(Slight) Change of Rules

As you know Guitar Noise  is giving away two autographed copies of my latest book, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Guitar each month throughout the rest of 2011.

To enter this giveaway, just get yourself a copy of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Playing Rock Guitar and simply take a picture of yourself, with the book, someplace relatively picturesque. You don’t have to have the Eiffel Tower or Mount Rushmore in the background, but try to be creative. As the saying goes, and as Paul literally did, you don’t have to go any further than your own back yard! Paul Hackett and I will be selecting two photos a month and will send an autographed copy of “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Guitar” to those whose pictures are chosen.

Just send your photos to me at dhodgeguitar@aol.com and be sure to include an email address where you can be reached, as well as a mailing address. And please put “Picture Book” in the subject line of the email.

Okay, that’s the old news. So what do I do when I get a picture like this, from Denny of California:

Well, my first thought is that, does he want a second copy of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Guitar? He’s obviously already got one! But he’s definitely got the spirit of the contest at heart, so after some discussion, we’re sending an autographed copy of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Playing Rock Guitar out to Denny and he should be receiving it sometime in the upcoming week or so.

So, I guess I’m saying that if you’ve got one book and want another, take a photo of yourself with the book you’ve got! We’re looking forward to hearing from you.

And our next lucky winner will be announced right here in on Febrary 15. And, as always, we wish the best of luck to everyone who enters!

And if you’d simply like to buy a copy, feel free to click on the link right here on my blog. If you’d like an autographed copy, just write me directly (dhodgeguitar@aol.com) for details.

And my thanks, by the way, to all those who have already bought a copy as well as to those who have taken the time to write and post reviews. I truly appreciate your making the time to do so.

Peace

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Top of the World

Some of you have written me since the first of the year asking how Charley is doing, not to mention what he’s doing with his time now that he isn’t writing the Guitar Noise News anymore. Well, he seems to be doing a little be of adventure travel, as evidenced by this photo:

Looks rather peaceful, no? Of course, if you’re ten feet above any potential problems, life probably is fairly peaceful.

By the way, those of you with eagle eyes may be saying, “That can’t be David’s home – those are right handed guitars hanging on the wall!” Well, you’d be right with the guitars but wrong about the home. Those righties belong to my partner, Karen. If the camera had caught a little more on the right you would have seen one of mine hanging next to Karen’s Firefly acoustic bass.

As big a cat as Charley is, he’s in good shape and likes to do a lot more adventurous things than I would dare to do! He would have undoubtedly had a much better time walking along the rooftops of Stockholm than I did.

Peace

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Winner for January 15

Throughout this New Year of 2011, Guitar Noise will be giving away two autographed copies of my latest book, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Guitar each month, usually on the first and fifteenth.

If you’d like to enter this giveaway, just get yourself a copy of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Playing Rock Guitar and simply take a picture of yourself, with the book, someplace relatively picturesque. You don’t have to have the Eiffel Tower or Mount Rushmore in the background, but try to be creative. As the saying goes, and as Paul literally did, you don’t have to go any further than your own back yard! Paul Hackett and I will be selecting two photos a month and will send an autographed copy of “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Guitar” to those whose pictures are chosen.

Just send your photos to me at dhodgeguitar@aol.com and be sure to include an email address where you can be reached, as well as a mailing address. And please put “Picture Book” in the subject line of the email.

Marilyn from New York is our January 15 winner!

A copy of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Guitar should be in Marilyn’s possession as we speak.

And our next lucky winner will be announced right here in on the first of Febrary. And, as always, we wish the best of luck to everyone who enters!

And if you’d simply like to buy a copy, feel free to click on the link right here on my blog. If you’d like an autographed copy, just write me directly (dhodgeguitar@aol.com) for details.

And my thanks, by the way, to all those who have already bought a copy as well as to those who have taken the time to write and post reviews. I truly appreciate your making the time to do so.

Peace

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