An interesting advert for bass playing services...

This bass player has some interesting ideas about music keys...Here are Peter Cook and Dudley Moore parodying musical rules...there is also another sketch (only from radio source material I fear) where Dudley Moore is a Welsh piano teacher and Peter Co… more »

The SynthAxe

Listening to "Atavachron" by Allan Holdsworth today, I was reminded of the unique design and capabilities of the SynthAxe, a system (much more than an instrument) that for a while in the late 1980's threatened to rewrite the landscape of guitar playing a… more »

Once Upon A Time in My Past...and the present

The first LP I ever bought was "The Captain And Me" by The Doobie Brothers. This was the first of a number of LP purchase decisions that put me out in left field as far as most of my peers were concerned. At the time, hardly anybody in the UK had even… more »

Getting back to guitar playing...

At the start of this year, I made a decision to devote time to actually playing and practising guitar. My guitar playing time had been squeezed out of my life due to all sorts of other stuff going on. I have been working between 15 and 45 minutes a day… more »