After you’ve heard the lyrics, listen and identify the sounds of the instruments. If you can recognize the chords and instruments, you will be able to enjoy the music more easily.Do not go in to Country Music thinking you will hate it. Instead, be open-minded and ready to learn new ...
Strickland and bassist Kevin Scruggs add a much needed depth and closure to the violent interplay between guitar and drums. Scruggs’s bass lines are never overstated, but the little drops, breakdowns, and flourishes definitely add that last bit of punch to the lower-end of the music, like a...
Again, it was me going back to my roots really.John Frusciantehas always been one of if not my biggest inspiration on guitar so I really tried to work on writing melodies in a similar way. I’d say you can hear this the most on the title track which is probably my favourite on the...
There are some lovely snatches of tape delay shrouding the guitarist’s chords on the grandWhen Growing Was Simple, but in keeping with this album’s flighty tendencies, no sooner have we begun to enjoy the crackly wobble of the repeats than they’re gone, signalling the song and album’s...
Recorded shortly before Charley Patton’s death,“Mind Reader Blues”is a song he performed with his common-law wife, Bertha Lee. In her magnificent voice, Lee scolds Patton for his womanizing even as he lovingly accompanies her on guitar. The lyrics are auto-biographical: “I remember a day...
Pink Floyd (1994):Populated by long keyboard moments -- with echoing, sustained guitar chords and segmented song-cycles effortlessly flowing into one another -- ‘The Division Bell’ plays like a long, slow exhale after the Roger Waters-era novelization of Floyd on albums like ‘The Wall’ an...
“Big Empty” showcase the band’s radically improved songwriting and musicianship, overflowing with indelible hooks, evocative lyrics and shimmering, complex guitar chords. Dean DeLeo rips blazing solos on the lean rockers “Meatplow” and “Unglued,” while Scott Weiland plumbs the depths of his...
Pink Floyd (1994):Populated by long keyboard moments -- with echoing, sustained guitar chords and segmented song-cycles effortlessly flowing into one another -- ‘The Division Bell’ plays like a long, slow exhale after the Roger Waters-era novelization of Floyd on albums like ‘The Wall’ an...
Director Oliver Murray toldRolling Stoneit had taken a while to locate Bill Baker, who made the recording using a large reel-to-reel tape machine he’d sneaked into the club. The documentary team were able to clean up the original audio and push Hendrix’s guitar to the front. “It’s...
Director Oliver Murray toldRolling Stoneit had taken a while to locate Bill Baker, who made the recording using a large reel-to-reel tape machine he’d sneaked into the club. The documentary team were able to clean up the original audio and push Hendrix’s guitar to the front. “It’s...