Archive for September, 2007

I just came back from Dominic Troiano’s house – his old one that is09.30.07

I had tried in vain to locate exactly which house the Legendary Canadian guitarist, Dominic Troiano, lived in ever since my neighbour’s son had told me. I kept asking him if he could remember and he kept saying that he’ll someday soon he’ll go around there to try and jog his memory. I’m still waiting [...]



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Guitar side ports09.28.07

The one thing that I see in the evolution of the acoustic guitar today is its link with the past from Canada’s own, Glenn Gould. He used a unique approach while playing in his later years, around 1983, when he took away part of the piano body to let the sound come out of the [...]



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Mr. James Morrison is Dead09.24.07

I was just reading an interesting article in our Maclean’s Magazine today called “Jim’s Fireman“. It was in the Aug. 13th/07 edition. It talks about the fire chief who arrived at 17 rue Beautreillis in the Marais district of Paris on July 3rd, 1971, who pronounced “Mr. James Morrison Dead”. Now that’s just not your [...]



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