Alright then, what can you expect me to write about? I am a lover of all guitars, gadgets, bits and bobs so you can expect me to regurgitate some conceptual ideas about what floats my boat with ‘guitar stuff’. You can also expect me to regularly offer some insightful and deep, metaphysical ways to approach your learning, playing, writing and jamming on your guitar (or ANY instrument for that matter)… so keep your eyes peeled. I`ll be posting again tomorrow about some inspiring and unique live shows I saw at the weekend so subscribe to the RSS feed and you`ll be the first to find out about all the crazy music madness going on down here and what`s really cookin` at Rock Star.
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Well, I have finally managed to find a spare 10 minutes in my day to make my first blog post. I am SO sorry to all of the readers that have made requests that I write…. But here I am! There’s really no need for me to introduce myself being the ‘face’ of the popular Jamorama product, so I would instead like to welcome everyone to our Rock Star Recipes ‘blog-train’, so all aboard this mad locomotive of music, energy, thoughts and love.
Alright then, what can you expect me to write about? I am a lover of all guitars, gadgets, bits and bobs so you can expect me to regurgitate some conceptual ideas about what floats my boat with ‘guitar stuff’. You can also expect me to regularly offer some insightful and deep, metaphysical ways to approach your learning, playing, writing and jamming on your guitar (or ANY instrument for that matter)… so keep your eyes peeled. I`ll be posting again tomorrow about some inspiring and unique live shows I saw at the weekend so subscribe to the RSS feed and you`ll be the first to find out about all the crazy music madness going on down here and what`s really cookin` at Rock Star.
Alright then, what can you expect me to write about? I am a lover of all guitars, gadgets, bits and bobs so you can expect me to regurgitate some conceptual ideas about what floats my boat with ‘guitar stuff’. You can also expect me to regularly offer some insightful and deep, metaphysical ways to approach your learning, playing, writing and jamming on your guitar (or ANY instrument for that matter)… so keep your eyes peeled. I`ll be posting again tomorrow about some inspiring and unique live shows I saw at the weekend so subscribe to the RSS feed and you`ll be the first to find out about all the crazy music madness going on down here and what`s really cookin` at Rock Star.
Monday morning blues.
Wow, well I woke up this morning and I felt great because the only blues we`ve got in our office is usually something by Freddie King, Howlin Wolf, Eric Clapton or Mississippi John Hurt.
Pretty good for a Monday morning and we`ve finally opened a new bag of coffee. No more stale, granular, loathesome, weird, sunfried, spoonful – back to flavor.
Besides the gonzo debates regarding Russel`s teapot or invisible pink unicorn and other various ontological questions things are relatively normal. Perhaps. But I just keep asking myself “Can the blue men sing the whites?”
Another week surrounded by otters, exploding eggs and talent.
It`s been a critical week for “strategy”, design, “branding” and leveraging this or monetizing that…except we rarely resort to using rhetoric where frenetic gesticulations, nonsense, riddles and non sequiturs will do.
We`re all completely fizzed out from crazy concept meetings, mad games of all night table football (le babyfoot), hair metal poodles, and mark McKenzie`s hyper guitar licks. Plus trying to keep up design and content for this blog. Not only that it`s Friday the Thirteenth.
Lock us up.
One of the great things happening here at Rock Star Recipes for the last few days has been posed by two simple rhetorical questions that came up in a recent, highly animated conversation we had whilst rocking out in the kitchen to to the sounds of the exploding eggs in a microwaved ploughman`s lunch:
Are we corporate?
Are we even a business?
If you arent asking these sort of questions where you are then maybe its time to leave.
No, Im not talking about Dizzee Rascal, Fu-Snchickens or Tenor Saw. Every now and then we have a fire drill. I`ll be damned if Im going to leave my favourite Stratocaster Plus in a burning building: it`s been to Washington State, New York City, France, California, the U.K. and all around Aotearoa. Cremation is not on the cards. The fire officer is not impressed and obviously not a Hendrix fan. I`ll drink the lighter fluid before I toast my fretboard.
Hey here`s Ben if you`d like to get into dat REGGAE STRUM ting mon!
Mark McKenzie one of our Song Pond tutors has just rolled in fresh from a serious work out by the looks of things. I don`t know if that`s anything to do with his guitar prowess and fretboard lucidity, but maybe. After all, Freddie King worked days in a steel mill. Mark is definitely an interesting character and when it comes to playing guitar he seriously cooks up a storm.
Mark has just run through the solo and lead parts of Mark Knopfler and Dire Straits` awesome, epic country-blues-rock, the Sultans Of Swing sitting here in the office on an acoustic guitar with both a pick and fingerstyle. Impressive stuff indeed.
So look out for The Sultans of Swing on Song Pond real soon. And don`t forget where country style licks from Chet Atkins through to Albert Lee can take you – the Sultans of Swing is evidence of that.
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