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Fred

Fred's Finger Style Guitar Space

About Me

I am now 65 years old since November 21st., and I am retired and on disability. I play the guitar and have been playing for a total of 20 years because I didn't play for a long time during my working years. I love fingerstyle guitar like that of the Greatest Ever, Mister Guitar-Chet Atkins. I also like Doyle Dykes, Tommy Emmanuel and Mark Knopfler, Les Paul, and many other players including Flamenco artists such as Carlos Montoya.----------I played 3 to 4 nights per week after I got out of high school. During high school, I played lead guitar in a local band. During school, I played when the band was hired for small parties and occasionally at a local bar. When I was finished with high school, I went on to electronics school. I never worked in electronics except for a small place checking electrical connections.----------I am married to a wonderful wife for the last 34 years and I have 2 children; a boy and a girl, and I have 2 beautiful grandchildren; One boy named Matthias and One girl named Leila-rose. My children's names are David and Rachel. David is 33 years old and Rachel is 28 now.-----------I spend most of my time on my computer and chat on instant messaging with a few close friends and family. I have been interested in personal computers since the days of the huge mainframe computers and the first PC that I had was a Commodore Vic-20.----------I love British comedies on television and nature shows and documentaries and shows that show how different products are manufactured, science fiction shows such as Star Trek.----------I enjoy corresponding with a friend I met through a guest book signing at a guitar website and have been corresponding ever since for 6 years now. He played in a rock and roll band called The Rocking Ramrods many years ago, and we both love to play like Chet Atkins. We have a lot of fun talking about Chet Atkins and other guitar related things, scientific things, weather, and we love to joke pretending that He is Captain Kirk and I am Scotty. We joke back and forth and tell each other the latest in our Emails. He is interested in photography and because of his generosity toward me, I am now making a guitar video for him and my family and for myself.----------I have 2 guitars and a practice amp. That is all the equipment I have now. I have a Yamaha Acoustic Guitar and an Epiphone Signature Series Electric guitar.----------There is much more to tell, but not in this short space. Thanks for reading about me.

Myspace Layouts at Pimp-My-Profile.com / Acoustic Guitar

My Interests

Anything having to do with computers, the internet, music. I used to sing as a teenager in a group called The Dorians (It means Master Singers in Greek). Now, I am interested in computers, and have been since the 80's. I have been interested in electronics, astronomy, chemistry, physics, Languages, such as French and Spanish. I became interested in sign language and I have learned quite a lot of it. We have some deaf people in my apartment building who I see once in a while so that I get some practice. My daughter wears two hearing aids and is learning sign language now. I used to interpret my religious meetings. I am interested in learning just about anything. I like to read Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, computer magazines. I used to type in Basic Language programs into my early computers and had fun debugging them and getting them to work. I also love to play one hour trials of computer games and I play them almost every day when I am ... I like to work on my other website,
A woman who is like family to us although we are not related helps me on my website. She knows how to write in HTML and I don't so she helps out wherever she can. Her website is right here.
I was in the Navy in the 60's and I loved seeing the many ports in the Meditteranean and Caribbean Seas. I especially loved France, Palma de Mallorca, Greece, Italy, Malta and in the Caribbean, I enjoyed seeing Puerto Rico. On board ship, I worked in the electronics shop and I was on Deck Force. I was on the USS. Thuban AKA-19 and USS. Casa Grande LSD-13. I also was helmsman in and out of port and alongside other ships.
I have been interested in photography, did some sound studio work when a friend of mine owned his own studio; back in the days of patch cords and Reel To Reel Tape Recorders. He was a photographer and taught me everything he could think of teaching me. If you are interested in computers, guitar playing especially, let's chat about it

I'd like to meet:

My Internet friend David in Florida, Doyle Dykes, Tommy Emmanuel, My MySpace Friends, Dolly Parton, Many Grand Ole Opry Entertainers, My favorite Comedians such as Jerry Seinfeld, Kevin Meaney, Jay Leno and many others

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Music:

Fingerstyle Guitar of Chet Atkins, Doyle Dykes, and Tommy Emmanuel, Spanish Flamenco, Calypso, Old Standards, Old Rock and Roll, Country, Bluegrass, and many other varied musical interests but mostly I stick with guitar music. I like synthesizer and electronic music too.Check out http://www.avnerstrauss.com He is a very good guitarist from Israel. He has a MySpace too and is on my top 40 friends list. Check out another friend of mine named Bob Caruana from the UK. He writes love songs and uses a keyboard and guitar. He is here on MySpace on my top 40 and is listed as Past And Present. He is on Digital Rodeo too at www.digitalrodeo.com/bobcaruana Here are some of my favorite finger style videos:

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Movies:

Science Fiction such as Star Trek, Comedies, True Stories (Documentaries), Musicals.

Television:

Grand Ole Opry, British Comedies, Red Green show (both on pbs), Showtime At The Apollo, Jerry Seinfeld Show, Everybody Loves Raymond, other 1/2 hour situation comedies, Documentaries, Antique Road Show, Science Fiction shows like Star Trek, Austin City Limits, Soundstage, Mountain Stage, Song Of The Mountains, Branson Jubilee and other shows that have music as their main subject. All of these are on PBS, nature shows, Spongebob Squarepants, Jimmy Neutron, and other kids shows when my two grandchildren come over.

Books:

Physics, Encyclopedias, The Life Story Of Chet Atkins, The Life Story Of Dolly Parton, Computer books, other scientific books, photography books and especially The Bible.

Heroes:

Chet Atkins, Doyle Dykes, Tommy Emmanuel, Jerry Reed, and Alison Krauss and many more too numerous to mention. Most of my heroes are musical ones, and especially Jesus Christ is my hero for what He did for us by allowing Himself to die for our sins so that we might get to live forever, some in heaven and some on earth. Rev. 7:4-9;Rev. 21:3,4 and Psalms 37:9-11 and many other places. The Meek shall inherit the earth.

My Blog

New Profile And New Videos

Hi everybody, I just changed my profile.  My daughter picked out the background and I added all new videos; even Flamenco by Sabicas and Carlos Montoya and some of the late French guitarist Marce...
Posted by Fred on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 05:39:00 PST

New Videos

Hello everyone, I have deleted one video that is not available anymore and I added a couple more. One is of Doyle Dykes playing Return To Avalon and the second half if Bye Bye Blues.  On the firs...
Posted by Fred on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 08:59:00 PST

Free Music Downloads

Deal allows free music from Internet By Charles Duhigg and Dawn C. Chmielewski                       &...
Posted by Fred on Thu, 31 Aug 2006 02:32:00 PST

Guitars Not Guns...To my MySpace Guitar Playing Friends

Hello to everyone of my friends. I was just surfing the net and entering different contests to win guitars and amplifiers, etc., and I came across this place called Guitars not Guns.They help our yout...
Posted by Fred on Sat, 03 Jun 2006 11:48:00 PST

Tommy Emmanuel, cgp New Songs On MySpace

My friend Tommy Emmanuel, cgp has just put a new set of songs on his jukebox.It is located at www.myspace.com/tommyemmanuel1 You can get to it that way or you can just click on his picture in my top 4...
Posted by Fred on Sat, 15 Apr 2006 01:04:00 PST

Grandchildren Are Here

My daughter and grandchildren came over unexpectedly today and are staying over tonight.  I think that my daughter will video tape some of my guitar playing.  I am making the video for my f...
Posted by Fred on Sun, 22 Jan 2006 01:18:00 PST

Prosperous and Safe New Year

Hello Everyone, I hope that all of you have a Prosperous and Safe New Year.  It is hard to believe that it is 2006.  2005 just flew by so fast.  I watched Dick Clark bring in the New Ye...
Posted by Fred on Sun, 01 Jan 2006 01:21:00 PST

Favorite Guitar Players

I am really happy now.  I received an Email from one of my favorite guitarist's publicist the other day.  She told me that she would try to get Tommy Emmanuel, cgp. a gig near where I live l...
Posted by Fred on Sun, 18 Dec 2005 03:39:00 PST