TRIBUTE TO GUITAR BUILDER
GERARD MELANCON
by Andrej Grozdanov
My name is Andrej Grozdanov. I was born prestigious universities in Europe. At a young in Croatia and I am GIT (Guitar Institute of age music in Church inspired me more than I recorded one of the very first Worship albums
Technology) graduate and I also have an MA anything, and I knew it would be part of my life in the then war-affected Balkan region in 1998.
in Theology and Philosophy at one of the most without knowing in what form and intensity. Before that, I had chance to be an eye witness
of the birth of the UK Worship scene when the
youth band Cutting Edge became Delirious?.
Back when Matt Redman was a teenager
holding a guitar bigger than him. At that time, I
lived in London and believe that this period put
a vision and stamp of what would happen later.
After many years of working on raising the
sound of worship in the places where modern
Worship music expression was unknown, my
battery dried out, my vision got tired, my soul
was worn. I knew it was time to recharge.
In a search for a place of recovery, I did not
find a better place than CMS (the Christian
Musician Summit conference) that happens
every year in Washington state. The year was
2005 and, although it was far away from where
I live, I bought the plane ticket and went. It was
the place I needed to be. Like every year at
CMS, the line-up of Christian Artists that year
was amazing and for me it was vitally important
to be there after years of giving of myself back
home.
In the lobby of the venue there were many
exhibitor’s booths, and one of them was
Melancon Guitars. The name was familiar to me
as we musicians in Europe were getting huge
and heavy German music store catalog each
year that was the size of a telephone book. In
there were Melancon guitars lined up… looking
like candy and far out of reach for our standard.
Andrej Grozdanov
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November 2019
I asked the gentleman there if I could pick
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