It happened this week
This is the week that was in matters musical…1902, the Gibson Mandolin Guitar Company is formed …1957, rock and roll wild man Jerry Lee Lewis records "Great Balls of Fire"……this same day, while touring...
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This is the week that was in matters musical…1936, Billboard magazine, which began publishing news about circuses in 1894, publishes the first record sales chart … Joe Venuti’s jazz number “Stop! Look!...
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This is the week that was in matters musical…1941, jazz musician Sidney Bechet records two saxophone parts, clarinet, bass, piano, and drums on a recording of “The Sheik of Araby” … the multitrack...
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This is the week that was in matters musical…1958, from the Dangers of Rock & Roll Department: researchers at Esso oil company warn drivers that tuning into rock music on your car radio is bad for...
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This is the week that was in matters musical …1955, Ted McCarty of Gibson is given patent #2,714,326 by the U.S. Patent Office for his design for “Stringed Musical Instrument Of The Guitar Type And...
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All that Jazz
picks.The Cult Of Jazz III.I’ve used Dunlop Jazz III picks – in various forms – the most of any picks I’ve tried over the years.One of the first things I did after picking up my first leccy guitar was...
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R.I.P. Alvin Lee.While never reaching the heights of Zeppelin, Cream or Fleetwood Mac as a band and never being as revered as Page, Clapton, Green, Beck as a guitar player, Ten Years After and Alvin...
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whites?R.I.P. Johnny Winter, the whitest of white guys to play the blues, who has died aged 70.The cross-eyed, albino bluesman, with either Epiphone Wilshire or Gibson Firebird in hand, cut a...
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Fleetwood Mac have been through a quite a few guitarists over the years, most have left under some sort of strange cloud. Danny Kirwan was no different.Not much is known of his early years, other than...
View ArticleRIP Otis Rush
one of the last.Sad news that blues legend Otis Rush has passed away, aged 83, over the weekend.Posted some time back, hell looking it’s over a decade ago, that along with the Three Kings – Albert,...
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