What is the history behind Guitargeek.Com?
GuitarGeek: The quest for unraveling the mysteries behind guitar and bass player’s rigs started at a very early age for GuitarGeek founder, Adam Cooper. During a childhood trip to Disney’s Magical Kingdom, Adam was found wandering to the front of the Tomorrow Land stage to see what those “big noisy boxes” the Surf cover band, Papa-Doo-Run-Run, were playing through. In later years, this curiosity continued as some of the Geek staff went on to publish the critically acclaimed underground music-zine Whirlpool. Early versions of the GuitarGeek layouts appeared within Whirlpool’s earnest and idealistic pages. This exposure led to the GuitarGeek layouts being featured from time to time within the slick pages of the alt-rock magazine Alternative Press. The first internet version of GuitarGeek appeared on the web in late 1994. The simple block-like diagrams of the Geek’s early days were a far cry from the site’s current eye-popping schematics but the site soon became the holy grail of onstage
