General Information about Glenn Gould11.08.07

A little bit of Glenn Gould trivia for all of those interested.

(1) Glenn Gould’s mother played the organ at St. Andrew’s Church, 73 Simcoe Street, Toronto. Central Presbyterian church in Toronto
(2) His childhood home was32 Southwood Dr
(3) His summer home in Uptergrove Ont., near lake Simcoe/Orillia.
(4) Buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, [...]



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The Dream Theatre Rock experience11.01.07

I first heard of this band by my buddy Tony when we were standing next to the speakers at the Saga concert that I was at recently.

He had told me that his son that has his own band, loves this type of Rock. He quickly described it as a hybrid of RUSH, Saga, Yes [...]



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Trying out Thumb picks10.28.07

While looking for thumb picks to try and spice up my picking style, I came across the regular/traditional plastic ones and the newer look and feel plastic and metal ones.

I know that you’ve all seen the plastic thumb picks before and they all seem to have the same feel to them. When you put them [...]



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The Guitarist10.21.07

Mark Goffeney is definitely in the running for my vote for the most unique guitarists to have come around in quite some time.

I saw this somewhere and when I saw it I knew that I had to post about it.
I mean have you ever tried this feat, no pun intended! It is hard but [...]



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Saga, 30th Anniversary Tour10.10.07

I was made aware of the Saga concert on the morning of the show.
Tony, God bless that guy, called me on Saturday morning and asked if we were going to see them that night. I had told him that I knew nothing of the show and hung up to get some tickets on-line.

My wife [...]



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