Hey, guys, I`v been here for a while (before Target went in the air) but never really took a deeper look in to the forum. My name is Andris (in Eng, if I am not mistaken, its Andrew). I live in Latvia, 5 min walk form Baltic sea. I ll be playing guitar for 2 years in next Christmas and have basically no musical education only great interest. Im turning 24 in January.
In my still pretty short life i have 3 great passions. First would be my girl which is still not mine but I am working on it

, second, of course, is guitar - sometimes i just love to hold her while watching a movie and not play anything at all. Third would be beach volleyball. I am about zillion times more talented volleyball than I am guitar player and thats one of the reasons I love guitaring so much - cant stand when I am not getting something right

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My first song on guitar was "Knocking on the heavens doors" or "Stairway to heaven". Not sure. Actually, Stairway and Jhonny B Good was reasons why I started at all. I just cant tell you in words how much I love blues, classical and psychedelic rock. To me Led Zeppelin is greatest band ever and close second comes in Jimi himself. Probably can go on and on about bands I love. So do we all.
I dont know how much I ll be here longer, couse economic crysis is hitting Latvia really hard and I literally have to chose between internet bill and TG membership. Till now I some how have managed to squeeze through but dont know how much longer, not mentioning my strings have been dead for months now

. But thats okay, I love here anyway, bit harder to get in tune

. Other than that, Latvia is beautiful land and cant imagine myself living elsewhere. Mhh, maybe couple years in California golden sand just for adventure, since all my favorite musicians have walked that ground. Actually i ll go and check out working opportunities right now, so that would be end for introducing myself.
Heres me playing ball:
Heres me playing not ball: