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DAY 0 - A Blog Is Born

Greetings Salutations , Come on in, pull up a pew, stay awhile and listen!!

So here i sit looking at my Analytics for both my FBpage and Youtube Channel..

Lets Face it its a bit depressing.. So what can be done about? well a search on the Inter-web of pornal delights .. Fb Organic "reach" is more or less dead and buried Meaning all you have left are Paid advertising.. and well i cant afford to do that right now.. so another thing that keeps getting mentioned is Blogging and Blogs

How successfully will this be? who know but lets find out.. so as i sit listening to Siouxsie and the Banshees.. a blog was born...

Will it be Witty? Intelligent? Insightful? well i guess only time will tell...

it will be at least musical.. it will not contain anything "personal" beyond my feelings and thoughts about my music and musical related content .. ie GEAR PORN!!!!!!! whooo i said it out loud,.. Im a GEAR PORN Addict.. i like gear I LOVE guitars, LOVE Modding and fixing and rebuilding

OK maybe for first Bloggness i should introduce my self :

I was Born in the Later half of the 70'S just in time to become a Starwars fanboy

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Me at some age Prob around 18mths .. YES I was a big baby.. and it didn't stop there being I'm now 6'5[/caption]

The above pic is my on my Aunt's Motorbike.. if any of my family want to clarify it please feel free..

so skip ahead to a fairly average childhood.. Filled with all the joys the 80s could bring..

I grew up in a environment of music, my Uncle on my mothers-side was a bass player and had been since he was in high school.. i vividly remember begging him to play the batman TV series over and over again

Lets get to the good stuff.. the year is prob 1990 .. and its summer. and my second year of high school..

Lets go to a friends house.. and lets say he puts on "Appetite for Destruction"

at Which point me life changed for ever... the Sound .. The Guitar.. that would be come my new found desire.. my obsession...

so followed Several years of annoying the neighbors .. finding a very close friendship musicianship if you will with another school friend.. where we would sit and learn together, video our sessions long before YouTube..

ok i confess i have skipped a lot as i dont really think you want be bored with reading about how i listened to all the hair metal i could get my hands on from WASP to Poison motley crue, Alice Cooper, David lee Roth ,etc etc how i grew my hair in high school at a time where it wasn't "tolerated for boys" to have long hair.. really got heavily into Metallica.. when the black album was released..dropped out of school .. due to Personal Issues..

I guess the next chapter is where i began working PT as as a Saturday job and being a unpaid hang out during the week. at the local music shop.. it was here i discovered my interest in modding and fixing guitars.. i had the enthusiasm but not the money or the ability(yet) do even to much beyond a restring rewire and fret "Clean" i say Clean cause i didn't know about leveling and crowning and all the stuff that actually makes a difference,

the Guitar in the photo above was a "perk" from those days, and i rewired it with the pickups from my "satellite" Les Paul Clone that i acquired from my Uncle (after a bad trip to the dentist) and used capacitors ripped from a blown TV (which is still in there after 30yrs or there about) its DUE an upgrade.. stay tuned to my youtube channel ill prob do before and after stuff..

so where was i? oh yeah no longer working at the music store pretty much having to find a real job.. yey the dreams are dead!! we cant all do our dream jobs and just get payed to play guitar all day. now can well..

the other thing i had a Talent for was Computers, my father is an engineering genius.. he could strip engines and rebuild with his eyes closed so my mother told me.. and after 30 yrs i finally met him and could well believe it. having seen the workshop ,hot tub, and ride on lawnmower he built.. but i on the other hand am not an engineer cars baffle me and anything "mechanical" breaks but computers, there i shined.. i rebuild pcs and printers like i was born to it.. fixed them and service them into new leases of life..

I even did qualifications in it.. just really to get a proper job..

everything i have ever done since leaving the music shop was IT related..

it was in the training the next chapter starts, when i meet a guy called Dek..

who was in a band.. one day he comes to me knowing i was a guitarist..

"what gear do you have?" .. ermm at this point, i had a Boss GX700 and a Marshall valvestate 80 and a lot of guitars but (nothing really reliable)

"You like our stuff?, our guitarist just quit. wanna come and try out?" (im prob paraphrasing so but you get the idea..

so I went home and got the CD out.. borrowed a Jackson HSH performer from my Musicbro (mentioned above)

Learned a couple of tunes Roughly (unfort at this time i was not good enough to do Everything there previous guitarist did) but i did my best..

and low and behold i became the guitarist for D-Shock.. (based in wednesbury in the midlands UK)

I Guess my look was HEAVILY inspired by Rob Zombie, who i was listening to a lot at the time..

I was, am overtly shy, and HATED speaking on camera, after i heard my voice as a teen on "Videos" the Wolverhampton accent didn't sit well with me..  i have i think after living abroad since 2007 in various places, lost it. and listening to "new videos" I don't feel so self conscious.. but i am still ..

this led to a very interesting character trait for the band, during interviews (yes we did 2 on local collage radio.. where i would not speak just stare at the presenter,

being 6'5 and the tallest in the band, (and the baby i was the youngest too) made for a very nervous person behind the mic..

So we did a few gigs, and although we never made it into the studio.. (yes this was before home studios)

I did manage to write some new material with them

DNA, SCARS, i seem to remember a 3rd track but i might be mistaken..

we Covered Kylies confide in me..

but all things come to an end, it was obvious that we were not getting anywhere in this scene it was "serious" and in hindsight we were too early, a few years later would have been better, and add social media to this we could have been popular at it..

but we changed and started doing 80s rock covers, poison, bon jovi motley crue etc.. but this would be short lived.. though all this time, i had been dealing with depression and excessive fatigue, i could fall asleep at the drop of a hat.. and did, many times i would turn up for rehearsals at 5pm and wait around till the next person got there, and i would be asleep on the couch .. or if it was a my afternoon off at work, i would go home at 12 and sleep till it was time to rehearse..

so i made the decision (to leave the band and move to another "technically" country, and moved to the Isle of Mann for about 6months,

moved back till 2007 and moved to Australia till 2012 then returned to EU to move to Germany.. where i currently Reside.. ... this should be apt place to leave this blog for now.. when we return we will open up the blog to musical aspirations, and feelings and what is next in-store for Wolfie D..

till next time folks, remember like share and subscribe to EVERYTHING as i dont know where i will pop up next..

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Later Peeps!!

Wolfie D

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