Coming in from the side –Guitarist, writer, booker, and former sideman Shaun Hague takes center stage
Shaun Hague, who plays at Brixton on Jan. 21. Photo by Adam ArnoldIt began, like so many rock n’ roll dreams, with a slouchy teenager alone in his bedroom. Shaun Hague was 13 years old and up to pretty much nothing. One thing he knew he liked were the old classic records his dad would play when he was out working on the car or puttering around the house – Springsteen, Billy Joel, the Beatles. He loved the music so much that occurred to him maybe he should try actually playing it. “What these guys are doing seems like it would be kind of fun,” Hague remembered thinking. So he talked his folks into buying him a cheap electric guitar and a few lessons. But he didn’t exactly take to it right away, and one day his dad wondered aloud what was going on with that guitar. “Have you practiced lately?” his dad asked. “Uh…I haven’t picked it up in about a week,” the kid replied. “Well, go play it now, or else we are going to bring it back,” his dad said. For once in his 13-year-old life, he did exactly what his father told him to do. “You know, there I was, sitting in my room going, ‘Well, maybe I should go pick it up, because I’m really not good at anything else right now, and I don’t see…
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