However, one man did a great deal to make the electric guitar popular.His name was Les Paul.He was the most popular guitarist in the Nineteen-Fifties.Les Paul also helped invent several different devices used with electric guitars.The most famous of these was a guitar that had a solid wood...
The newspapers were full of rumours that John Lennon and George Harrison would join Macca on stage , which resulted in over 200 folks outside looking for tickets and the touts were selling for big money...John and George did not show. This would be the last ever Wings show. It was my ...
I mean, samplers hell, these folks don’t even use electric guitars. The thing is, while there is much fascinating and beautiful music to be made with samplers, for many people who adopt the instrument carelessly it becomes a crutch. When each button you press creates not just a note (...
There is a petition doing the rounds at the mo. “Save Bailgate Parking”. I signed it when there were only 12 other names down but now it is at nearly 500 which is good. At least me and nearly 500 others think so. The residents of the Bail who are trying to muscle in on conven...
Due to the realities of the Open Range, where the music developed, traditional instruments are of the hearty and portable type; guitars, fiddles, and occasionally harmonicas. Early Western Music had three tempos that were influenced by the cow-pony: walk, trot and lope. "Country and Western...
The hands of the Mariachi players strum their guitars. The forks of the diners flash from plate to mouth and back. Sommeliers reach discreetly forward to refill glasses. The waiters’ spoons dig up down up down in the great trifle on the world-famous dessert trolley. Gentlemen’s jaws chomp...
Buck Owens invented that sound, but he didn’t have to invent his story. Unlike the air-conditioned generation of country stars with their $300,000 tour buses--the older guys derisively call them “the hats”--Owens knew the life, and when he and his peers later came to write songs ...