Frank Zappa and the Monkee’s03.21.11

Since I was a kid I was glued to the TV when this musical series called The Monkees were on. I was just introduced to the playing guitar in Miss Lord‘s class and I found the Monkees music was so catchy. I thought that the band had to be popular because it was constantly on [...]



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Centennial Stage construction at the CNE10.02.10

I was watching a news story a couple of months ago about vintage videos, both from private and official video collections, from some of the past CNE (Canadian National Exhibition) years. The people who run the CNE thought that they had something special here and they wanted to share it with the rest of the [...]



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Neat looking Rickenbacker Guitar lightshow!09.24.09

The Rickenbacker 331LS is a beautiful looking semi-hollow body guitar. They produced this model in 6 & 12 string guitars and bass ones as well. With all the lighting effects on this puppy it’s no wonder they called it the “Lightshow Guitar”. It was only in production from 1970 – 1972 so you can see [...]



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