Dave Hole (born March 30, 1948, Heswall, Cheshire, England) is an Australian slide guitarist well known for his style of playing
rock-n-roll and
blues. Hole movied to Perth, Western Australia, when he was 4. He became interested in the blues at a very young age, after hearing a school friend's
Muddy Waters' album when he was around 6. Hole received his first guitar at age 12, but had to start teaching himself due to lack of
guitar teachers in Perth, using the albums of
Eric Clapton,
Jimi Hendrix,
Blind Willie Johnson,
Skip James, and
Blind Lemon Jefferson.