Dave Hole (born March 30, 1948 in Heswall, Cheshire, England) is an Australian slide guitarist well known for his exciting style of playing rock & roll and blues music. Moving to Perth, Western Australia aged four years, he became interested in blues music after hearing a school friend's Muddy Waters album when he was around six years of age. Receiving his first guitar at age twelve he started to teach himself due to lack of guitar teachers being available in Perth at the time, using the albums of Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Blind Willie Johnson, Skip James, Blind Lemon Jefferson. He later continued teaching himself with the albums of Robert Johnson , Elmore James, and Mississippi Fred McDowell. He broke his finger in a football accident and then though left-handed, he played the guitar right-handed by putting the slide on his index finger and then would hang his hand over the top of the guitar neck. After healing he had gotten so used to the 'wrong' way of

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