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My freind Fritz Kirsch once said to me "For a photograper interested in history it is important to realize your place in it, your job of chronicling your family's history makes it imperative that you include yourself more. As in the old days of the minstrels, you are the interlocator, the connector between times gone and those yet to come."
Some photographs of me (Steve Knoblock, Arl. Va) at various times and places.
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This is one of my favorite pictures late 60's. I'm holding a giant screw at the Post Office Garage in Arl./Alex.
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| This is me circa 1979/80? or so and my brother's Gibson ES335 style bass. With cool shades. |
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Fritz also asked me once "Don't you just play guitar for pleasure?" I had a long draught where I didn't play guitar, even when I had the guitars around I did not play them very much. I put too much pressure on myself to play well and I'm a bit uncoordinated so playing can be difficult. It was always chore no matter how much I wanted to play. Then I decided to just play what I enjoyed playing and things got better. I still generally compose music using Cakewalk instead of on the guitar. I got a Takamine acoustic in 1994 so I could pick up Bluegrass guitar, but work has kept it in the case most of the time. I keep my Charvel electric on the stand and play it quietly when I can in the Apt. I just got a Rockman Distortion Generator, so I hope to use that for low volume playing and direct into the computer. |
| This our backyard in winter of 1969 on Echols Ave. in Alexandria, VA. I'm driving the small sized tractor we had to maintain our garden and mow the lawn. Yes, I actually drove it at five years old. Unsupervised and did fine. My dad cut some trails in the brush way back in the yard and I would run it through the trees. He built the small garage from Fruit Growers Express boxcar sides. We also went down to where they were tearing up the old W.O. & D railroad right of way and got some spikes. He made a rake harrow from them to be pulled from the tractor in our garden. |
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Was it David Blaine or Uri Geller I studied with? Anyway, Dilbert seems to be entranced.
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