Category Archives: Music
Jazz guitar without tears
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
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Remembering to play guitar
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 … Continue reading
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Becoming Abnormal
It’s my considered opinion that Bumblefoot’s album “Normal” is the finest rock album of the 21st century so far. Nick mentioned how he’s been playing the Alter Bridge album constantly, and that’s exactly how it was for me when “Normal” … Continue reading
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Girls with herpes love this song
I’ve been a fan of Paul Ford’s Ftrain writings for ages, but this article, from the Morning News, is one of the best things I’ve ever read by him… Six-Word Reviews of 763 SXSW Mp3s
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The secret of audiophile sound… in your wardrobe
I’m sure every industry has its share of snake-oil and bad science; the music/audio industry is certainly no exception. This made me giggle… Audiophiles can’t tell the difference between Monster Cable and coat hangers (engadget.com) It doesn’t surprise me, to … Continue reading
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Karlheinz Stockhausen 1928-2007
German composer Stockhausen dies (BBC)
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Blasts from the past on Myspace
My ability to dig out, rebrand and re-pimp old recordings is starting to amaze even me. Looking to refresh the musical selection on my Myspace page, I delved back to 2002 and found a couple of tunes that I’d almost … Continue reading
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Winter Thames Sunset… revisited
Yes, in a poor attempt to hide the fact that I haven’t written any new music since 1974, I have once more plunged into the back catalogue in search of another “yes, very nice, but…” tune. The latest victim is … Continue reading
New (-ly reworked old) music
I’ve been re-evaluating some old recordings recently. I find that some of the tunes I’ve made for the Guitarist Collective can sound a bit uncomfortably contrived; not surprisingly, as they were all made to fit the monthly challenges. I quite … Continue reading
Tom’s Nine Lives
Any Tom Waits fans reading this? Browsing in Waterstones the other day, I noticed this new biography… The Many Lives of Tom Waits A book of collected interviews has been around for a while, but even the thought of reading … Continue reading
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