Category Archives: Guitar Articles

Jimi Hendrix ‘murdered by his manager’….

JIMI HENDRIX’S former roadie claims the guitar legend was murdered by his own manager – as part of a life insurance swindle.
James ‘Tappy’ Wright says Hendrix’s manager Michael Jeffery confessed the crime to him a year later, during a drunken session at the roadie’s house.
According to Wright – whose revelations feature in his [...]

Jimi Hendrix Experience and Cream with Eric Clapton

When it started to happen, the people in England went nuts and of course this new vibe traveled to America very fast and caught fire too. It was in the mid ’60’s when big name guitarists Eric Clapton, and the band Cream, and Jimi Hendrix (the only American) and his The Jimi Hendrix Experience Band [...]

Old Folks Boogie…

“Old Folks Boogie”, written by Paul Barrere of Little Feat came to mind the other day at the rehab center my Dad is at. While he is still not a well man. We expect him to come home in a few weeks. Modern medicine is unbelievable.
The song itself is a funny yet an accurate [...]

Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan Present a Good Problem

How can a person say Jimi Hendrix or Stevie Ray Vaughan pose a problem? The problem is that I have a problem finding people to jam with. I could not help listening to and enjoying all sorts of rock and roll music. I enjoy the heck out of almost any rock music, it was what [...]

Is Your Guitar Neck 24 and 3/4 inches, 25 inches, 25 1/2 inches..

Long, Or an entirely different length?
I have a correction to make. The post: Choose the Guitar Neck Scale Length That Fits.. has what I call an important omission. There are more than 2 lengths of guitar necks.
When I wrote another post about: What Is Better, a 22 Fret or 24 Fret Guitar?, this was pointed [...]

“The Day The Music Died”

It has been almost 50 years (February 2, 1959) since a single-engine plane crashed into a snowy field in Iowa. When that plane crashed, it claimed the lives of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, J.P. “Big Bopper” Richardson and the pilot, Roger Peterson. Three of Rock and Roll’s most promising performers were gone. As Don McLean [...]

Obama May Have an Effect on The Music Scene..

What an exciting election season we just finished! A new and younger era is being ushered in! No matter which side of the political fence you were on, we have to agree that it is exciting to see the entire world celebrating the change with us. The big question for us: What could all this [...]

A Muscle Memory Review for Guitar Players

Note: Support Article
Muscle memory can best be described as a type of movement with which the muscles become familiar over time. For instance, newborns don’t have muscle memory for activities like crawling, scooting or walking. Although almost every thing we do requires a certain amount of muscle memory.
The only way for the muscles to [...]

What is Contractile Tissue to a Guitar Player?

A technical post to support the article A Muscle Memory Review for Guitar Players. It took forever to read, study and understand and then put it in terms I hope you understand.

Contractile tissue is nothing more than the dominant tissue used in muscles. It is so called because the tissue is able to contract, either [...]

Greatness… What Does It Really Take?

The top guitar players or performers in any field for that matter, think differently when everything is on the line. The great performers focus on what they are doing at the time and absolutely nothing else, they let it go and don’t think or care about the results at the moment.
This type of mindset allows [...]