RARE: Simon plays guitar aged 14, (mp3 of when he started)

siro_angel · Post by **siro_angel** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 10:11 pm

I started out 14 coming on 15 when i picked up a guitar, but out of sheer randomness, i recorded myself.. no knowlege of anything guitar techniques except for hearing Randy Rhoads on Tribute.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/k2aly8

It is up to 10 minutes in length, but listen to all of it if ya can, ya might recognise some things that appear in my later works.

I rank this as my worst ever instrumental ive ever done, but then again it was improvised and also i didnt know anything!

Simon

Post by **Trigger** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 11:45 pm

Hey Simon you rock and I aint listened yet!

but i will be when it comes through

siro_angel · Post by **siro_angel** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 11:47 pm

Trigger wrote:Hey Simon you rock and I aint listened yet! but i will be when it comes through

lol how the hell do i rock?

I hope you have chance to listen to my old recording.

Simon

Post by **Trigger** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 11:51 pm

siro_angel wrote:
Trigger wrote:Hey Simon you rock and I aint listened yet! but i will be when it comes through
lol how the hell do i rock?

I hope you have chance to listen to my old recording.

Simon

Did you think I would ignore a friend? what do you take me for!!

siro_angel · Post by **siro_angel** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 11:52 pm

Trigger wrote: Did you think I would ignore a friend? what do you take me for!!

lmao! god that makes me laugh, sorry just been feeling a little "blue"

Simon

Post by **Trigger** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 11:55 pm

siro_angel wrote:
Trigger wrote: Did you think I would ignore a friend? what do you take me for!!
lmao! god that makes me laugh, sorry just been feeling a little "blue"

Simon

Not here amongst friends, I won't allow it i am the all powerfull admin

siro_angel · Post by **siro_angel** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 11:56 pm

Trigger wrote:
Not here amongst friends, I won't allow it i am the all powerfull admin: evil :

oh noes! the all powerfulness admin!

*shakes in his boots*

lol..

man i can be such a weirdo at times..

Simon

Cpt Matt Sparrow · Post by **Cpt Matt Sparrow** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 1:39 pm

Hi Simon

That was really orchestral in the way you constructed that not to mention very atmospheric

How unique too that as a teenage boy you wrote a piece in the constraints of what you knew and instead of visualising a piece where you did all the normal attempted teenage stuff like tapping and trying to impress etc

I actually thought it was a good piece. Right up my street

Matt

siro_angel · Post by **siro_angel** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 2:04 pm

Matthew wrote:Hi Simon

That was really orchestral in the way you constructed that not to mention very atmospheric

How unique too that as a teenage boy you wrote a piece in the constraints of what you knew and instead of visualising a piece where you did all the normal attempted teenage stuff like tapping and trying to impress etc

I actually thought it was a good piece. Right up my street

Matt

Thanks Matt

I mean im 18 going on 19 now, and looking back at that peice, as much as i felt it is my worst peice, but it did set the foundations for what i do now on guitar.

Plus heres the clencher, I remember recording half an hour of footage, but edited it down to just 10 minutes, hense the title Solitude (Edit)

Thanks again Matt

Simon

siro_angel · Post by **siro_angel** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 2:43 pm

This is me with the guitar i used for Solitude (Edit), an Encore Junior, i loved that guitar, but it was tempermental and snapped its strings a lot.

Simon

rice_pudding · Post by **rice_pudding** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 5:18 pm

i liked the the track too, reminded me of ozzy playing with his synth in the osbournes, only better

it makes me want to start playing with echoes again.