John is an enthusiastic and passionate speaker and can use examples from his own life to show how anyone can be successful in their chosen field.
One of the main stories in his presentation concerns how he started out playing the guitar in the late 1990s and the challenges he faced. He loved music but knew nothing about how it worked.
He couldn’t tune his own guitar and his instrument was so bad that when John went for his first guitar lesson his instructor told him to throw it away!
Shortly afterwards he went to see the world famous jazz guitarist Martin Taylor in concert. John was completely blown away by this show.
He dedicated himself to learning the instrument and focused on rock and pop styles, before becoming a successful acoustic blues guitarist.
John eventually became a guitar tutor himself and in October 2014 something very special happened – he became the support act for Martin Taylor’s show in the Isle of Man.