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John Mayer is coming to Toronto

May 14, 2008 by Chris

John Mayer will be playing July 7, 2008 at the Molson Amphitheatre.

jm1.jpg I’ve been so busy doing everything but blogging and playing that I almost missed this show that I would kill to go and see! I love seeing bands live anywhere, but when looking at ticket prices it really makes ya wonder if it’s really worth it.

Now if I had to choose a guitar player(s) I’d like to be stranded on a desert island with, with a 20 year supply of strings and picks, this guy or Bruce Cockburn would be the winners hands down. Just watching John play, or for that matter even listening to anything he does just makes my mind wonder around aimlessly. Oh all those wild chord inversions!!!

jm2.jpgHas anyone else looked at ticket prices and thought the same thing?

The prices are just out of this world! Who can afford them, I can’t even begin to justify the cost. Is it just me or is the way artists make their money on CD sales?

John, I love ya brother, but are you really worth it? Well … maybe.

Keep on Jammin’

P.S. If someone wants to learn how to play a couple of his tunes, and you have a extra ticket with my name on it, I’ll give you 10 free guitar lessons!





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What ever happened to Roger Waters inflatable Pig

May 5, 2008 by Chris

The other day at the Coachella Valley Arts and Music Festival, Roger Waters was using an inflatable Pig during the show and it got away … and I mean really away!

It floated from Coachella California near Palm Springs and landed in a local backyard. It seems that two neighbors found parts of the animal on their property and will split the $10,000.00 reward plus they will get tickets for life for any of the shows in the future!

Lucky buggards … poor pig!

Keep on Jammin’

Filed Under: Concerts, Culture, Entertainment, Humor, Music, Musicians, Recreation Tagged With: 10000 dollar reward, Coachella Valley Arts and Music Festival, Indio california, palm springs, roger waters inflatable pig, roger waters pig found

Cool carved guitar

May 3, 2008 by Chris

Strange guitar

Now that’s what I call a guitar.

It must have taken hours to carve the intricate detail into this guitar. I wonder how it is to play this one. Is it better to stand or sit down with it. There certainly is lots of places to put a extra pick if you need to.

While live with this thing, I think that most people would be more interested in the guitar itself then your playing, ha, ha! You could probably be playing your worst version of shop sticks, if you can figure that one out, and the audience would still applaud after you stop.

God bless distinctive guitars!

Keep on Jammin’, or in this case carving

Filed Under: Entertainment, Guitars, Humor, Recreation Tagged With: audience, carved, carved guitar, carved wood, cool, guitars, intricate detail, weird guitar, wood, wood guitar, wooden guitar

Mother of all guitars!

April 30, 2008 by Chris

Wordless Wednesday

Strange guitar

Imagine carrying this guitar around to gigs or taking it in for repairs. Heck … just imagine tuning the darn thing! Let alone where you might find strings for it!

That’s huge man. I wonder how much it weighs.

Oh, if you like cool guitars – maybe some strange guitars … you’ve got to go over to Guitar Licks and Tips to see my latest post.

Keep on Jammin’

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Hope I’m like this in my Golden Years

April 25, 2008 by Chris

Have you ever thought of what it will be like in your Golden Years, well ya better start now!

You can see another humorous video over at my other guitar related blog Guitar Licks and Tips.

Keep on Jammin’

Filed Under: Concerts, Entertainment, Home and Lifestyle, Humor, Recreation, Songs to play, Video Tagged With: david bowie, david bowie golden years, fun, Golden, golden years, Hope, Humor, The young at heart choir, the young at heart chorus, Video

Ringo Starr loses his head

April 23, 2008 by Chris

I don’t know why anyone would hurt poor old Ringo!

ringotree.jpg

To read more, check out this article in a British paper.

Keep on Jammin’

Filed Under: Culture, Entertainment, Humor, Musicians Tagged With: beatles bush, beatles tree, beatles tribute, funny beatles picture, Ringo Starr, ringo starr tribute, south parkway rail station

Guitar World has a fantastic selection of guitar tabs

April 20, 2008 by Chris

In all honesty, good readership, when I first started to pick up my axe again after a huge break, I didn’t even think about using the internet to look up how to play tunes. Yes, what a rookie move. As a matter of fact, it wasn’t until I started searching online that I began to use tabs at all!

I used to read music all the time no matter which instrument I was playing. So over the years I eventually drifted away from this method of playing and used my memory for most tunes. After a while there were far too many little parts that I had forgotten and it made me quit disappointed in my playing ability! Nowadays, I don’t know what I’d do without guitar tabs. They certainly make it easier to learn a new song!

Although I’ve only used a couple of sites in the past, this site, Guitar World, really stands out to me. Browsing through the site I soon realized that if I was either a beginner, or advanced player of most common instruments, this would be a website to seriously bookmark.

This is a fabulous site to use if you’re looking for some great tunes to add to your repertoire no matter what instrument you play!

I’m a huge Beatles nut from way back in the day so I decided to see what they had. I actually found some refreshing new ways to approach some old standbys that made a lot of sense in my mind. The Guitar World’s Beatles guitar tabs section is very impressive to say the least! The videos in this section were nice, and simple to understand, just the way I like them!

They had so many unique interpretations of how to play certain tunes that I just had to stop and think about where in the song could I squeeze them in. Besides, there is nothing better than having the ability to change up and improve songs when you’re playing live. Always remember that when playing live in front of other musicians, they will take apart everything you do on or off stage. If you add different approaches to a song, you make it that much more appealing to those in the know and they WILL be impressed!

Their nirvana guitar tabs category is a must check out area as well! The tabs here have that subtle differences that you’re looking for in order to keep the crowd attentive and wanting to hear more from ya.

This is a must site to see, I’ll guarantee you!

Keep on Jammin’

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So who is and isn’t a musician here

April 17, 2008 by Chris

I was just wondering to myself today about how many of you, my good readership, are musicians and who isn’t. I’d like to know for a number of reasons. No, this is not to embarrass anyone or start some kind of mid evil Inquisition folks.

It’s just to:

(1) to tailor topics.
(2) and concentrate on certain categories

Just a simple answer would do here folks, nothing earth shattering.

You could state “Musician” or “Non-Musician”. What instruments you play and maybe what type of gear you have. If your a “non-Musician”, then tell us what genre of music gets you going! If you have any interesting or entertaining events might be good for a laugh, I know we all have 1 or 2 of them up our sleeves!

So state your case and get back to us … we’re waiting!

Keep on Jammin’

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Anyone see my pick for this thing

April 15, 2008 by Chris

Good God, I thought that my RD Artist was heavy!

bigelectricguitar3.jpg

Keep on Jammin’

BTW don’t forget to check out my newish Guitar blog Guitar Licks and Tips. I’ve got some great posts over there for guitar and music enthusiasts to go through.

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Big ass bass

April 12, 2008 by Chris

Doesn’t this guy looks like he is playing at a mid evil-palooza show?

reallybigbass.jpg

Keep on Jammin’

Filed Under: Entertainment, Guitars, Humor Tagged With: Acoustic bass, big acoustic bass, funny acoustic bass, funny bass, strange bass guitar, unique bass, unique bass guitars

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