yet his popularity continues. Albeit in a somewhat more subdued tone compared to the height of his career in some circles. But in the more niche reggae circles, his influence continues to be pervasive. What is it that separates Bob Marley from the rest of his contemporaries in the world of music and other endeavors.
The first time I picked up a guitar my whole life changed. I think I slept with it the night I brought my first new guitar home. It's a bit embarrassing to admit, but it is true. I remember the feel of the guitar in my hands and the shape, which reminded me of a girl I once dated. But seriously it was love, pure love.
Then I plugged it in and hit those first magic notes….. Wow did it sound awful, maybe the worst noise I ever heard in my life. So started my journey in the world of music some 23 years ago, I found my one and only mistress, the guitar.
Today I am happily married with 3 kids, a real job, and my guitars. The only thing my wife has ever been jealous over is my guitars. I told her once I could have girlfriends or guitars, she said she'd settle for the guitars. Thus is the secret to a happy marriage.
Oh more importantly, the guitars. No two are the same, even the same model, made in the same year, with sequential serial numbers, are going to play and sound different. They have their own personalities, their own feel and their own mood swings. I have Fender's, Gibson's, Washburn's, Parker's, solid bodies, hollow bodies and semi-hollow body guitars.
Every week I go to a friend's house, or a local store and just pickup every guitar I can and play it for a few minutes. It really is an obsession. I think, dream and dwell on playing guitar 24 Hours a day.
Is this story the same as your's. As humorous as this may sound, many of my playing friends say the same thing. You can never have enough guitars, or spend enough time playing your guitar.
Do you have a passion for playing as well?