Hi to all from a Scot living in Ripon, England

Don't know why I've not done this before but here goes.
As the moniker suggests I think of myself as an old rock fan but always open to something new. The reality might be something different when I think about my music collection.
Fave bands of all time are Zeppelin and Tull, closely followed by "newer" bands like Kings X and Dream Theater. Some of you will know these last 2 are hardly new i.e. 20 years old as opposed to 40 years old!
However, the passion to see an artist or band in concert (if possible) having been hooked by their music still burns bright thankfully (dodgy metaphor I know). I can still remember what it was like the first time I heard a tune called Heartbreaker by a band called Led Zeppelin. One such new band that has hooked me and caused me to travel the breadth of the country in thew last 2 and a bit years is Alter Bridge. Got my wife to go to one gig and enjoy bits of it even though she prefers 80's music (new romantic c**p and the like).

The other, you will have surmised by now, is Joe. I hadn't actually heard of him or anything by him until I was given a ticket to see a blues artist called Joe Bonamassa at some small hall in South Shields in late September 2006. My musical tastes had been focused more on hard rock / metal for a couple of years and "blues" by any new artist didn't get a look in. I decided to go to the gig because 1) it was reasonably close to where I used to work and 2) I'd got the ticket in my hand.
What an evening. My gob was truly smacked listening to him play blues / rock, the like of which I hadn't heard since Gary Moore in the 70's (not the 90's). I felt I could hear a number of influences in his playing but what the hell, he was doing it better!! Went and bought (honest) all his albums to see what I had been missing as well as Rockpalast. Got to Shepherds Bush last March and sprinted to a space at the front & middle to see what he was doing, and did even better this time at the The Cockpit (right behind Michael & Geoff).

Thanks to Tripsy for the prompt.

My name is Colin and I am a Joe-aholic.