First videos of practice sessions for 2011

[Rosemary]

Hi Phil
Thanks I'd love to be good enough to play along with others just for fun but don't know if I could ever be a performer even if I ever reached that stage because I'd get too nervous I think. It would be fantastic if there were a Shadows Club here in Brisbane. Maybe one day that will happen. In the meantime I'm just enjoying being a bedroom player and chatting to you and all the other Shads fans out there.
All the best
Rosemary

[Risky]

Hi Phil
Thanks I'd love to be good enough to play along with others just for fun but don't know if I could ever be a performer even if I ever reached that stage because I'd get too nervous I think. It would be fantastic if there were a Shadows Club here in Brisbane. Maybe one day that will happen. In the meantime I'm just enjoying being a bedroom player and chatting to you and all the other Shads fans out there.
All the best
Rosemary

Hi Rosemary. It's a pity that there are no local Shadows Clubs for you to join - Shame on you Brisbanians

I see that there was a Brisbane Guitar and Amp show in 2010 http://guitarampandvintageshow.com.au/.

If there is another this year I suggest that you get yourself down there and ask the people on the stands if they know of any clubs/players in Brisbane. It doesn't matter if they are not Shadows fans. Once you have joined a guitar club you can amaze them with your renditions of Shads tunes and maybe you will convert them

Phil

[Rosemary]

Hi Phil
That's the guitar show we went to last year where I bought my first Strat (the new one). I also bought a backup secondhand one a few months later. The young bloke I bought it from at the guitar show demonstrated the guitars by playing FBI when I told him I wanted to play Shadows and he said he taught it to his students but he was from interstate. We'll go back to the guitar show if it's on again this year so maybe I can make some enquiries about guitar clubs then. Good idea!
All the best
Rosemary

[wstagner]

Hi, Rosemary....what inspired you to want to learn to play?

Walt

[Rosemary]

Hi Walt
It all started last year when I was really excited about the Shads touring with Sir Cliff and I began playing Shadows tunes on the iPhone Pocket Guitar app. My husband kept saying I should learn a real guitar. I wasn't really sure if I wanted to learn but he bought a $5 acoustic guitar from the markets one Sunday and he and his Dad restored it for me. By that time I was really enthusiastic about wanting to learn and the guitar looked beautiful but unfortunately it needed an extra support or something inside it and when we put strings on it the action was too high to be playable. We then bought a new acoustic (about the end of February) and I started learning on it and I still play it a lot during the week at night. Then a few months later we bought the American Strat (the sunburst) and after that a secondhand Mexican Strat as a backup. So I suppose it's now almost a year and I'm still very enthusiastic and hope one day to be good enough just to play along socially.
Best wishes
Rosemary