Cocktails and Rock tales
In her new book Author Jane Rocca matches 200 alcoholic concoctions with their perfect rock soundtracks. Here are a few of them that I personally recommend. Classic…
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English Space Rock
Back in the late seventies, prior to the arrival of PUNK ROCK, with its garland of spit, safety pins, anarchy, rebellion and anti-authoritarian posturing, Steve Hill…
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Ben Edwards psychobilly part III
BOSS CHRIST. So I had never seen ‘the Boss’ before and had only heard crazy and great things about him so I was anxious with anticipation. I could feel my chest tigh…
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How to select Guitar effects
Guitar effects. What a selection these days. You don’t need a burning stratocaster or the Jimi Hendrix account at New York’s Legendary Manny’s guitar store to find y…
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Ben Edwards Psychobilly Part II
So here we go! It’s Tuesday morning here in the Rock Star office and I am STILL struggling for breath and wobbly on my feet after a crazy show I attended on the week…
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Ben Edwards Psychobilly Part I
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 writ…
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Supercharged Monday Morning Ontological Blues
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 W…
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Best Guitar Leads or Solos
Joe from Pasadena has asked us to recommend ten tasty guitar lead tracks. After a quick shout out on twitter the general consensus is that these are pretty sweet exa…
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Fat Les Paul Tone
Jamie from the US has asked us how to get a fat tone from his Les Paul. Well, tone is a particularly personal matter but also comes in as many flavours as the imagin…
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Digital guitars
Mark McKenzie is an awesome guitarist, highly fluid, fluent and versatile. He’s also a great teacher. Mark has just finished filming the video for the Sultans of Swi…
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Guitars on Fire – Ring the Alarm
No, I’m not talking about Dizzee Rascal, Fu-Snchickens or Tenor Saw. Every now and then we have a fire drill. I’ll be damned if I’m going to leave my favourite Strat…
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