Take your pseudo punk, hip hop, pop rock, techno junk...
... and shove it. This is How It’s Done. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Mark Knopfler with what is, in my opinion, his best song since Brothers in Arms.
Real music played on real instruments with real feeling. Does not get better than this. You can find his latest album, “Get Lucky”, on iTunes.
Now I Have an ND Filter...
Ho ho ho…
Now if only the weather would co-operate and give me some sunlight.
If I may, I would like to tell you of another musical legend...
By the name of Tommy Emmanuel. He is a mostly instrumental fingerstyle guitarist who plays songs from just about every genre you care to think of. I think this quote from shredding legend Steve Vai pretty well sums it up…
“Well Tommy Emmanuel is not the future of guitar playing because even in the future I don’t think people are going to be able to play like him. The first time I saw Tommy…
I Have Upgraded...
Recent good fortune has enabled me to do something I did not think I could do for a very long time – get a better camera. Gone (well not really, I am keeping it for some things) is the crappy 8 megapixel Panasonic Lumix DMC-LS80. I am now the proud owner of a 10.2 megapixel Sony ax200 DSLR with two lenses – one 18 – 70mm, the other 75 – 300mm!
I read a review for it where the review describe…
Lovers of Blues, Rock and Awesome Guitar Work, Lend Me Your Ears...
Ladies and gentlemen,
I would like to share with you a simple tribute to a musical legend you have probably never heard of. I am a huge music fan (I have five guitars, over 100 CDs and nearly 7000 MP3s). I like real music, sung and played by people who believe in what they are doing. Not the senseless noise of techno, the chauvinistic nonsense of (most) rap, or the prefabricated pop of the b…