Play Guitar on a Roundabout

One of my main interests as a young teenager in the 1960′s was to go, with my friends, and listen to the juke box which was in most coffee bars at the time.

It used to be the unspoken word that everybody drinking coffee in the shop would take their turn to feed the juke box, and by doing this you were announcing to the world (or at least those in the coffee shop) what type of music you enjoyed listening to.

I used to spend a few hours in the coffee bar (I dread to think how much coffee I drank) and then I would make my way home and straightaway tune in to Radio Luxemburg.

Radio Luxemburg was what a much loved and respected radio station. Do any of my readers remember that station?

There were a lot of radio stations around in the 1960s, and many of them were stationed in offshore ships. I cant remember any of the names of those stations or ships now, but if any reader can remember then please let me know.

Radio Luxemburg was one of my favourite stations, but I cannot recall whether or not this was based on a ship, or on land. Can anyone recall this?

It was while I was listening to the music from these radio stations that my love of the guitar first came to fruition. The sound just seemed right to me.

It was only after a rather curious event took place that I thought about the possibility of playing the guitar myself.

If you are at all familiar with driving in the UK you will have noticed that we have an abundance of roundabouts, literally a large circle in the middle of the road, sometimes with grass on it. The road experts tell us that they aid the flow of traffic, but I am not so sure.

This unusual thing happened to me when I was out one day, passing one of these roundabouts, and there right in the middle was a friend of mine sitting down on the grass and happily strumming on his guitar.

Every car that passed had a good look at him, it was almost as though the roundabout was his stage.

I sat with him there for an hour or so, and I just wished that I had a guitar to take out and start playing.

And that wish eventually turned into reality because after that event I saved up all the pennies I could until I was able to buy my own guitar.

Over the years I have played in many bands, and have made music all around the world, but I have never forgotten that roundabout experience.

And I am showing other people now how to kick start their guitar career by having a roundabout experience.

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