Bert Weedon died

As no doubt you all know he was a major influence on thousands of British and other kids who having lusted for dreams of guitar stardom bought his little book and started trying to play ,usually on crappy unplayable guitars or even cricket bats
RIP Bert ,We all owe you a lot

Sad news. I remember going to the library when I was younger to get "play in a day" out constantly.
R I P bert.

As no doubt you all know he was a major influence on thousands of British and other kids who having lusted for dreams of guitar stardom bought his little book and started trying to play ,usually on crappy unplayable guitars

...and patched into the record player or an equally crappy amp.

You just described my teens.

...and then itsGreg comes along and hits me with the book too.

A few moments of silence please, followed by some fret buzz and swearing under the breath.

......

I will go home, look for the book, and try to play something from it this evening.

My dad's gonna be upset. Bert is the only guitar player he ever talks about - he was that big a deal in his day.

He was virtually the ONLY guitarist allowed on the BBC who controlled everything .All we got was Bert and a guy named Wout Steenhaus ,forgive probable poor spelling.its a wonder so much great music poured out of the UK considering how little we were allowed to hear in the early days .

A bit of Bert at his best. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtctpGkleLA&feature=youtube_gdata_player

RIP Bert!

RIP Bert.You were great mate.... I learned to play using Berts "Play In a Day" on an old non electric Hofner Congress that had a bowed neck (no trussrod). And I set myself to learn and be able to change quickly 4 chords per night (eg, C Am F G or A D E7 with the occasional B7 thrown in) And then go and show my fellow learners what I'd learned. Found that back in those days (mid 50's) playing guitar pulled the girls. I'm still married to the one I pulled and have been for 51 years. Couldn't have done it without Berts help...... Slowpoke

I'm originally from Bristol UK. Came to Oz in 83.... SP.:lol:

RIP Bert. I inherited my Grandad's Strat along with a copy of 'Play in a Day' a few years ago when he passed away. Learnt to play (to the best of my limited ability) with that book and haven't looked back. Sad day

I just heard the sad news from my buddy. Bert was no doubt among the last of the old-time pro dance-band guys and did a lot of session work in the early days of British Rock'n'Roll. It was he who recorded the first version of Jerry Lordan's "Apache", later a big hit for The Shadows and also Jørgen Ingmann.

Though his style might have seemed a bit cheesy to younger players, he was an ace dance-band and jazz guitarist who could read flysh!t and of course his "Play In A Day" instruction book was immensely influential - though I myself didn't read it until after I'd learned to play a bit already.

More stuff here (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/9216664/Bert-Weedon-inspired-a-golden-generation.html).

BTW, musicalmartin - you weren't far out; it was actually Wout Steenhuis.

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RIP Bert.

Crikey, another one gone. There's been a real influx lately.

RIP Bert

RIP Bert Weedon

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17781762

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I played a water rats convention at the Grosvenor hotel when Bert was 'King Rat' and got to meet him and say 'hi' and it was like meeting royalty, i turned into a total fan boy but he was an absolute gent and we had a great 'natter'.
To be honest - I never had the book, I'm from the generation after but I never told Bert that :)

RIP Bert

Eric Clapton has said in the past that he had "never met a player of any consequence" who had not learned from Bert's 'Play In A Day' books.

RIP

Sad news. I remember going to the library when I was younger to get "play in a day" out constantly.
R I P bert.

Theres a wonderful irony in needing to constantly go back for a book called 'Play in a Day' ;)

I remember Bert W featuring on 'Jim'll Fix it' ( 80's UK TV program where kids write in to request their dreams are made to come true ).
This one fine young fellow wanted to play Guitar really well (probably like Jimmy Page) , so they got Bert in to give the boy some lessons.

Berts most urgent advice was that there was no need to pull all these 'silly shapes' , 'funny faces' and daft moves while playing.
Not sure what the kid made of it, but as I recall he got a guitar as a present from Bert.
Cool stuff!

All the very best Bert.
You did good.
It took longer than a day though.. but .. ;)

RIP

Play in a day, and Play every day - two great books. At one point I had copies of both, but no idea where they ended up.

Bert Weedon & Hank Marvin between them must have inspired an entire generation of guitatists.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGiLICe0kL4&feature=relmfu

I remember having this LP on vinyl & learning to play more than a few of the tracks.

RIP Bert-I don't have the book but I do have a few of these strings!

RIP Bert.