 | |||
I’ve been juggling a couple of projects and helping my mother get ready for yet another surgery. Meantime, here’s a musical interlude to fill the time during the intermission. I can’t get this Jimmy Barnes song out of my head lately, so here it is…
Direct link
The Guardian passes along the sad news that music legend Bo Diddley has died. I had the pleasure of doing a show with him back in the 80’s. He was a great deal of fun to work for, without a trace of ego problems. That’s quite a surprise considering that music legends [...]
Tags: music
From time to time I plan to put up plugs for some of my favorite podcasts. I can’t stand either broadcast television or what passes for radio in Seattle, so I get most of my entertainment from podcasts. Today, I thought I’d plug one of my favorite blues podcasts, Murphy’s Saloon. He [...]
This is a new instrument I haven’t heard of before called a Hang(pronounced ‘hung’ or ‘hong’). It sounds similar to a steel drum, but with a mellower tone. It’s an incredible instrument, and I’d love to get one, but I understand that it requires a trip to Europe to get one. The [...]
Tags: music
I just found something that has put me in serious nostalgia mode tonight. I was bored this evening and just putting some names of people I haven’t seen in a long time into search engines, and I found a band on that I used to run lights for back in the early ’80’s called [...]
For those of you young musical types thinking about trying to sign with a major label, surf guitar pioneer Dick Dale has a little advice in this YouTube clip:
Hat tip to BoingBoing.
Update: This video is no longer available on YouTube. If you want to see it, let me know and I’ll look for it.
I’m really burned out on politics today, So I was poking around YouTube and found this wonderful clip from two of the greats, Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughn. I had the pleasure of working with SRV in the early 80’s. I had the time of my life. Enjoy.
Update: This video is [...]
Tags: music
And several thousand nightclub owners all over America say to themselves, “there but for the grace of God go I.”
I used to do sound and lighting in nightclubs all over the Pacific Northwest. When that horrible fire broke out, I said that it was a miracle that such fires didn’t happen every weekend. [...]
Tags: music
I’m not usually a Pink fan, but this song really moved me. The video was done by an amateur but couldn’t be done much better by a pro. It raises some good questions that I’d like “Mr. President” to answer. I wonder how Bush and his minions can look themselves in the mirror [...]
The National Music Publishers Association has shut down the On Line Guitar Archive, a site hosting user-produced guitar tablatures, with a take-down letter under the DMCA. The NMPA’s behavior here, like the RIAA’s is both wrong and stupid. Suing your customers, in this case guitarists, is counter-productive. Musicians, myself included, are voracious [...]
