... a few photos, mostly guitars... (well, all guitars actually...)
Busking on a breezy day. (When I had finished singing and I was packing things away, the wind took the foam shield off my microphone and sent it rolling off down the street and I never saw it again...)
...a pair of old sunburst Peavey guitars from the 1980s...
Peavey T-27 guitar and Music Man 210 Sixty-five amp
...on the ropes... Peavey T-60 guitar.
Summer 1981, with a Guild D-35...
35 years later - same place, different guitar...
1988. 706 Union Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee...
Fender Malibu guitar from the 1960s...
The Pat O'Caster...
Sometime in the 1990s. Recording in a studio, with my Guild F-30.
2011 In a studio: some Telecaster overdubs...
Red and gold Telecaster...
October 2012. DeArmond's version of the Guild "Duane Eddy" guitar.
2011 "Some Old Side Road..."
1960s-era Epiphone Granada
In the corner of a studio, recording with my Fender Villager 12-string guitar, made in the 1960s.
Trusty Telecaster...
...carefullly applying the finishing touches...
1967 Fender Custom Telecaster. Tiverton, Devon. September 2013.
Gretsch G-5129.
Tuning up time...
Singing in the street.
Singing one of my "Street Corner Songs"...
Backstage. Epiphone SQ-180.
March 2014 Hive Beach. Singing by the sea shore
April 2015. Westward Ho!, North Devon. Sound Waves...
Weymouth Harbour. "Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay"...
Two Blue Stratocasters
Guild F-30 and Guild D-15
Going round in circles. Great Yarmouth, November 2015.
Busking on a breezy day.
Stratocasting on New Year's Eve, December 2015
February 2016. Gibson Les Paul guitar & Music Man amp...
...bruised and battered 1971 Yamaha classical guitar, model G-100A
Spring 2016. Guild D-25 guitar, made in 1978
May 2016 - some old 1960s Fender acoustic guitars...
May 2016 ...away in the West Country, with some free time for songwriting...
May 2016 Yamaha G-100A
June 2016 LAG nylon string guitar
June 2016
Tres Amigos...
Washburn bass guitar from the mid-1980s, which I've had for 30 years
July 2016 Taking a rest, on a west Dorset hillside, trusty old Fender Malibu at hand...
October 2016. Another West Country songwriting session.
December 2016. Danelectro guitar.
January 2017. Singing an old Leadbelly song in the back room at The Cricketers pub...
February 2017. Telecaster time...
May 2017. Guild D-15, made 30 years ago, in 1987.
Flying the flag...
Summer 2017. LAG guitar. Backstage in Norfolk.
June 2017 - on a Portland cliff top, with an old 1960s-era Fender Newporter
June 2017. Playing the nylon string LAG guitar in the bar of The Porterhouse.
July 2017. Lymington. Between songs...
July 2017 - a summer's evening in Romsey...
July 2017. Guild Mark II classical guitar, from the late 1960s...
Summer 2017. LAG guitar. Weymouth Bay and Portland Harbour.
January 2018. In a studio; recording with a Telecaster.
February 2018. Forty-year-old Guild D-25, from 1978.
February 2018. LAG Tramontane guitar. Bideford, Devon.
March 2018. This is what can happen to your favourite Telecaster if you stupidly drive over it with the rear wheel of your vehicle...
March 2018. Hayling Island. Telecaster all fixed back together again.
...on the subject of Telecasters, here's the electric guitar I've had the longest, (more than 35 years now). 1967 Fender Custom Telecaster...
...and the most recent - also a white Telecaster...
... same couch, but with a black guitar. This is a Fender Santa Rosa, which I've had since the late 1980s...
May 2018. Backstage. Hemsby, Norfolk
May 2018. Guild D-25. North Devon.
July 2018. Damerham.
July 2018. Down By The Riverside...
August 2018. The Cotswold Country Music Festival
September 2018. Beverley, Yorkshire. Even when away from home, on a long-distance motorcycle jaunt, old habits die hard...
