Michael Sanden Acoustic Masterclass Video We were blown away by this incredible concert, but fortunately we’ve captured the whole thing on video! By Rob Sandall | Wednesday September 14, 2011 1
IK Multimedia AmpliTube – Number 1 in ‘Apps To Impress’ More iApp musical goodness today, this time from IK Multimedia picking up major props for their AmpliTube software and iRig interface By Paul Dakeyne | Wednesday June 29, 2011 0
Dad Rock? Fergeddaboudit When I was about 14 and all I had was a really cheap Woolie’s electric guitar and a converted radiogram for an amplifier, I would practice what few licks I knew in my bedroom. If it got too loud, By MNJ | Friday June 25, 2010 1
It’s hard to go back I can’t get any of my guitars in tune. I have several Boss Tuners, three Korgs and an Intellitouch - all great tuners – but it doesn’t seem to make any difference. The guitars are all well set By MNJ | Thursday June 17, 2010 1
The 80s… Best forgotten Just when I thought I had managed to erase a whole sorry decade from my astonishingly still active memory banks, some misguided producer at the BBC decides it’s time to dredge up the music from t By MNJ | Thursday May 20, 2010 1
Guitar Maintenance – Extras 1. Cleaning In all the articles I read about guitar maintenance, advice on how to keep your guitar clean seems to take up a lot of space. There’s a plethora of do’s and don’ts and which polishe By MNJ | Sunday April 18, 2010 0
Are There Too Many Guitars? Last week I visited a large provincial town in East Anglia to get a computer fixed and upgraded. I didn’t want to hang around for hours while the engineers repeatedly started and restarted my mac By MNJ | Thursday March 18, 2010 0
Guitar Collecting – Is It a Disease? About five years ago I was interviewed by someone who was writing an article about people who collect things. He wasn’t particularly bothered what the objects of desire were, he was interested in By MNJ | Thursday January 14, 2010 0
Gary Numan – Pleasure Principle Tour ’09, Leeds To tick another off the ‘artists I must see’ list, over to Leeds it was last night to check out one of the greatest electronica talents of our time – Gary Numan. Being the 30th anniversary of his By Paul Dakeyne | Thursday November 26, 2009 11
Guitar events, prizes and beer – Free! You’re a Guitar player. You like Guitars. You like prize giveaways. You like free beer. You’ve got spare time on Saturdays and the odd midweek evening? Well, no excuse then. Get your riff jamming By Paul Dakeyne | Thursday October 8, 2009 0
No musician is an island anymore Keyboards, microphones, computer music software, drums, guitars and amplifiers – not so long ago, the musicians who used the gear in each of these categories would have seemed isolated from one a By Barney Jameson | Tuesday October 6, 2009 0
Would Cash have paid the Government’s price? In the late sixties Johnny Cash, although an established country music star with his own TV show and a string of chart topping albums, risked his entire career (and that of his long suffering wif By MNJ | Monday October 5, 2009 1
New Musical Delights on BBC4 It has come to my attention… No, that’s not right.. Dudes, a heads up on some cool music s**t on BBC4! …More rock ‘ n roll huh? Anyway, what a great Autumn/Winter season we have coming to was By Paul Dakeyne | Monday October 5, 2009 0
