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The Cole Porter Movie called De-Lovely06.10.09

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 [...]



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Glastonbury Festival06.04.09

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 [...]



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Was Jimi Hendrix murdered my his manager?06.01.09

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 [...]



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Buffalo Auditorium’s last stand05.30.09

The Buffalo Auditorium was just a beautiful building. They are demolishing it and making it into a parking lot! As in Joni Mitchel’s song, They paved paradise and put up a parking lot. The pictures says it all.
Some many unforgettable events were held there. I know you just have to ask Chris Noto about it [...]



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China Girl from Anna Ternheim05.23.09

I was watching Without a Trace the other night with my wife and during the show a great version of China Girl from David Bowie came on that. It was a interpretation that we both had never heard of before. Wanting to now more about this adaptation of the original song, my wife found [...]



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    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.