John Goldie, Craigmore Bowling Club, Isle of Bute
May 3, 2017 21:03:39 GMT
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Post by tom18960 on May 3, 2017 21:03:39 GMT
Hi guys, apologies for my absence from the forum for a while but I've been wrestling with black dogs (sadly of the Churchillian variety rather than a Led Zeppelin riff) but hopefully I have started on the road to recovery👍
Here in the backwaters of this beautiful Scottish island we are fortunate to have a committed group of people running Transclyde Music who try to put on between 10 - 12 concerts a year mostly in the above bowling club a lovely intimate venue (licensed of course!!) which holds about 100 people and acts who have played there include Stefan Grossman, Nick Harper, Steve James and a host of others. Saturday night's gig introduced a newcomer to Bute but someone with a long pedigree on the music scene. John has been playing in bands since he was 12 years old and at that time with players who were more than twice his age, he then toured as part of a Motown tribute before joining Martin Taylor in the Spirit of Django, he has also played alongside Tommy Emmanuel and George Benson!
His opening number was a spellbinding version of Night Train where a few guitarists in the audience decided there and then to convert their instruments to kindling. His song introductions were amusing and informative with just enough technical information for musicians but also delivered in a way that held everyone's attention. His description of playing Its Not Unusual with the legendary session player Big Jim Sullivan and a version of Honky Tonk Woman that was admired by both Ronnie Wood and Bill Wyman gives an insight to the standard and inventiveness of his playing. He also played some of his own material highlight of which for me was Swirl at Dawn. I can only say if you ever get the chance to see John playing live please cancel any other plans and enjoy an immensely enjoyable, informative and amusing time in his company
On the Sunday morning John held an informal workshop attended by around a dozen guitarists and spoke at length on influences, technique and different learning methods. He plays and holds workshops regularly in Europe and Asia and also a residential session in Ardgour, Scotland. I spoke to him about many good things on Acoustic Soundboard and hopefully he will be signing up soon!
More info on John can be found at johngoldie.co.uk
Here in the backwaters of this beautiful Scottish island we are fortunate to have a committed group of people running Transclyde Music who try to put on between 10 - 12 concerts a year mostly in the above bowling club a lovely intimate venue (licensed of course!!) which holds about 100 people and acts who have played there include Stefan Grossman, Nick Harper, Steve James and a host of others. Saturday night's gig introduced a newcomer to Bute but someone with a long pedigree on the music scene. John has been playing in bands since he was 12 years old and at that time with players who were more than twice his age, he then toured as part of a Motown tribute before joining Martin Taylor in the Spirit of Django, he has also played alongside Tommy Emmanuel and George Benson!
His opening number was a spellbinding version of Night Train where a few guitarists in the audience decided there and then to convert their instruments to kindling. His song introductions were amusing and informative with just enough technical information for musicians but also delivered in a way that held everyone's attention. His description of playing Its Not Unusual with the legendary session player Big Jim Sullivan and a version of Honky Tonk Woman that was admired by both Ronnie Wood and Bill Wyman gives an insight to the standard and inventiveness of his playing. He also played some of his own material highlight of which for me was Swirl at Dawn. I can only say if you ever get the chance to see John playing live please cancel any other plans and enjoy an immensely enjoyable, informative and amusing time in his company
On the Sunday morning John held an informal workshop attended by around a dozen guitarists and spoke at length on influences, technique and different learning methods. He plays and holds workshops regularly in Europe and Asia and also a residential session in Ardgour, Scotland. I spoke to him about many good things on Acoustic Soundboard and hopefully he will be signing up soon!
More info on John can be found at johngoldie.co.uk
: I was actually thinking on starting a thread about "guitars as therapy" 
Jo whoever he is.
