{"id":6028,"date":"2023-04-23T16:54:23","date_gmt":"2023-04-23T21:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theguitarstand.net\/?page_id=6028"},"modified":"2023-06-07T10:31:17","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T15:31:17","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/theguitarstand.net\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t\t\t\t\"guitar\n\t\t\t\t\"guitarroom\"\n\t\t\t\t\"guitarroom\"\n\t

About The Guitar Stand<\/h1>\n

I’ve played guitar since 1985, so I’m an old dude.\u00a0 But that doesn’t mean, I’ve been playing for almost 40 years. I played a lot in high school and college and played in a few bands in the 1990’s. I lived in the prime era of rock and roll from SRV to Nirvana to Metallica and everything in between.<\/p>\n

I always kept my guitar around and would play it on occasion for the next 15 years. Around 2003, one of my friends got an acoustic guitar,\u00a0 I sold all my electric guitars and amps except for my 1991 US Fender Strat. I just played a Martin D35 and\u00a0 Larrivee L-3.\u00a0 In all those years, I had periods where I wouldn’t touch my guitar for 6-12 months. But every once in awhile I would pick it up.<\/p>\n

Reviving My Interest in Guitars<\/h2>\n

In 2018, my 13 year old daughter, Kate, decided she wanted to play guitar. In the past, anytime someone told me they were going to pick up guitar, it would last a few weeks and they would be done. I figured she would drop it. She wouldn’t let me even show her a chord.<\/p>\n

But.. she learned fast and learned entirely on her own.\u00a0Having someone to just play with and talk about guitar, really revived my interest. I bought a decent amp and a 2nd guitar. I started learning about gear, amps, equipment. I taught myself how to build guitars and here it is a few years later and I have a room full of guitars, amps and pedals. I’ve learned how to build guitars and But this time, I wanted to really<\/strong> get back into playing electric guitars.\u00a0 So I did what guitarist do.\u00a0 I started collecting guitars, amps, pedals, gear and even started taking new lessons.\u00a0 The photos above are a guitar room that I built for myself and my daughter.\u00a0 I now have 20 guitars and 5 amps and lots of pedals.\u00a0 I needed them of course.<\/p>\n

I wanted to share my knowledge of guitars and gear, so I created this site as something I can work as I wound down my career. The content is provided by me and other writers that have knowledge of guitars and amps. Thanks for reading, Cheers, Rob Z<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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