Hi, this is Micky Moody, I’m a guitar player. I have been kicking around for a few years now. I started playing as a child really when I was 12. When I was 16 I left home and went to London with my friend Paul Rodgers and got stuck into the music business, of course in them days there was a hell of a lot of opportunities but I was very dedicated and I think you have to be if you want to make it in this business.

I joined a band called Tramline and we made a couple of albums for Island Records. After that I joined a soul band called Lucas and the Mike Cotton Sound. After that I played for a while with Zoot Money and then was asked to join Juicy Lucy which was really my introduction to the bad old world of rock and roll really.

Anyway, after that I formed a band with a couple of friends called Snafu. I did session work for a few years before teaming up with an old friend of mine from the northeast, Dave Coverdale who I’ve known since late 60’s and eventually it evolved into Whitesnake of which I was the original member.

Throughout all of that, though I was primarily a rock guitarist, blues guitarist, I always had a love for acoustic guitar, but I played steel string acoustic as well, with emphasis on Bert Lams and of course the Mississippi blues players like Robert Johnson. But I always had a love of the acoustic guitar and especially open tunings which I found very, very interesting.

I can honestly say I’ve been in some strange sessions with music I never thought I’d play. Sometimes it was worrying and other times it was pure enjoyment, but I think that’s part of your life as a musician, you have to be prepared.

On a personal level, I think the music that stayed with me throughout my career is probably rock, blues influenced rock and it’s a music I really feel. But that’s the style that I like, it’s a very expressive style, it suits me, it suits my heart, suits my soul and I think at the end of the day, all that, the only advice I can offer to young aspiring musicians is just be yourself.

I think it’s time now to pass on some of my knowledge that I’ve picked up along the way and I’ve enjoyed performing these tutorials. It’s been educational to me as well but I hope that I can pass on to you some of my experience, some of my playing, some of my feeling and hope that it’ll get into you and that it’ll influence you and inspire you to greater heights.