What’s That Dude Play? is the brain child of my wife, Holly Wright. Sitting quietly one humid night in Houston, Texas, surfing the internet on her iMac, she searched futilely for a recent photo of the pedal board of one of her favorite guitar players. A bit of Googling revealed scraps of info scattered across the vastness of the world wide web, but a lot of it well-hidden deep inside random forum threads and none of it more recent than a year ago. Disheartened by her search, she turned to her guitar-playing husband Blake (that’s me!) and said ‘We should do something about this.” And so… we have.

What’s That Dude Play? is a true green field project being built from the ground up. That will likely mean slow growth at first, but our intention is to bring the best and freshest information possible to our readers. To insure that, we’re going to go about this organically and will be looking to get most of our information first hand. That means we’ll be sending a lot of e-mails and going to a lot of shows trying to get bands to participate in the site. Early response has been very encouraging. It would seem that along with fans, a lot of guitar players are also interest in what gear their peers are using to define their tone.

The site will contain industry news, features and interviews, but our bread-and-butter will be the rig repository, where we will house a photo archive of the pedal boards of popular guitarists from all musical genres.

When not running the site, Holly is the office manager of an oilfield supply company and a ringer at Wii Sports Bowling. When not losing to his wife at Wii Sports Bowling, Blake is a journalist for an international energy newspaper.