Since I was a kid, my father tried to teach me playing trumpet without success. :-) Cause I didn't like trumpet at all .-)

1981: In Lam Son (near Ba` Ri.a) I saw and touched the guitar for the first time in my life when I visited my neighbour. I played "Ave Maria" with only one string (I can still remember that it was B-string, hihihi). In June 1981, I left Vietnam by boat and came to Kuku, and then Galang in Indonesia. In Galang I heard many lovely Vietnamese songs like Ngu+o+`i O+? La.i Charlie, Em Hie^`n Nhu+ Ma Soeur etc.

1982: Dec. 1982 I came to Norway.

1984: I was "deadly" in love with guitar and started to take guitar lessions. Lo`ng Me. is the first song I learned to play (only notes, not accords).

1985: Bought my first classic guitar. And at school I learned histories about Mozart, Bach, Bethoveen, Schubert, Grieg etc. And of course much about Rock & Roll and Blues: The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Jimmy Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Bob Marley, Bob Dylan, B.B. King, Ike Turner, John Lee Hooker and many more.

And in this year, 1985, I joined "Ca DDoa`n Trinh Vu+o+ng Junior" in Oslo. Here I took music theory lessions and learned how to sing, and I learned much theory at home from my father too.

1986: Was in love with piano, but without success. And I realized that guitar was my favorite instrument.

1987: Joined the band "Gio' Mu`a", a Vietnamese church band.

1988: I quited Gio' Mu`a, and the rock band "LAST WILL" was borned from the idea of our Norwegian music teacher (Svein) and ourself.

The members of LAST WILL:
When I was a member of Last Will, I came in contact with many other rock bands in Norway. It was this time I learned much about how to play Rock and Blues. We practiced together at least 3 times a week, and every time lasted min. 3-4 hours. We composed our own songs and my first song was "Tine" (Tine is a Norwegian girlname, I wrote this song to Tommy Ødegård when he was lovesick with Tine). My Norwegian companions and I were happy, cause we earned some moneys too ! And we thought we were the champions of the world. hihi, why ? We were just kids by that time, you know.

1990: Everything good has always an end. In summer 1990 we said good bye to LAST WILL. And I said good bye to my guitar, Gibson. By that time, I was really tired of playing guitar, and I concentrated on school.

1995: I left Oslo, student in Trondheim. Computer science.

1997-2000: In 1997, my friend Vinh encouraged me to play guitar again. And I did it ! Since 1997 I've played guitar in "one man band", usually just to keep my life as a student going on. .-). But the feeling to get back on stage has not come back. And today I wish I can play guitar as well as I did in 1990, but it seems that it will take a long time .-) But I'm coming back !

Trondheim, Norway, January 2000
Pham-Duc Thang

2001-2007: Too busy with my job. No more guitar.
2007-2008: I bought a second hand Takamine TF341DLX in June 2007, and started playing a little.
2009-2010: A new Martin D-28 in Christmas 2008. And from Mars 2009 I practice guitar 2-3 hours every week. This is the first time since 1989, I can feel the music is running in my blood. :-)