Rock and Roll is an exciting and highly admired genre of popular music which mainly appeals to the young generation….but not exclusively. This extremely popular form of music has attained great recognition and adulation amongst the music lovers for several decades. The most admirable aspect of this genre is its variety and unique style. This [...]
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7 Jun
>Musical Options
> The only ‘constant’ in the world is change. This is pretty hard to dispute and why anyone would bother is beyond my realm of interest. I am finding, however, that people are increasingly bemoaning commercial music as all sounding the same. To an ever-increasing extent they have a valid point and it has been [...]
26 May
More Than Music: How To Play Guitar For Profit
More Than Music: How To Play Guitar For Profit.
18 Nov
>First Things First
> Image by nzgabriel via Flickr For the purpose of this discussion I shall be drawing on my own personal and professional experience using a Boss BR-8 recording unit. Rock music is my genre’ but the Boss BR-8 is adaptable for all genres of music. The unit is an 8-track digital recorder aimed primarilay [...]
9 Nov
>The Mystery Tramp
> After quitting the band I spent a few weeks re-working my original material. Because I had been playing them in every way, shape and form for years I initially found the most difficult thing to do was to decide what versions to do. Again, because my name proceeded me I had no problem picking [...]
25 Oct
>Accidentally Like A Martyr
>For the purposes of this entry in which I shall be discussing the recording process measured against the end result, I’ll be talking of my own recording escapades over the last two or so At the risk of sounding patronising, which I’m not (I save that for ‘real life’), most people who listen to music [...]
25 Oct
The Phone Don’t Ring….
At the risk of sounding patronising, which I’m not (I save that for ‘real life’), most people who listen to music and have no connection with musicians don’t give any thought as to how a song actually comes to fruition. I certainly didn’t until my early teens. I am speaking mainly of my own recording [...]
18 Oct
>Once Upon A Time….
> This is a brief glimpse into how I came to be where I am musically. It’s as close to ‘me’ as you’ll get on the internet. I was born in Kilmarnock, Scotland, home of Johnnie Walker Whiskey and raised in the town of Cumnock, approximately 45km south of Glasgow. As a kid I was [...]
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