Guitar Player: Chris does “Lenny” ala SRV…

August 26th, 2009 ·

Check out Chris Playing Stevie Ray Vaughan “Lenny”. This was from a comment I recieved recently on my “Lenny” guitar post. Sorry, the actual video HTML has been disabled, but the video is a must watch however you get to it. The link works. There is not much to say about it, just listen and have [...]

Article: Crosby, Stills & Nash Facts You May Not Know..

August 25th, 2009 ·

I was reading an article on Crosby, Stills and Nash in the local paper, they appeared in concert at The King Center in Melbourne, Florida on The 22nd of August. The article did not say anything new to me until I came to the end of the article. Here you go, a few interesting facts [...]

Guitar Player James Burton hopes to break world record..

August 22nd, 2009 ·

[/caption] Guitarist James Burton, known for his work with the Elvis Presley and Ricky Nelson bands, plans to celebrate his 70th birthday Friday with a party, followed by an attempt Saturday to break a world record for mass guitar ensemble. The Guinness Book of World Records lists the world’s largest [...]

Glenn Donnellan is not a guitar player, but he hit a Big home run anyway…

August 15th, 2009 ·

[/caption] Perhaps this was mostly a local news item, I don’t know for sure, we only get TV during the Football season so I can watch the Washington Redskins. I heard about this on NPR a few days ago, so I went to YouTube to check it out, I [...]

Les Paul, Guitar Player, Inventor, World Changer Dead at 93…

August 14th, 2009 ·

[/caption] Les Paul, 94, a Grammy Award-winning world class guitar player and inventor of the solid-body electric guitar who helped bring this instrument to the forefront of jazz and rock-and-roll performance, died Aug. 13 at a hospital in White Plains, N.Y. He had pneumonia. We were lucky that a guy like Les [...]

Guitar Player: Kurt Cobain. Died April 5th, 1994

August 10th, 2009 ·

[/caption] Another guitar player and musician who died at age 27 was Kurt Cobain. It seems like a lot of great guitar players who were not Jimi Hendrix or Robert Johnson and musicians died at age 27. I don’t think this was due to a visit to the crossroads, this is [...]

Guitar Players and Dead Musicians: The Curse of 27

August 4th, 2009 ·

A few months ago, my wife and I were talking to Ben Prestage, during a break between one of his mega one and a half hour sets (normal length for Ben). Ben is a local guitar player, banjo player, cigar box guitar player and violin player, and his own drummer, a one man band, highly [...]