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My First Guitar: Tales of True
Love ...
 Scotty's
copy of this book came two days ago, and he has already been paging
through it. I read his little section and it is the only time I have
read anything that was EXACTLY as Scotty said it. He thought the same,
and he is looking forward to reading more of it. In fact, he said one of
the best things about it was that each person's contribution is separate
so that you don't have to read at least a hundred pages before you get
to the one you want to read about. He will skip around, but I'm sure
that he'll get to all of it. He already likes it!
Gail Pollock
September 27, 2012
My First Guitar: Tales of True Love ...
by Julia Crowe
ECW Press
Julia Crowe has quite a concept in this expansive collection of
vignettes of seminal guitarists telling how they first planted the
playing seed. The author describes how the book was conceived, her
younger self boarding a flight to meet Jimmy Page in London for a cup of
coffee—but she lets him, and the other players, do most of the talking.
Crowe (guitarist, composer, journalist, and teacher) impressively
executes heartfelt storytelling gleaned from hundreds of interviews with
the “who’s who” of players (Dick Dale, Seymour Duncan, Alex Lifeson,
Albert Lee, Scotty Moore, Steve Vai, etc.), and she delivers the goods
in unique first-person accounts. Les Paul recounts acquiring a $3.95
Sears-Roebuck guitar after his mother gave him grief for playing piano
(“it’s not convenient”) and the drums (“she immediately ordered that out
of the house”). The rest is history, as they say, but this book is
testament. It’s not just about the first guitars or the players
themselves, really. It’s much more: the follow-up from that first chance
meeting—that coming-of-age experience with music. This is life, told and
celebrated through guitars.
Tessa Jeffers for and courtesy of
Premier Guitar September 2012
The book is available in bookstores and on Amazon.com but
can also be ordered autographed directly from the author on her
website:
added September 28, 2012
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