{"id":1084,"date":"2015-01-15T05:58:11","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T12:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2015-01-16T08:38:47","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T15:38:47","slug":"guitar-man-will-hodgkinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/?p=1084","title":{"rendered":"Guitar Man – Will Hodgkinson"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As I have taken a break from ‘analysing’ myself in the modern educational manner I have turned to reading for some pleasure and first up this slight yet fairly amusing tome from a journo who hung around the sort of people I knew in London in early 2000s…<\/p>\n

From living under Liam Watson (Toe-rag) to fetching up at Tapestry festival our lives almost intersect…I am almost sure I would have stood next to this geezer at a Come Down and Meet the Folks gig at some point. I remember Teddy Paige in Camden and Alan Tyler even wrote a song about him I think called ‘Ivanhoe’. I certainly saw him in jester costume but without sword as I recall.<\/p>\n

As music editor and journo for various newspapers\u00c2\u00a0etc he had the C.V. that opened\u00c2\u00a0doors..even Davy Graham’s slightly bonkers one and this a fairly straightforward travelogue with added six-string footnotes. He\u00c2\u00a0tracks down some interesting teachers. It a\u00c2\u00a0shame he didn’t track down Jimmy Page himself but Jansch and Graham more esoteric and probably cheaper but not as cheap to interview as T. Model Ford which for me was high point of the tale.<\/p>\n

Structurally the book well written, medical<\/a> the facts correct ( in a wikipedia fashion at times) but for me the ending was a damp squib. If he really learnt guitar in six months and played such an effortlessly well received gig he either 1. Lying or 2. Deluded..or possibly both. It may be the truth but a disaster would have been far more in character with the shambles preceding and I did get the feeling that a very large lily was gilded several times over. Maybe an innate hankering after a real record deal ( he went on to launch a label) was actually to explain for the ‘happy’ ending.<\/p>\n

Overall worth reading if have time and like I said amusing in parts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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