So I hope that everyone out there is having a great start to their summer!
As you may all ready have known, I have not been posting that much on this site. Well to tell you the truth, I’ve been working in the backyard gardening! Yes gardening! And let’s not forget the odd family adventure!
My wife and I have both been blessed with being bit by the gardening bug. We’ve had around 56 roses and about 1100 plants in there and loving every minute of it. We tend to be of the extreme variety.
Ever since I was quite young, I’ve had my fingers in the soil. It started off cutting the grass, de-weeding the flower beds and a bit of planting. Truth be told, I’m not that great at planting the greenery, my wife is strictly in charge of that area!
She is the one who does all the research into it and I must say that I do catch on evently to her technique. There is so much to learn on gardening forums about this hobby that even to this day, it really blows my mind!
As for the family thing, I’ve been in Brantford more lately (sorry for not calling ya Dom, I will get around to it next time I’m there!) the biggest thing I had to do was putting up this massive fence at my parents.
Figuring out where exactly to start digging post holes, cementing them (I hope that they’re all relatively straight), placing the horizontal 2 x 4’s, making sure all is level … It was a hectic couple of days in the sun and rain, but it was all worth it. The multiple hangover days I could have done without.
So hopefully I get back to the task at hand that is to start to entertain you all with my less the grammatically correct writing/English!
Cole Porter was a genius composer. I’ve played some of his tunes as a kid and as I have grown as a musician, I now have a better feel for how great this man really was.
At work the other day, I got into a conversation with a patient. We were talking about different styles of playing guitar and it gravitated to Cole Porter. He brought up this movie called De-Lovely and said that it was a must to see.
Since then I’ve been searching our TV for it to no avail. I’ve also tried calling up some video stores to see if they have it in their collection, no luck there either.
My question to all of you out there is, has anyone seen it? Is it really worth buying it?
The trials and tribulations of either a reformed smoker or a work in progress one! I know I can relate to this guy because quitting smoking is probably the hardest thing you could do!
The Glastonbury Festival is something I’ve never heard of before. This sounds like one of the best musical weekends one could ever imagine!
It started in 1970 and hasn’t looked back. In 1971 the lineup was Hawkwind, Traffic, Melanie, David Bowie, Joan Baez and Fairport Convention. Attendance: estimated at 12,000. Price: free. At the 1982 show the acts were Van Morrison, Judie Tzuke, Jackson Browne, Roy Harper, Richie Havens. Attendance: 25,000. Tickets: £8. Then in 1985 Echo & The Bunnymen, Aswad, Joe Cocker, Style Council and The Boomtown Rats. Attendance was 40,000,Tickets: £16. Now that’s not a bad line up!
They even made a documentary called Glastonbury Fayre (1972). Watching the trailer looks like it was going to be one of those weekends, don’t ya know, nudge, nudge, wink, wink?! The band Fairport Convention looked great. These guys are still around believe it or not.
Has any of my readers here been to this festival? I’d love to know if it’s well worth the price to get there?!
We all seem to, in today’s modern society, gravitate to the tabloid stories. I for one, try my best to ignore this form of journalism, but it does make one wonder about this particular story. I realize I’m adding to it’s buzz on-line, but this story caused me to react to this type hype that I am referring to above.
Was Jimi Hendrix murdered my his manager? Well I’m not sure because I wasn’t there when it happened.
James “Tappy” Wright a roadie for Jimi, claims that Michael Jeffrey, Jimi’s former manager “drunkenly confessed to killing” Hendrix. He reportedly says that he killed him “by stuffing pills into his mouth and washing them down with several bottles of red wine.”
The latest information is from a new book called Rock Roadie. Why did he wait so long to bring this to anybodies attention?
It’s definitely plausible: Michael Jeffrey “has always been a controversial figure,” and he’s “been accused by members of the Animals and Jimi Hendrix’s family of cheating them of earnings.”
If this is true, should there be a formal investigation to this tragedy? Should we just leave it along? Hasn’t the Hendrix family suffered enough? Which conspiracy formula do you subscribe to?
So my question to you, my great readership is, do we really care about this form of newz/entertainment if you can actually call it that?
I’ve written this blog to share my enjoyment of music, the guitar and other instruments and I hope that I can offer information that might be useful to others who are interested in playing the guitar.
