Well, awesome. After I posted a few days back suggesting there should be a National or Global Day of Music, Kristie Addison from Transit of Venus posted a link to the website of the International Music Council (a body I’d certainly never heard of before) – specifically a page describing an International Music Day...
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Oh. Baby. Yeah. I’m here today to tell you: there is nothing – nothing – like a custom guitar. No way will a production instrument compare. To illustrate, I will describe the guitar I have just collected.
This is truly a fantastic instrument; I can hardly keep my hands off it. It plays like a...
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As I type this I’m sitting on a train going through the countryside. It’s my usual train, and my usual trip to work. Nothing different about it – except the iPod strted playing ‘Field Trip’ by Kik Tracee. I suddenly noticed as I looked out the window that it felt totally different from most...
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Falling Over
I’ve been thinking lately about what I can and can’t play on the guitar, and about the frequency with which I make mistakes when playing. I’ve thought about why that is, after over quarter a century of playing the damn instrument. I ended up thinking about my comfort zone.
In a couple of the...
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Music of the World
No, not “World Music” – whatever that is; it’s always seemed to me to represent some sort of cash-in on the odd cycles the West seems to go through of fascination with this or that non-Anglo-Saxon culture.
What I mean is the music that is all around us, all the...
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