He calls himself the Fallbrook Kid, after his hometown in San Diego’s north county. He plays old-school muscular Hendrix-Clapton-Page style blues-rock guitar. More often than not, a string of beads circles his neck. Seventeen-year-old Anthony Cullins looks like he just stepped out of 1960s San Francisco. “That guitar, it makes me want to shred.” That would be the late Dimebag Darrell (Darrell Abbott) of Pantera fame.
Like my Dean Dimebag Dean from Hell guitar? It reminds me of one of my idols.” I feel different when I look at myself in the mirror while I’m playing each one. Each one has a different tone and a different personality. It’s hanging up on my bedroom wall right now.” My first guitar was a birthday present from my parents, a Fender Squier Stratocaster.
Mick Mars (the Crue’s guitarist,) I wanted to be like that. “I think the first thing I heard was my dad’s Motley Crue Greatest Hits CD. Keona says she has been listening to hard rock for much of her childhood. They play jazz, or they play poppy stuff like you hear on the radio.” Many kids my age can play, but not many of them are into heavy metal. There are musicians my age, yes, but it’s hard to find musicians to mesh with. “But our singer is 30, and our bassist is 29. “Oh, you play guitar? You wanna be like Taylor Swift, right? That’s what people say when they find out I play,” says a 17-year-old guitar shredder named Keona Lee. That said, as absent as electric guitars are from mainstream music, there is a small but significant population of youth guitar slingers throughout San Diego gigging and hoping that those glory days of old will defy trends and come back. It’s hard to find kids my age to be motivated to be in a band.” “The biggest thing,” says Davis, “is that kids just aren’t drawn to an older type of music. One time, he played Stevie Ray I said, I want to sound like that.”īy the time he was 10 years old, Davis had learned two valuable lessons: one, that he could play guitar pretty well, and two, that he was relatively alone among his peers. He used to go through the playlist on his iPod through the computer and play music for me. He taught me the chords to a couple of Jimmy Buffet beach kind of songs. “My dad got me my first guitar when I was eight. When he’s not being the Hitman, he is Benjamin Davis. “They don’t have guitar heroes like you and I did.” “Now, it’s more electronic music, and kids listen differently,” former Beatle Paul McCartney told the Chicago Tribune last year.
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Jeff Snider remembers them: “Guitar Trader, Buffalo Brothers, Blue Guitar, Super Sound Music, Ozzie’s Music, Valley Music, Guitar and Bass Land, Professional Sound and Music, and San Diego Sound.” But a throng of smaller independent guitar shops in San Diego did not survive the changing times. Guitar Center has since re-organized and is planning to remain in business. In March 2018, Fortune Magazine blamed “a shift in music tastes” on the company’s $1 billion debt and labeled the outlook for recovery “poor.” The drop in sales likewise hit guitar retailers in their cash registers, including the country’s largest, Guitar Center, which has 269 stores throughout the U.S., including locations in San Marcos, La Mesa, and San Ysidro. Fender’s revenue fell from $675 million to $545 million. In 2017, the Washington Post reported that guitar manufacturing giant Gibson’s annual revenue slipped from $2.1 billion to $1.7 billion and that rival guitar manufacturer Fender was likewise feeling the pinch.
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When times were good, Snider, himself a pro level guitarist, owned Jeff’s Guitars, from 1992 to 2005, a Kearny Mesa shop where he built and repaired guitar amplifiers.
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