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Q1: Where did you username come from? - It's my name :P
Q2: Where in the world/country are you? Currently the desolate North East, hopefully soon Melbourne
Q3: What's your main musical ambition? Play something other than pentatonic solos.
Q4: Your "best" bit of gear - just the one? My TS9, the only thing I've kept over the years..
Q5: Your #1 ever track - again, just the one? impossible to answer.
Q1: Where did you username come from? everyone has called me Clarky my whole life.. even my oldest sister..
Q2: Where in the world/country are you? living in sunny Berkshire. But originally born in London of Anglo-Scots / Spanish stock.. so I guess that makes me some sort of Cockney Hispanic Porridge Wog..
Q3: What's your main musical ambition? right now it's to get my own band up and running, and hopefully a few people might even like us a bit
Q4: Your "best" bit of gear - just the one? Right now it's the Axe-FX II
Q5: Your #1 ever track - again, just the one? this changes week by week.. this week it's Mountain: Nantucket Sleigh Ride..
2) Durham, the glorious Norh-East.
3) Turned down the chance to tour Europe playing guitar in the late 80s, give it up for 20 years and now play covers (don't think I'll ever stop playing as long as my fingers work.)
4) GIbson Les Paul. Nothing better.
5) Black Rose by Thin Lizzy. Never get tired of it.
New to these parts so I thought I would introduce myself!
Q1: Where did your username come from?
Raul Duke is the moniker taken by Hunter S.Thompson in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. One of my favourite books and the film is also hilarious.
Q2: Where in the world/country are you?
I'm based in Nottinghamshire, right on the border with South Yorkshire. Closest town is Doncaster.
Q3: What's your main musical ambition?
To keep getting better, and just to keep enjoying it.
Q4: Your "best" bit of gear - just the one?
Would have to be my Eternal Guitars (based in the UK) Micawber Tele. She's called 'Betty' and shes a beauty!
Q5: Your #1 ever track - again, just the one?
Oohh this is a difficult one. I'm going to plump for 1979 by the Smashing Pumpkins. Awesome track.
Q1: Where did your username come from?
The late Thin Lizzy frontman Phil Lynott was The Rocker, so as a long time fan of Lizzy I became Rocker
Q2: Where in the world/country are you?
I'm based near Mullingar in Co Westmeath, Republic of Ireland..
Q3: What's your main musical ambition?
To keep enjoying playing.
Q4: Your "best" bit of gear - just the one?
My Peterson Strobo Stomp tuner
Q5: Your #1 ever track - again, just the one?
Parisienne Walkways by Gary Moore/Phil Lynott
Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
Q1: Where did your username come from?
Same as I use everywhere, but it originated from my ebay account. I wanted to call myself guitarbay but someone had already taken that!
Q2: Where in the world/country are you?
Manchester
Q3: What's your main musical ambition?
One day I'd love to have a viable income stream from music.
Q4: Your "best" bit of gear - just the one?
Gibson Les Paul Traditional Pro.
Q5: Your #1 ever track - again, just the one?
As with others, too hard. Today I'd pick Elliott Smith - Don't Go Down
:-j
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
Q4: Your "best" bit of gear - just the one?Malinoski Rodeo electric guitar. Q5: Your #1 ever track - again, just the one?Jeff Beck, Nadia.
Q1: Where did you username come from? - I play bass, and lack an imagination.
Q2: Where in the world/country are you? East London
Q3: What's your main musical ambition? Put together a Garage Rock band in the next few months and gig..
Q4: Your "best" bit of gear - just the one? Love my Laney LC15 - filthy.
Q5: Your #1 ever track - again, just the one? Today? At this moment? Iggy and the Stooges - Search & Destroy
Q1: Where did you username come from?
I had a bright orange Mini when I was younger, it was rather tuned and rather loud. A friend of mine dubbed it "The Screaming Jaffa" and that stuck.
Q2: Where in the world/country are you?
Sheffield
Q3: What's your main musical ambition?
I think I've now got over my desire to be a famous rock star, I think now it would just to be to have some fun and enjoy playing with people whilst learning new stuff
Q4: Your "best" bit of gear - just the one?
Gear-wise I am fairly lacking in kit but I do really like my Boss BF-2's whooshing noises
Q5: Your #1 ever track - again, just the one?
Right now? Probably "I Wanna Be Adored" by the Stone Roses.
Q1: Where did you username come from? Its my name and year of birth.
Q2: Where in the world/country are you? Sunny Surrey, Epsom to be more precise.
Q3: What's your main musical ambition? To always smile after playing 3 open chords
Q4: Your "best" bit of gear - just the one? Taylor 314
Q5: Your #1 ever track - again, just the one? Rich Kid Blues (at this moment in time!)Q1: Where did your username come from?
I've got "the cold dead eyes of a shark" apparently.
Q2: Where in the world/country are you?
London, along with what feels like 40% of the world's population.
Q3: What's your main musical ambition?
Enjoyment, then, Riff Machine...
Q4: Your "best" bit of gear - just the one?
My Telecaster, it's not even a particularly fancy one, it just fits right.
Q5: Your #1 ever track - again, just the one?
Iggy Pop - The passenger, at least it's always in the top 10.
Q1: Where did your username come from?
Q2: Where in the world/country are you? StaffordshirePurley by accident I do a lot of programming with SQL and needed a hasty original username that I could easily remember
Q3: What's your main musical ambition?
Now that the kids are grown up, to hook up with some local musicians to start creating, recording and performing new material:
Q4: Your "best" bit of gear - just the one?
Q5: Your #1 ever track - again, just the one?The tweed Fender Bandmaster clone I've just built for myself from scratch... it's just gorgeous!
Andrew Gold: One Of Them Is Me: The finest song he ever wrote, beautiful beyond words.
Q1 - lazyness. I was urbanpagan on MR but posted infrequently.
Q2 - Wakefield WY. Originally from Northumberland
Q3 - in my dreams, play later and record at rancho de la luna. In reality im just happy to be playing and learning a wee bit week by week.
Q4 - Monkey FX supermonkey, a fuzz face with spacehopper bollocks
Q5 - impossible to say but Grace by Jeff Buckley is on in the background so I'll just go with that.
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Q1: Where did you username come from? My old uni band was called Astronauts Fail whose name came from my friend once drunkenly writing on a cigarette packet "as I get old there is less and less danger of me becoming an astronaut"
Q2: Where in the world/country are you? Glasgow, Scotland
Q3: What's your main musical ambition? to become a music therapist
Q4: Your "best" bit of gear - just the one? Musicman Axis Super Sport
Q5: Your #1 ever track - again, just the one? All medicated geniuses by Pretty Girls Make Graves
With so many comparison web sites out there, how do I choose the best one?
Q 1 where did your username come from? I work for a Crane company called Kone and I`m a guitarist !
Q 2 where n the world /country are you ? Sherborne Dorset, love it, been here almost 23 years, longer than anywhere else.
Q 3 Whats your main musical ambition ? to get someone to cover one of my songs.
Q 4 Your best bit of gear ? Suppose its my bitsa tele/esquire with huge neck.
Q 5 your number one track ? Probably Mystery train by Elvis
Q1: Where did you username come from? - I was on MR and someone had used Getafix-the-Druid. It reminded me that the Asterix series used to be a favourite comic of mine. I was also terrible at guitar, and the two fitted quite nicely.
2: Where in the world/country are you? Middle of Doncaster, though born in sunny Kent.
Q3: What's your main musical ambition? To play in a band, having got a taste of playing live in a local playalong club.
Q4: Your "best" bit of gear - just the one? Difficult to say. Probably My Studio Pro 35. I smile every time I make a sound with it. I must look like a maniac when I'm playing through it.
Q5: Your #1 ever track - again, just the one?This changes regularly, but Spirit of Radio by Rush is one that I don't really get tired of listening to. That or Sixto Rodriguez "Sugarman"Q1: Where did you username come from?
It has been a family name for generations!
Q2: Where in the world/country are you?
Darkest South Yorkshire. All hail our king - Sean Bean!
Q3: What's your main musical ambition?
Ideally to get a job as a theatre technician. It's not going to happen though.
Q4: Your "best" bit of gear - just the one?
My Fender Jazz Bass
Q5: Your #1 ever track - again, just the one?
People Ain't No Good - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds