My First Guitar : Tales of True Love and Lost Chords

The world's greatest guitarists reveal the stories behind the first guitar that fed their lifelong passion in extensive interviews with Julia Crowe. Including a Who's Who of musicians from rock, Jimmy Page, Lee Ranaldo, Tom Morello, to folk, Richard Thompson, jazz and contemporary classical music, Joscho Stephan and Benjamin Verdery. It also covers guitarists from country and blues, gypsy jazz and such seminal figures as Les Paul, Carlos Santana, Peter Frampton and Joe Satriani. In revealing interviews they discuss their memories of the inspiration and challenges of their early days. Uncovering deeply human stories that every reader (and musician) will relate to. Julia Crowe interviews the world's leading guitarists, from Les Paul, Carlos Santana, Peter Frampton and Jimmie Vaughan, Joe Satriani, Melissa Etheridge, to Lee Ranaldo, George Benson and Jimmy Page. In interviews that offer an intimate insights into their beginnings as they recall their first instrument and share their memories of the inspiration, challenges, and successes of their early days. "Collecting these tales has been admittedly addictive because each story is as unique, compelling and illuminating as the performer... My intent was simple - to ask the artists to speak for themselves." - Julia Crowe Crossing a vast array of genres, showing the common experience of all guitarists, Julia Crowe offers intimate and deeply human insights into a musician's beginnings as her interviewees recall their first instrument and share their memories of the inspiration, challenges, and successes of those early days. Interviews with the world's greatest guitarists, from Jimmy Page and Richard Thompson to George Benson and Benjamin Verdery, revealing their memories of the first instrument to feed their lifelong passion.