Category: Guitar News

Clapton: The Autobiography
Canoe Jam has an interesting article about Eric Clapton’s autobiography.
“He also delves into his romance with Pattie Boyd, who wound up with Clapton after her split with Beatle George Harrison. Their star-crossed affair made her the muse for some of Clapton’s most memorable songs, including “Layla” and “Wonderful Tonight,” before the romance gave way to recriminations.
Clapton recalled a recent Sunday morning trip to his local grocery store, where Boyd’s new memoir, “Wonderful Tonight,” was excerpted in the British press. The page one headline jumped out as he grabbed the paper: “ERIC CLAPTON’S DRINKING KILLED MY MARRIAGE.”
“The headline editor chose to castigate me quite strongly,” Clapton says with more than a touch of British understatement. “I’m in the local shop, and I’m thinking, ‘Are the neighbours watching me read?”‘ ”
The full article is here

Death By Guitar
For an activity that involves high levels of drugs, alcohol, stupidity and electricity, surprisingly few accidents involving electric guitars have been recorded:
Keith Relf, was the harmonica player and lead singer in The Yardbirds. He was killed in 1976 by a shock from an electric guitar that was not grounded properly.
Leslie Harvey of an unknown group called Stone The Crows, was killed in 1972 by a microphone that was not properly grounded.
John Rostill, bass guitar player of The Shadows, was killed in 1973 while waiting in his home studio for Bruce Welch, The Shadows’ rhythm guitar player.

Vintage Guitar Show 2007
Maybe I’m not enthusiastic enough but watching guitar nerds try out 5000 euro guitars (I didn’t dare to touch anything I can’t afford *g*) just wasn’t satisfying for that 12 bucks entry fee. I bought myself a set of Fender strings, a handful of picks, and a high end instrument cable (which really makes a difference, to my surprise) for twenty, which very well compensated me for the entry, but unless I win a lottery or something and can buy one of the real things I doubt I’ll go there again next year.
Vintage Guitar Show

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Could Guitar Hero Put Music Teachers Out of Biz?
Who needs music lessons when there’s Guitar Hero? The game’s guitar-shaped controller puts you on the stairway to heaven (or the highway to hell), even if you can’t play a lick. Its publisher, Harmonix, has honed the song list into a hard-rock syllabus and turned the game and its sequel into blockbusters, selling 5 million units for PlayStation 2 and Xbox. MTV bought the company last year for $175 million. Now all we need is a cigarette-lighter-shaped controller to show our appreciation.

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Lana Garcia is a long-time guitar fan and an avid collector of guitar lessons and teaching materials. Last week she added two more to her planned battalion of guitar related hubpages:
“Guitar music books are “themed” collections of music. Music for an occasion or to set a mood. Guitar music to evoke an emotion. Or a collection of music to remind us of an historical period, be it medieval romance or early rock n’ roll. We become interested in a certain kind of music and buy a book. We learn from the book and move on. But the book is always there to refresh our interest, to remind us where we are up to in our musical pursuits.”
Guitar Music Books
“Guitar books are essentially collections of music. They may be anthologies of a particular performer, collections of songs from a certain period of history, the best of a genre, or “fake books”. A “fake book” is a collection of songs which shows just the melody and chords, leaving the performer to give his or her own interpretation. This way you can quickly learn songs to play solo or with friends. A guitar player can easily accumulate a huge library of books of music which he delves into whenever he needs new material.”
Guitar Books

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