Wallace Dietz initially picked up the guitar in his college dormitory, tracing chords from a Neil Young playbook. Since those formative days, Dietz has been at the forefront of his indie guitar pop ensemble, drawing inspiration from the likes of Feelies. Recently, the Silent Boys inked a deal ...
being only seven-years-old, so I got to play it most of the time. I bought the proverbial Bert Weedon Teach Yourself Guitar book and practised my chords for hours. I eventually mastered enough to play three chord
I won’t, but it has to be said that ‘Hurt Feelings’ rhyming ‘I feel like a prize asshole / No one even mentions my casserole’ makes me laugh out loud every time I hear it*. Again though the point is that the music, hilarious as it is, stands on its’ own merit as it ...
and had been moved to a completely dilapidated, draughty Victorian building, freezing cold in the winter, with awful outside toilets, in one of the roughest areas of Bury. Quite often, bits of the ceiling would fall down and land at...
‘War’ is kind of amazing and sad. I was writing about the war with Russia when I was 25 and its happening again at age 63. This time however, I’m not wondering which side I’m on, although I know, as on all issues, intelligent people disagree. ...
old cheap guitar dad played and he wrote down basic chords. But the guitar was difficult to play and I couldn’t press the strings down. One day he bought a 1949 Gibson steel laptop guitar. I still have it. I was amazed that it was played with a steel bar gliding over the...