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Menial Music
I love menial tasks and manual labor.
These kinds of things require no effort. How much do you have to think to mow the grass? You don’t. I get the vast majority of my thinking done while mowing. One of the best days of my rapidly-fading summer involved going over to a [...]
Canadian Guitar Festival Pictures on Erik Mongrain’s Site!
A few of my pictures of Erik Mongrain and Michael Manring are being featured on Erik’s website gallery. His manager, Josee, let me in on the surprise that Manring would be playing with Erik, which gave me time to set up some shots. It was tremendously difficult to get clear photos due to [...]
New Videos and Pictures Online
In June I went to Don Ross’s Cannington Guitar Weekend. At around 2-3 am Saturday night, a group of us were sitting in the kitchen chatting instead of doing less important things like sleep. Mike pulled out his video camera and a few of us had a go at recording some tunes. [...]
More Additions
I picked up a Vox AC4TV to go with my new telecaster. It’s a little 4 watt tube(!) amp with a variable switch that can take it down to either 1 or 1/4 watts. Volume, tone, watt switch, on/off switch.
Doesn’t get much simpler than that.
Welcome to the Family
The Squier Telecaster that beat out American Fenders.
No kidding, we did a shootout at Guitar Center and this thing ($170) was more comfortable than the $1200 models, and sounded just as good to my ears. I’m rather picky about the feel of the guitars I play. I would have bought it on the [...]
