Dave Hole is tagged as: blues, blues rock, guitar, contemporary blues, rock Dave Hole (born March 30, 1948, Heswall, Cheshire, England) is an Australian slide guitarist well known for his style of playing rock-n-roll and blues. Hole movied to Perth, Western Australia, when he was 4. He became interested in the blues at a very young age, after hearing a school friend’s Muddy Waters’ album when he was around 6. Hole received his first guitar at age 12, but had to start teaching himself due to lack of guitar teachers in Perth, using the albums of Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Blind Willie Johnson, Skip James, andBlind Lemon Jefferson. Later, he used the albums of Robert Johnson, Elmore James, and Mississippi Fred McDowell as his teachers. Hole broke his finger in a soccer accident, so, even though he was left-handed, he started playing the guitar with his right. He did this by putting the slide on his index finger and then hanging his hand over the top of the guitar neck. By the time his finger healed, he had gotten so used to the ‘wrong’ way of playing that he never turned back. Hole became a professional in 1972, working with a band in London. He returned to Perth in 1974 and spent the next 20 years touring the Western Australian pub circuit. To keep his fans happy, he eventually released “Short Fuse Blues,” a tape... Read More About Dave Hole Biography...  Send Dave Hole ringtones to your cell
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