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If I could travel back in time, what would I want to go back and see? Why? Landmarks in time? People in Time? Events in Time?
In addition to all the gigs that I have seen, these are the ones that I wish could travel back in time to be at:
Everyone loves a list or two!! Here’s one of my favorites!
Here’s my personal 10 greatest Hard Rock songs of my generation… which we’ll loosely call the 1990’s and early 2000’s…. lets face it this list could have been a top 50! with the likes of Audioslave, Extreme, Alice Cooper, Stone Temple Pilots, Aerosmith, Janes Addiction, Smashing Pumpkins and many more making their way on the the list….
1. Velvet Revolver – Slither
2. Metallica – Sad but True
3. Guns n’ Roses – You Could Be Mine
4. Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit
5. Pearl Jam – Black
6. Foo Fighters – Best Of you
7. Lenny Kravitz – American Woman
8. Queens of the Stone Age – No One Knows
9. Rage Against the Machine – Killing in the Name
10. Green Day – Basket Case
Disagree? Add your list in the comments and lets see what yout got!
After scouring the internet for many a month for simple(ish) Power Chord Rock songs that will keep you ticking over in learning guitar as well as being fun to play… I’ve pulled together this list of songs that, in my eyes, are not only are great tracks but also should get you going on the guitar with just some basic theory on guitar playing…. (I’m sure you can dig out the Tab on ultimate-guitar.com yourselves). If you’ve got any other songs that you think fall in to this bracket then get them added to the comments section below!
Presidents of the USA – Lump
Papa Roach – Infest
Lenny Kravitz – Fly Away Continue reading “Ultimate Power Chord Rock Riffs”
Electric Sessions: \,,\ (..) /,,/
It started with Electric…
It rapidly improved with Acoustic…
And now its back to the roots R’n’F’n’R on the Electric Guitar again!
I won’t labour too much on the history of this as I’ve mentioned it in earlier posts [POST=321], but, I’ve now done the full circle from trying to play along with my mate when I was 13, giving up for 10 years, getting some electric lessons, playing in some Acoustic Lesson Sessions and now back to Electric Lesson Sessions, with what feels like a much better equipped skill-set and mindset… Continue reading “The Electric Guitar Lessons”
Ok… So the first day comes! I wake up pretty early a) because we have to b) because I’m used to it, and c) cos I have a moderate hangover.
Hotel Breakfast: GREAT! filled my boots, usual hot buffet stuff…. hmmmm food! I shouldn’t be writing this so close to lunch! Anyway…
Back to the rooms to get kitted up for the off.
The Harley Riders Edge Centre is a short ride away from where the Hotel in Builth Wells. Continue reading “Road Trip (Riders Edge) Part III: Getting There!”
Once I meet up with Dan though the ride all of a sudden became a whole different story!!!
The Route: [MAP FROM Abergele TO Llandrindod]
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On this route you get immediately into the whole reason for the trip…. Riding on (challenging? Kinda, but more relaxed tbh) roads that has very little traffic on!
We took a steady pace, because lets face it who wants to rush a ride like that, especially when you have all day Continue reading “Road Trip (Riders Edge) Part II: The Way Down”
OK, so the, premise to this is that I had spoken with some friends previously about an Advanced Riders Course and that its something worth doing. One of my friends (Dan) ended up in conversation with my dad on the very same subject and mentioned that he was planning on doing a course of that nature down in South Wales at the Harley Davidson instruction centre – Riders Edge. As it was coming up to my birthday my dad ran the idea past me and of course I jumped at the chance!
Road trip + Advanced course + Harley experience = What’s not to love! Continue reading “Road Trip (Riders Edge) Part I: The Meet-up”
Well, quick post…. we got back from holiday to find a little surprise behind the sofa! Kittens! They weren’t due for a week or so yet, or so we thought! but here they are, one Black one with White flashes, the other one White with patch work … looks just like Fender, their ‘Uncle’! Quick Vid….
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCDcN7bADz0]Once rainy afternoon in Bollington, we took the nipper swimming and when filling our boots with chocolate afterwards, my wife noticed an add on the notice board in the leisure centre:
“Adult Guitar Class. Play popular songs.
Tuesdays 7.30 – 9.30 p.m. at the Dog & Partridge.
Bollington.
Tel: Mark 07989 600001”
Well I gave Mark a call, and he promptly invited me down to come and watch half a session. Looked like just what I was after.
The sessions are Mark (Lineham) at the front with Continue reading “The Acoustic Guitar Lessons”
After learning a series of guitar solos on the electric guitar I found that there was a hole in my skill set! I could learn the tab for playing some awesome solo’s but when it came to stringing them together with some chords to play a complete song I started to struggle!
With this in mind, I started thinking that I should get an acoustic guitar and put in some proper chord work to get me underway.
To that end I got Continue reading “The Acoustic Guitar”