The Start with an Acoustic Myth

There is a myth out there that has been stated by many well-meaning guitar players for years. It goes like this; If you’re going to learn to play the guitar you should start on an acoustic guitar first and then switch to an electric if you so wish. I’m not sure where this comes from, [...]

Paradis Avalon Guitars

While stumbling around on the internet looking for fretless guitar designs I came upon this website. It showcased a guitar that I’d never heard of. It is called the Paradis Avalon model guitar. It caught my eye for a few reasons. First, the Avalon model has nylon strings on an electric guitar. There are other [...]

Polytone Mini Brute

In many ways I’m not the typical guitar player. I’m not quite sure what the typical guitar player is, but it isn’t me. One of the popular trends in amps these days (and really for quite a while) has been the tube amp. Tube Amps are often preferred for their warm tone, but mostly because [...]

Choosing a Guitar Teacher

There are probably a million really good guitar players in the world. Maybe more. I’ve met some amazing guitar players, and worked with several who blew me away. But most of the really prodigious talents that I met were not very good teachers. Of course, there are exceptions to that rule, but the general statement [...]

You Don’t Know How Lucky You Have It. An IBM Story!

Vietnamese Blogger Nguyen Tien Trung, like most recent graduates was excited when he was offered his dream job. In Nguyen case the job was with the America based computer giant IBM. He remained excited up until he received a phone call from an IBM Human Resources worker asking if he was a blogger who had [...]

Faerie’s Aire and Death Waltz

Still working on this one. I can’t seem to get from the bicycle to the timpani to the cattle enclosure in 7/4 time.

MyBlogLog and Yahoo

MyBlogLog has just switched to a system by which you have to have a Yahoo ID in order to use the service. That is frustrating to me. I have one ID and one account through which I do all of my blogging. That account is ran through google.
Sorry, MyBlogLog. At least for now you won’t [...]

Seagull S6+ Folk Acoustic Guitar

I was in the market for an acoustic guitar after my first one that I ever own had been stolen from me. I was looking for something with a smaller body, good tone, and good playability. At this point the playability of an instrument had become very important to me as this was after I’d [...]

Warwick Thumb 5 Bolt On

When I first started to play bass I borrowed an old clunker from a friend of mine. It was a BC Rich Thunderbolt bass. I played that thing for a couple years and that’s what I used whenever I played bass. Eventually I joined a gospel band when they needed a bass player. They gave [...]

Grand Weeper’s 2007 NFL Preview: The AFC

Here is the second part of my football preview. Last time we tackled the NFC. This time we take a look at the AFC.
The AFC has been the dominant of the two conferences for quite a while now. AFC teams have won eight of the last ten Superbowls leading back to the first of Denver’s [...]