Thoughts From Backstage

Moving on…. for now.

August 30th 2010

It is with some sadness and regret, but also with excitement and joy, that I write this post. For quite a few years I have been working on this site, watching its fortunes rise and fall. When I started this site, blogging was still fairly new, and I had grand designs. Sure, those initial plans [...]

The Digital Guitarist : Setting Up The Studio

April 27th 2010

Welcome, to what will be the first of an on going series of articles about setting up a digital studio from the basis of being a guitarist. THE OLD SETUP Now that I work “normal” hours again, I can schedule in time to work on my guitar playing, song writing and recording. Obviously I need [...]

Six Strings : A Guitar Documentary

January 27th 2010

Six Strings is a documentary currently in production from director James Player. James is trying to find guitarists from all over the world with stories to tell. Skill and technical proficiency, nor style are genre are necessarily important, it’s about the story of how the instrument you love has affected the guitarist’s life. In a [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-22

January 22nd 2010

I favorited a YouTube video — John Mayer: "Crossroads" Guitar Lesson (Teaser) http://youtu.be/dxQ3iCw9BAY?a # New blog post: NAMM 2010 Day 2 Highlights http://www.guitartoybox.com/2010-01-16/namm-2010-day-2-highlights/ # I subscribed to gearwire's channel on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/user/gearwire?feature=autoshare_twitter # I subscribed to audiofanzinetv's channel on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/user/audiofanzinetv?feature=autoshare_twitter # I favorited a YouTube video — JOE BONAMASSA PLAY "TAKIN' THE HIT" AT [...]

2009 Top 10 Albums

December 31st 2009

As I do every year, it’s time to give you my Top 10 albums. I have to say, this year again it was hard for me to find 10 stand out albums. As it is, I short listed 15, and the remaining five will be in the honourable mentions. Also keep in mind this s [...]

Top Guitar Twitter Users List – Updated

August 10th 2009

Lately I have become a huge fan of Twitter. At first I didn’t get it, but know I see how useful it is at getting quick messages and thoughts out to people. It’s also a great way to make new contacts, and that is something that is slowly happening for me. But where do you [...]

Site Update

July 1st 2009

Yep. Sites been pretty dead. And frankly, so have I. Here is a quick update from the last few months. As most know, I just moved about 200kms to a new home, new job, new life really. It was a massive move done very fast and highly stressful. However it has been worth it. My [...]

Why the relic fad should just die.

January 10th 2009

I am completely over this fascination with relic or road worn guitars. I don’t mind them as a tribute to an iconic guitar owned by a famous guitarist (for example the Rory Gallagher Strat), but as a marketing gimmick? Fender at NAMM is launching the new entry level Relic series titled Road Worn. Here is [...]

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