About SoloDallas

 

Hi, and welcome to my home (I was taught – when studying English in the younger years – that you shouldn’t ever say “my home”: it’s implicit in the word “home”. But this is an informal, friendly place – and so it will stay – so I took the liberty to express it that way).

This is a place I have long wanted. I have told you about it, several times, in several ways. It’s been in my mind for a long time.

Why? Because. Because I wanted a window on the world where I could talk to you from. And keep on playing the guitar from. Show you things, with detailed information, in written, video or any possible media format form available to us. I have been studying myself and rock and roll for quite some time now – maybe twenty long but fast years – and I have learnt a few things about both (me, my guitar & rock and roll, actually).

My name is Filippo F. Olivieri, a perfect stranger and a simple nobody. I was born in Dallas, TX (USA) back in 1968 and I now live in Rome, IT (still an American Citizen). I always liked Star Wars – as a kid and as an adult – and I kind of looked like Harrison Ford at times (yes, I know) so I had called myself “Solo”. Since I love America, I also gave it a little addition and it became – childishly – SoloDallas. So no, it didn’t have any relation to playing the guitar, yet: just a foolish, simple screen name.

With it – though – I got some recognition some time ago on YouTube, where a few videos of my goofy figure playing rock and roll had gathered some 14 (fourteen) million video views and a few thousands “subscribers”. Now that YouTube channel of mine is lost, but I built this home for me and for all of you who will want to keep on doing this: play rock and roll.

So who am I? I am a bit of few things. First of all, I try to play guitar. Electric, blues based guitar and some folk (acoustic) guitar. I am also a bit of a gearhead for certain things (mainly, good rock and roll sounding things, among guitars and devices), a geek and a nerd trying to liberate himself of his nerd-ness by means of rock and roll music.  There, that’s me (at least in part, talking music-wise).

There’s a few more things I want to tell you about my philosophy – I won’t be heavy (I’ll try not to) but I need you to know that this place isn’t about me – me – me. I’d like it to be about you, too.

This place won’t work otherwise, and I want it to work. Because I like it. I’ve been doing this – this internet rock and roll thing I mean – for years now. 6, probably. Got into it for good (I hope, if I don’t get arrested or shut down again for copyright infringement).

I’ve put comments an video response features in it for now, but I plan on making some of you “posters” (not posers) here as well, not only me. I don’t want to be playing like if I was in front of the mirror: and at times, I do that. The internet can be good, it’s been good to and for me, I hope it will continue to be so with this other adventure of mine.

Yours,

sincerely,

Fil