Effectology volume 15
“Fanfare for the Uncommon Pedal”.Bill Ruppert is back with another in his excellent series of Effectology videos where he uses just a standard guitar and a few well chosen Electro-Harmonix effects...
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died 40 years ago today.September 18th 1970 in a basement bedroom at the Samarkand Hotel in Notting Hill Gate, London. He would now be 67, a pensioner, have his bus pass, just can’t picture it.You...
View ArticleYesterday and
Today.Yesterday Spurs played their second group game in the Europa League so Today all those viewing out there – I know you’re there I can see you – would be expecting some report on the game against...
View ArticleThat’s how it happens, livin’ life
by the drop.Texas drummer and songwriter Doyle Bramhall died on Sunday aged 62. A fixture in the Austin music scene, he wrote or co-wrote a number of tracks for Stevie Ray Vaughan, including “The House...
View ArticleR.I.P. Ronnie Montrose
sad day for rock and or roll.It was announced yesterday, March 3rd, that Ronnie Montrose had died after a five-year battle with prostate cancer, aged 64.The first Montrose album is one of my...
View ArticleThe Fastest Guitar In The West
R.I.P. Alvin Lee.While never reaching the heights of Zeppelin, Cream or Fleetwood Mac as a band and never being as revered as Page, Clapton, Green, Beck as a guitar player, Ten Years After and Alvin...
View ArticleR.I.P. Chuck Berry… Hail! Hail!… Rock and or
roll.Sad news that one the pioneers of rock and or roll, Chuck Berry, has passed away, though at 90 he had a good run.Numerous thought on who was the first rock ‘n’ roller, it was a term used before...
View ArticleAin’t that a shame
R.I.P Fats Domino.Sad news that another of the few remaining pioneers of rock and or roll Fats Domino has died aged 89.There’s not many of the originals left, what The Killer Jerry Lee Lewis and Little...
View ArticleR.I.P. Malcolm Young
the ultimate rhythm man.Sad news that co-founder and rhythm guitarist of AC/DC, Malcolm Young died at the weekend, aged 64, just three years after it was announced he was suffering from dementia.Some...
View ArticleR.I.P. Little Richard… the king and queen
of rock and or roll.Sad news that one of the few remaining original pioneers of rock and roll music, Little Richard, passed away, aged 87.Greg Renoff asked on Twitter Where would rock-n-roll be without...
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