August 31, 2008 – 3:18 pm
Howard “Buzz” Feiten ( “feet’n”) is a American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and session musician. He is best known as a lead and rhythm electric guitarist, and has been in hot demand for sessions, concert tours, albums and CDs since the late 1960s. Industry veterans and pop musicologists alike consider him to have some of the best chops ever. Buzz is [...]
August 29, 2008 – 11:14 am
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
THOMAS EDISON
What a truth! It makes you wonder how many times we have given up on a project or hobby just before a break through. A lot of people, particularly novice guitar for beginner players [...]
August 27, 2008 – 10:29 am
About 3 months ago our jam session group had to disband. What a drag. So a good time we had and the interaction with other players was a great learning tool and fun, fun, fun. Last night we started to jam again.
We met indirectly through a quirk of fate. I’m not embarrassed to say [...]
August 25, 2008 – 9:40 am
When I came across this story in the archives section of The Washington Post the other day, I knew it need to be shared with all of the Stevie Ray Vaughan Addicts. Yes, I noticed it when I found the print story on “The Last Guitar “ posted last week. It details Stevie Ray and [...]
August 22, 2008 – 10:13 am
My Mother sent this story to me. I had an email chat with the author in order to obtain permission to re-print this article. He told me the article belonged to the Washington Post Magazine, and so I acquired permission there. The article was called Guitar Hero, but the author told me he had titled [...]
August 21, 2008 – 10:20 am
Apparently my famous birthday crystal ball was out of order yesterday. I missed Robert plant’s birthday on Sept. 20th.
Robert Anthony Plant born on August 20, 1948, West Bromwich, England. He is a perhaps one of the most noticeable voices in rock and roll, or for that matter, he simply has one of the greatest voices [...]
August 21, 2008 – 8:41 am
Update on our hurricane Fay survival. We survived and the damage was not to much. We had record rains and lots of flooding in the area. Our house is on a really high acre lot with lots of woods. The woods shield us from the wind and the high ground of our lot keeps us [...]
August 20, 2008 – 10:10 am
To compose a definition of what “guitar for beginners” means presents a challenge. The term guitar for beginners can be assumed to mean, the way of learning to play the guitar, which is not at all age specific or talent related. This article tries to cover young people and mature people who have little [...]
August 18, 2008 – 11:28 am
We live in Florida and simply put, after going through the hurricanes Francais and Jean in 2004, we will never take a hurricane lightly again. Once you have been through a hurricane that leaves your town wrecked, I mean like what you see in the newspapers. Roofs ripped off houses, hence, “blue roofs (tarps)”, [...]
August 15, 2008 – 10:39 am
Air Guitar has been played by non guitar players for as long as electric guitars have been considered the ultimate instrument of expression for rock music through acting, as in, an actor, and not really being a guitar player. Like the guitar players we love and consider our idols. But what was previously a hobby [...]