Recent content by ozboy

Once I tried a bluechip I've never used another pick. Over the course of a year I moved up from .35 to .8. The theory's the thicker pick lets you get more tone (vibrates the string more) and also aids picking speed because the pick doesn't bend. The downside of heavier/thicker picks is your...

We won't solve Orlando on this forum. I did think the blues track and its atmosphere was somehow fittingly poignant though.

Thinking about Orlando, Wolf Mail, by coincidence, a couple days sent me this blues clip of his mate "Kid Ramos" playing some excellent, lazy blues at an Orlando fair. Can't think of a Blues muso who wouldn't be happy with this playing. If 50 soldiers were killed on duty in a war in...

Even with my ears I can hear the difference between a strat and a Gibson but that's the pup not the wood. I wonder if the average forum member could tell the difference between a semi hollow body and a solid body in a blind test. For me the pup and the amp and the fingers completely dominate...

Reverse Mohawk. Ha ha. Best line I've heard in a while. Bring on the nose and ear hairs

Had long hair in early 70s. Such a pain to look after and so hot playing sport in Australian summer. I am always asking wife and 4 daughters why they don't get their hair cut short but only get the look in response. Before 3 ot the girls left home I estimated maybe as much a$350-400 a month on...

I dunno what's the difference between a tribute band and a band that plays covers?. Most every band has played covers. Lots of hypin and typin goin down seems to me. Either you like what the guys are playing or you don't. No drama either way. Most of us would like to be writing and performing...

A very interesting topic. I play with some full time drummers and bass player occasionally and they always wear ear plugs. Even acoustic drums are mostly going to be over 100 db playing rock in say a 5 meter radius before they are amplified. This means as far as I can tell that if you regularly...

Not ps but the p245 would interest me if I needed yet another guitar, but in fact I have too many.

http://www.guitarfactory.com.au/guitars/electric/PRS/In-store-now

Hi Johan. I bought a prs private stock 30th anniversary cu24 from guitar factory parramatta. I found the guy there very professional to deal with. He had a reasonable range of prs in stock including the one I bought. I was amazed to find one in stock in Sydney. Had to have a Valium and a good...

The first step is often the hardest and like anything else a routine, a deadline and a challenge can all help. Sometimes I don't feel like playing until I start but because there is a new song, a new lick, a new rhythm to learn I know I have to. And then when I start, voila, I don't want to...

This reminds me of the old adage "be careful what you wish for". Studies show that musicians do tend to die young, not ostly in their 20s and 30ss but in their 50s and 60s. Why that should be who knows. Of course their music lives on.

His songwriting, rarely gets enough credit. "the wind crys Mary" has some of the most poetic lyrics in all rock music, according to me :). "Little wing" another short gem of a song, beautiful lyric, chord changes much copied solo. Of course that stuff is not what Jimi is famous for, thats more...

This was a great post with some great videos. Right off topic but I used to put "ten years after live in Europe double album" "steppenwolf the second", canned heat and Rory gallaghers "taste' live on the record player every second night when I was about 16. Canned heat have survived the test of...