If it wasn’t for Matt dropping in on Neil in Los Gatos for a spontaneous lesson years ago, none of us here would be talking to each other or meeting up, playing guitar together or even know each other. But so many of us have become firm friends and now cross the world and meet up whenever we can, as Corina and I are doing right now.
We just made a wonderful pre-camp round trip from Los Gatos to Phoenix to San Diego to Ventura and back up Highway 1 to Los Gatos visiting Bart, Craig and Jason and Neil and Nani and their families. We had a blast reuniting with what have become dear, dear friends. And I had never even been in the same room as Craig and Jason (MJ, or Music Junky) before although we have known each other for 9 years. We all said the same thing: we are so grateful for Matt and Neil giving us a fantastic learning site and the opportunity to meet, hook up and get together in real life to play our music and become friends and be exposed to wonderful teachers such as Neil, Vanessa, Max, Dave Nachmanoff, Doug Young and Jim Bruno and even stars like Muriel Anderson and Al Stewart! It has added so much to our lives and we will be eternally grateful for all that TG has given us. It has touched and changed our lives.
So here is a huge, heart-felt shout out of appreciation and thanks to the creator of TG, to the man who had the vision and drive to transform a chance meeting with a master guitar teacher into a home and watering hole for guitar learners from all over the world. Thanks for touching our lives Matt!
Chris
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