The start

I picked up my first guitar at the age of 7 or 8. That first encounter with a six string happened when I found out my mother had a guitar stashed away in a closet. I am confident that it was a pretty lousy instrument, but it started a fire that still burns.

I got my first real electric guitar when I was about 12… I guess. It was a cheap secondhand Höfner copy of a Fender Stratocaster. The real Strat was lightyears away it seemed.

The first song

The first song I learned to play on that red guitar was: Seems It Never Rains in Southern California by Albert Hammond. I am not sure I understood the lyrics completely back then. But I got a feeling that life, contrary to popular belief, also could be complicated in sunny California. Several years later Eagles confirmed that suspicion;0)

The first band

A few years later I joined my first band. And I have been a singer/songwriter and guitar slinger ever since. The first years I was in high school bands. Practicing for hours and hours with other kids from the small town I grew up in. During the 80’s and 90’s I was a gigging musician, playing in a cover band. Later on I established a power trio, with a drummer and a bass player. Lately I’ve mostly been working with song writing and studio sessions with my friend Mads, who is a drummer and studio technician.

And… now

The current state of the world considered, there aren’t many live jobs at the moment. That is part of the reason, why I want to start a blog and a probably also a YouTube channel on all things guitar. The format is still work in progress, but for starters I am building a corner of the house into a space for home recording, photo shoots – and probably some film making in near future.

I plan to blog on subjects like guitar tutorials, famous songs, guitar adjustments and maintenance, guitar effects, playing in a band, thoughts on song writing, studio work and… hell… whatever comes to my mind.

I have lots of ideas for new blogs, films – and collabs with some of my talented musician friends and bandmates.

But everything has a beginning, and this is just that: The beginning!

Thanks for hanging on this far :0)

Michael