Hi! My name's John Culp. I live in Bristol, Tennessee, "The Birthplace of Country Music." (Too bad I'm really not much into country music!) Some of you know me as "Ricochet" from various blues and guitar related boards. (I'm sure I'm not the only one out there with that handle.) I play for fun, mostly by myself. I've been into music of various sorts for most of my life, but I just took up guitar in 2001 at the age of 45, a year after nearly tearing my right arm off in a motorcycle accident. I was getting enough function back that I thought I could do it, my teenage son had started taking guitar lessons, I'd long wanted to play guitar, and decided to go for it. My kid's a lot better than I am, but I have fun! I play nearly entirely slide stuff in open tunings. That just "clicked" with me, which standard tuning fretted playing never has for some reason. I think the open slide stuff is reminiscent of keyboard, and I started off with piano as a kid. I'm learning to play a 1967 Hammond H-182 organ that I recently acquired. I've just gotten a lap steel and am learning to play it. I like to do silly stuff like record blues songs for my answering machine messages. It's all for fun!