A little while ago, I posted my Top Ten Gee-tar solos of all time. But you didn’t really think I had only ten, did you? Of course, you didn’t. I also did a post once on What I Listen For in a Guitar Solo. Put … Continue reading My Top Ten Guitar Solos of All Time – Part Deux
From a Newsweek profile on Prince in 2004 (during a pre-show soundcheck): “The 5-foot-2 singer adjusts the long poet sleeves of his with blouse, strokes his goatee, fidgets with his diamond-encrusted pendant and taps his platform heel on the concrete of this sports arena in … Continue reading A Six-Pack of Prince
Yes, yes, children. It is time for that most anticipated and yet largely unloved thing – the “favorite guitarist” list. Now before you dive in and say, “How the fuck could you leave Alex Lifeson (or Eddie Van Halen, Dimebag Darrell, Yngvie Malmsteen, etc.) off … Continue reading My Top Twenty Guitarists of All Time (plus one)
WordPress advises me that this is my 500th post. Thanks to all who visited this blog in 2018 and especially to those who commented frequently. Here’s to a great 2019. His shit was the most exciting music I was hearing in 1982. – Miles Davis … Continue reading Happy New Year 2019
Senior service Junior dissatisfaction Though it may be second hand It’s by no means second rate —“Senior Service,” Elvis Costello A short while back, I posted a list of my Top 25 Favorite Singers. As noted there, that was a list of singers from the … Continue reading My Favorite Singers – Part Deux
UPDATE: Since my original post on 4/22/2016, Prince’s estate has gone around desperately trying to remove any trace of Prince from the Internet. And I’ve had to go back and remove several songs that both and I commenters posted. If one more comes down, I … Continue reading Prince
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