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Top Dawg: Aynsley Lister

Posted in Guitars, Music, guitarists on January 31, 2008 | 4 Comments »

If you’ve watched shows and/or videos of the birth of rock and roll, you’ll know that the pundits say it was the Brits who embraced the blues, then later morphed it into what we now know as Rock and Roll, invading the US with the fresh sound of The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, The Who, The [...]

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Inspiring Words

Posted in Music, musicians, songs, songwriting on January 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I was over at igblog reading about Lindsey Buckingham in Ig’s article, “Lindsey Buckingham, guitar hero? « IG BLOG (life-music-guitar)” and something that Lindsey said in the accompanying video really struck a note with me (paraphrased): “Most song writers will say that song writing isn’t something that they make happen. It’s something that happens to [...]

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Top Dawg: Sungha Jung

Posted in guitar, guitarists on January 29, 2008 | 15 Comments »

I’ll be the first to admit I didn’t discover this kid. I stumbled upon him via GuitarFlame’s blog. I was so impressed that an 11 year old kid had chops this good that I had to list him here as a Top Dawg. You have to see it to believe it! This kid is absolutely [...]

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New Song: Gathered As One Body

Posted in GarageBand, Worship Music, recording, songs on January 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »

I wrote this song about three years ago, and finally got around to doing a recording of it that I liked. My original recording was only a piano and an acoustic guitar, but I always wanted to do more with it, and also arrange it a bit differently than I originally wrote it, which was [...]

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Hidden Gem: My Epiphone 58 Korina Explorer

Posted in gear, gear reviews, guitar, guitar gear on January 26, 2008 | 7 Comments »

This past week, I was paging through an old issue of Guitar Player mag, and noticed a picture of Nancy Wilson [who wouldn't notice that absolutely beautiful angel of rock] playing an Epiphone Les Paul in an Epiphone ad. Epiphone is a brand that guitarists know, and is considered to be the “bargain” line of [...]

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The Dawg Performs

Posted in Guitars, guitar, guitarists, performing on January 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »

I mentioned in a previous post that I played for an audience of 750+ folks. What a rush! Anyway, there was a great photographer flitting about the place, and he happened to get some shots of the The Dawg playing, so I thought I’d share them to put a face to the name. Based upon [...]

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Awesome Experience!

Posted in guitar, performing, playing live on January 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »

On Monday night, I performed solo in front of 700+ people; just me and my guitar. It was probably the largest crowd that I’ve ever played for as a solo act, and it was a totally cool experience. I did a lot of covers in my set ranging from James Taylor to the Beatles – [...]

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Song: Come to the Water

Posted in GarageBand, Music, Worship Music, musicians, songs on January 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »

This is a cover of John Foley’s original song, “Come to the Water.” My version is in a folk-punk style ala Elliot Smith or Death Cab. http://www.icompositions.com/music/song.php?sid=81505.

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Top Dawg: Noah Needleman

Posted in guitar, guitarists on January 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Here’s a guy who has absolutely excellent acoustic guitar technique, plus has a GREAT voice. The combination is very pleasing to the ear. The guy’s not flashy, but it’s clear that he has a real command of his instrument, and that’s something that The Dawg looks for in a guitarist, so I wanted to recognize [...]

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Review: More on the DigiTech Vocalist Live 4

Posted in gear, gear reviews, guitar gear, guitarists on January 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »

I already wrote a quick review on this cool little box, but I thought I’d provide an update on the DigiTech Vocalist Live 4. Wow! What a tool! I’ve been playing around with it since I got it, and let me tell you, what it does is nothing short of amazing. Throw pretty much any [...]

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