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USB Guitars Laptop Rock updated

Back in `81 Alvin Lee of the rock band Ten Years After released a studio solo album called RX5 featuring a gold robot playing an electric guitar in deep space. At th…

Doc Watson Deep River Blues

To continue with the fingerpicking theme of the last week’s posts here’s a great video of Doc Watson playing Deep River Blues in `91. If you enjoy fingerpicking and…

Bill Frisell – glacial effects

In a recent post featuring Adrian Legg’s keith tuner fingerpicking genius I slyly and quietly suggested that Bill Frisell was definitely another idiosyncratic guitar…

Tesla Birdfish & Niwa

The tesla birdfish sounds like the the country cousin of God’s oddest mix up the Duck Billed Platypus. The egg-laying, venomous, duck-billed, beaver-tailed, otter-fo…

The Handle and Adrian Legg – Modern guitar

It may look a cross-pollination between the ideals of a swiss cheese master craftsman, a Dali soft watch and a carbon fibre pretzel but the XOX handle guitar tries t…

17th Century Schizoid Man II – updated

In the previous post I took a rather circuitous journey from the lute through to the Chapman stick – a lute-like modern fret based instrument that occupies a unique…

17th Century Schizoid Man I

Just in case you’re already finding the 6 strings of your guitar a little limiting – [or maybe that’s just your head? ] – I’d like to look forwards and backwards wit…

Nile Rodgers, Hip Hop, Electro

Aggregators, connectors , samplers, grooves, licks and threads! What does it all mean? It means that Nile Rodgers guitar playing launched HIP HOP into the New York U…

Girls Guitars

I really don’t want to learn to play the guitar, but I want to get girls. Can your program be tweaked so I skip the guitar part and go directly to getting girls? Get…

Sound like Clapton- updated

What I really wanted to focus upon today was the great offering of idiosyncratic guitars over at DiPinto’s Vintage Inventory, and boy have they got some sure-fire st…

Never Trust a Man with Egg on His Face -updated

We live in an increasingly hyperconnected yet somehow fragmented world but what makes it interesting are the AGGREGATORS that momentarily break the surface, the magn…

Blues Threads – Mojo Hand

…you’re stuck between a rock and a hard place ? …up to your middle at the crossroads trapped amid the gleam of a loamy moon? …or find yerself petitioned by the Baron…