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I've been playing guitar since I was 14 (42 now). Actually I started playing at 12 but took a break after pulling a Pete Townshend with the $25 acoustic my parents got me by trading in a camera and few dollars at 'Ye Old Pawnshop'.

My first serious guitar was a Gibson Sonex Custom which my dad bought me after he went on an alcohol fueled bender and threw my fake strat copy into the canal behind our house. He felt bad afterwards and took me to Jones Music to pick out whatever I wanted - I made out like a champ - I have a million stories about my old man, but thats a whole other blog. Rest in peace Pops.

I currently am the proud owner of 4 guitars - a Fender Telecaster, a Fender HSS Strat, both American made, an Epiphone Les Paul Zakk Wylde model (which is a sensitive subject with KF), and an Ovation acoustic (which gets played mostly in front of the TV and in church).

To deliver my bone cruching riffs and stinging solos I have a Fender Twin Reverb (which I would sell my organs before I would sell it), a 30 watt Line 6 and a Fender G-Dec amp (which I highly recommend) for practice.

I'm not a big effects guy - I'd rather just plug in and go but every once in a while I do the two-step on a Boss chorus pedal, a Line 6 Pod, a Zoom G92TT Twin Tube effects pedal, and DigiTech DF7 Distortion Factory Distortion Pedal.

Influences.....probably 2 biggest....Jimmy Page and Ritchie Blackmore. I was consumed with Jimmy Page. I even started smokin Marlboro cigarettes because I read he did. Fortunately I grew out of the "trying to be him" phase before the heroin and devil-worship era kicked in. But I still love his playing and even more, his production on the Zeppelin albums - master pieces all.

Ritchie Blackmore was the guy that never got the respect he deserved. He is brilliant though and a hell of alot of players (Yngwie, Rhoads, etc.) owe a debt of gratitude to that guy for laying the neo-classical groundwork - even if he has traded in his strat for a lute and now plays fairy music at Renaissance festivals in Europe.

Ok...thats my profile and where I'm at.... Time to get bloggin'

If you play, what is your primary instrument?

Guitar