Ooh, forgot to mention before… if you’re looking to pick up some jazz guitar skills, but have no idea where to start, my friend Matt is bloggishly documenting his own chronologically accurate journey of discovery… Swing to Bop
Entries Tagged as 'Friends'
Remembering to play guitar
June 30th, 2008 · 11 Comments · Friends, Guitar, Music
What with the football, a week in the Lake District, a number of weekends away and the general stream of transcribing, guitar-magazining and bluesjamtracking, I just haven’t really done much guitar playing recently. That is to say, I always have a guitar to hand when I’m transcribing and I’ve practised stuff for the magazine CD, [...]
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The notWigan that nearly wasn’t
November 20th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Friends, Guitar, Music
So, last weekend marked the sixth annual uk.music.guitar national get-together. I’ve been to four of the six and find myself developing an almost complacent expectation that the event will be exciting, amusing, interesting and inspiring in equal measure. A number of external glitches conspired to threaten the very existence of this year’s event, but that [...]
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In praise of talented friends
July 25th, 2006 · No Comments · Friends, Guitar, Music
As you know, I always like to support people who Do Their Stuff independently of the corporate mainstream. And when those people are my friends, hey, they even get free advertising here! Jon Boyes is a classical and flamenco guitarist based in south-west England, and his debut album “Haçienda” is now available from his website. [...]
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No Sleep ’til notWigan
November 22nd, 2005 · No Comments · Friends, Guitar, Music
I was in Albrighton, Shropshire over the weekend, the occasion being the fifth annual UKMG National. As usual, a lot of people got together to play a lot of guitar, while drinking a lot of beer and generally having a lot of fun. Our traditional venue, the Mabs Cross hotel in Wigan, is no longer [...]
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UKMG in suits!
May 17th, 2004 · No Comments · Friends
Much drunken fun over the weekend, as several of the UKMG regulars were down in Wiltshire for Justin’s wedding. Lovely weather, picturesque setting, fine company…
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Bill Jehle interview
July 3rd, 2003 · No Comments · Friends, Guitar, Music, Music industry
Regular readers may know that I contribute to the Guitarist Home Recording Collective, a fun little Net community involving guitarists of all styles and ability levels. One of my Collective friends, Bill Jehle, has released an independent CD of his music, and is working on building up a little network of publicity, including an interview [...]
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New music – Talking About Nothing on a Summer Evening
June 5th, 2003 · No Comments · Friends, Guitar, Music
A little bit of new music. It’s a short collaboration with my good pal Rick Booth… Talking About Nothing on a Summer Evening (3.2MB mp3) Here’s how it happened… Rick gave me a recording of his guitar part, a solo piece that he’d recorded a while ago and never found a use for. I came [...]
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Mah-Jongg, Mercury Rev and midnight snacks
February 24th, 2003 · No Comments · Drivel, Friends, Music
This evening, Nicola and I made the 45-second trek (!) to our local, the Robin Hood, where we met our friends Lindsey and Howard. A couple of months ago, we gave Lindsey a Mah-Jongg set for her birthday, and this evening we made fine use of the warm, comfortable environment in the Robin Hood and [...]
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New music – 18 Champs Elysées
February 1st, 2003 · No Comments · Friends, Guitar, Music
Once I get going, I just can’t stop… still in my feverish froth of musical inspiration, I did another quick recording this afternoon. It’s another piece for the Recording Collective mentioned in the previous entry. The task was to reinvent one of the other Collective members’ songs in a different style. I decided to use [...]
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