Hi! I’m Peter Hodgson. Welcome to I Heart Guitar!
Aside from this site, I also write for Gibson.com, Australian Guitar, Australian Musician, Mixdown Magazine, and sometimes Beat and The Brag. I’ve been playing guitar since I was 8 years old, and I’ve been writing for magazines since I was 18 (I’m 32 now). I studied Professional Writing at university and aside from a bunch of writing jobs I’ve also worked as a guitar teacher (up to 50 students a week) and a setup tech. I live in Melbourne, Australia with my beautiful partner (check out her site here) and our 4-year-old son (who is probably an even bigger Beatles geek than we are).
You can check out my guitar playing on my ancient, never-updated Myspace or on YouTube.
You can email me at iheartguitarblog@gmail.com
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Hi! I'm Peter Hodgson. I write for Gibson.com, Australian Guitar, Australian Musician, Mixdown Magazine (including my instructional column, 'Unleash Your Inner Rock God,' which has been running since 2007), guitarworld.com, Tone Deaf, Beat (including their weekly hard rock/metal column Crunch) and The Brag. And I'm Assistant Social Coordinator with Seymour Duncan.
I've been playing guitar since I was 8 years old, and I've been writing for magazines since I was 18. I've also worked as a guitar teacher (up to 50 students a week), a setup tech, a newspaper editor, and I've also dabbled in radio a little bit. I live in Melbourne, Australia, and my hobbies include drinking way too much coffee, and eating way too much Mexican food.
You can check out my guitar playing at Reverbnation or on YouTube, and feel free to email me at iheartguitarblog@gmail.com
Hi Peter, Chris here from Thomas Lloyd Guitars. We just posted the same info on our facebook site – Great News! Just wondering if you do freelance work and would like to come and see us at our Montsalvat premises. We are Australia’s largest school of acoustic guitar making and we run classes in Melbourne, Tassie and Italy once a year. We head off in 4 weeks. We also are planning a exhibition of guitars that will be solely made from Australian tonewoods – ranging from the first ever built guitars to the modern guitar – both Classical and Steel String. If you are interested we would love to meet you before we head off to italy.
Drop us a line or call us.
Chris Wynne – Thomas Lloyd Guitars – Australia
0403 910 880
or Fiona Mitchell (PR) 0419 102 290
Chat Soon.
Why do people say “I Heart…”? It was intended to say “I love…” using a symbol rather than the word.
The heart was a symbol for love
I heart guitar = I love guitar.
Just curious..
Mike
Hey Peter, love your blog!
Found it about a year ago and have been following since, and spreading the word…
Anyways, just saw this video and for some reason, I thought you might find it interesting as well…
http://www.autoblog.com/2011/06/10/most-epic-beer-commercial-stars-delorean-monster-truck/#continued
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Hi Peter.
Just wondering if you will be sharing a best gifts for Christmas lsit this year?
I wanted to remind you of PICKBAY…..
Susan
Hey Peter,
I enjoyed your Top 10 Riders compilation from Smoking Gun.
I’m writing to ask permission to use all/some of it for Front of House magazine.
Thanks for the consideration. PS. Melbourne is the coolest city on the planet.
Ever notice that the “highway to hell” is any road that leads away from it?
Sincerely,
Mark Frink
Editor, FOH magazine
foh@markfrink.com
http://www.fohonline.com
Nice blog, Peter. My son just returned from a one year backpacker trip through Australia. According to him, there are plenty of guitar players over there.