Over on Amazon.com there’s a 20 minute or so interview with Don Felder. This is one of the most interesting bits with him that I’ve ever heard.
Entries from August 2008
August 30, 2008
Robert Conti on eight-string guitar
Imagine the tension on that guitar neck; maybe the truss bar is made of titanium. On electric guitars these extra strings are bass, e.g., F# B (followed by E A d g b e). Some accoustic eight-string guitars I believe have at least one extra treble. In the piece above as [...]
August 28, 2008
Finally, Guitar Hero for Christians
Only this one’s called Guitar Praise… Solid Rock. Here’s a link to it on boing boing. And here’s the order page. I wonder if the Pope has one of these?
August 21, 2008
Toots Thielemans
Toots Thielemans
I first heard guitarist/harmonicaist Toots Thielmans on a vinyl album I came acorss in a LP store in Quebec, Canada, when I visited there a few years ago. It was from when he was playing in the George Shearing quintet. Toots is probably best know for his 1961 jazz masterpiece Bluesette (played on harmonica; [...]
August 10, 2008
More neat guitars
Check out this Zebrawood bass guitar, one of the most beautiful crafted instruments I’ve seen, though the “horns” seem pretty dangerous. Yes, this bass guitar design clearly qualifies as really super neato.
August 10, 2008
The pink ukulele
“…Last summer she was living in Hell’s Kitchen, working as a finance manager for a nonprofit arts company and having little success with her forays into stand-up comedy. Then her boyfriend bought himself a natural wood ukulele. She started strumming it, and found it easy to play with little training.” Continue reading article, “Those Four [...]
August 3, 2008
“Classical Gutiar Magazine”
I love this musical opening for Classical Guitar Magazine. At the bottom of the page click on here for the advertising rates link.
