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100 Great Guitar Moments – #80 to 71

Yes, it’s that time again when another 10 guitaristic delights get featured here for your listening pleasure. It’s worth reiterating that this is a very personal choice that will vary over time and the...

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9 other things to do with a guitar

It’s all very well being able to play a guitar, but what else can you do with one? 1. You can spin around with it or even just spin it around:   2. You can perform acrobatics with it:   3. You can twat...

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100 Great Guitar Moments – #90 to 81

Time for another 10 in the list – an eclectic mix ranging from jazz through rock to psychedelia. The Shadows – The Savage: There’s nothing wrong with a simple job well done, but sometimes, musically,...

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Lunch in Tahiti

A good morning’s digging has restored me to a far less jaded state than I’ve been in since yesterday. The cause of this was yesterday’s visit to this area’s best-kept secret when it comes to...

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100 Great Guitar Moments – #100 to 91

Well, here goes… Mansun – Wide open Space: Although I rate this song very highly – likewise the band and their brief recorded career – it’s the guitar intro that particularly appeals to me. Dissonance...

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Another good one gone…Bert Jansch RIP

A person would be a moron not to appreciate McLaughlin’s technique. The guy has certainly found out how to operate a guitar as if it were a machine gun. But I’m not always enthusiastic about the lines...

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A bun in the oven?

Little did we know 10 months ago, that when we bought our house we also bought this:     Although it doesn’t look much, this unprepossessing structure is actually a four à pain, or bread oven. It...

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Don’t put that piano wire away quite yet…

Only a total fucking moron would think that after the exposure by the Telegraph of UK MPs’ expenses abuse, everything in the garden was lovely. Not so. Like distant thunder after a storm, scandal still...

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St Dave and the iconoclast

It takes a very special type of imbecile to provoke such seemingly contradictory feelings of utter boredom and total annoyance, but David Cameron has managed to take up the mantle with this latest...

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Nationalist Francophobia

With anti-European sentiment running high at the moment, it really should come as no surprise to find that social networking sites such as Facebook are vast repositories of such views. (Or should that...

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Plod plodding again

One of the bigger stories of the day is this.     Yes, regardless of one’s views on immigration, etc, it was a disgusting spectacle as this mother’s ignorance was on full display for all to see. But...

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A musical Damascus moment

As I hope this blog makes abundantly clear, music is – to quote Frank Zappa – ‘the best’. Consequently, I type this surrounded by my guitars, recording equipment, amps and shelves and shelves full of...

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Those academic shitheads strike again

‘Strewth… It appears that those two academic shitheads of the decade – Cohn and Linzey – are at it again. Yes, the God-bothering Cohn and chinchilla-wearing Linzey aren’t just whining like bitches...

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Amishing you already…

Dame Fortune is a contrary old biddy. Who’d have thought that in a week when Channel 4 had this scheduled, that this would hit the headlines? Yes, it’s those zany Amish characters cropping up all over...

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I Dunno…

One of my favourite Georgia Satellite songs performed by my favourite Satellite, Dan Baird, with one of my favourite guitarists, Warner E Hodges (also in Jason and the Scorchers – another one of my...

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Don’t put that piano wire away quite yet…

Only a total fucking moron would think that after the exposure by the Telegraph of UK MPs’ expenses abuse, everything in the garden was lovely. Not so. Like distant thunder after a storm, scandal still...

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St Dave and the iconoclast

It takes a very special type of imbecile to provoke such seemingly contradictory feelings of utter boredom and total annoyance, but David Cameron has managed to take up the mantle with this latest...

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Nationalist Francophobia

With anti-European sentiment running high at the moment, it really should come as no surprise to find that social networking sites such as Facebook are vast repositories of such views. (Or should that...

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Plod plodding again

One of the bigger stories of the day is this.     Yes, regardless of one’s views on immigration, etc, it was a disgusting spectacle as this mother’s ignorance was on full display for all to see. But...

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A musical Damascus moment

As I hope this blog makes abundantly clear, music is – to quote Frank Zappa – ‘the best’. Consequently, I type this surrounded by my guitars, recording equipment, amps and shelves and shelves full of...

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