Hey all, well I know that I have not posted anything for a while. I have been trying to sort out my recording setup to get my YouTube channel up and running, I know I’ve been saying about this for quite some time but I managed to sell my half stack amp as I am more into the recording side of things so I am currently trying to decide what to get for recording and whether to get a new amp or not. I was hoping to get everything setup just after Christmas but have not decided what I am going to get yet! Hopefully I will get it up and running soon tho!

I am also currently deciding whether to get recording stuff or a new guitar. I am thinking about maybe changing style in my playing to more modern sound and maybe getting a 7 string guitar. I have not been playing so much for the past few months so I really need to get back into it as soon as possible! Hopefully I will have more to post about the music side of things soon.

Posted: March 16th, 2012 under General, Guitar, Music.
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Well I was looking online for articles about the music industry today and found this brilliant article: Piracy Didn’t Kill The Music Business. Some great points made in the article are the following:

Sell Fast. Disappear Faster.

It’s expensive to develop an artist. It is common knowledge that for every 12 artists signed to a label, 10 lose money, 1 breaks even and 1 makes enough to pay for the development of all the others put together. It’s a really risky business. But, the small independent labels didn’t care because they wanted to discover the next Bob Dylan or Bruce Springsteen. They knew that one major success could make up for a string of costly failures.

Unfortunately, that equation doesn’t work in the corporate environment. You have to justify your budget every year, every quarter. The only way to do that was to release lowest common denominator music that would sell fast but fade just as quickly.

This caused major record labels to forget what got them involved in the first place, “heritage artists.” Tom Petty, Springsteen, Bon Jovi, U2, Metallica, and others were what sustained them over the long haul, not The Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears. Heritage artists were bands and musicians developed over years and they didn’t come cheap, but they made up for it in the long run.

Posted: January 19th, 2012 under General, Music.
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Hey all, well it’s Christmas Eve and I have not posted anything for ages so thought that it was about time that I did! Well with Christmas tomorrow I thought that I would post something Christmassy, well a couple of things really. Firstly did anyone hear about the Tim Minchin thing? Basically Tim was removed from the Jonathon Ross show for making a comedy song about Jesus… got me thinking do we actually live in a more intelligent age? Going by mass media we shouldn’t become more intelligent OR have own own views on anything. The right wing press would sooner have some 1960′s racist comedian than Tim Minchin who’s song is clearly a joke song by both how it was sung and wrote. Every comedian on TV mocks religion, Christianity is basically a mock up of previous religions anyway. Tim wrote a great post on his website and has posted the song on YouTube:

Tim Minchin – I’m NOT on the Jonathon Ross Show

Another thing which I find always gets news about over the Christmas period is this whole Manufactured music show, the X Factor.. none of the people can write their own lyrics let alone explain any form of music theory yet the public gets obsessed with the show that is clearly just made to brainwash people into buying a sell out Christmas #1. Well this year their wanted #1 looks to be going to #5 with ‘Military Wives’ or ‘Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit’ being the most likely single to be #1. Friend of mine posted this video (Rob Chapman – who has worked with Producer Eddie Kramer) of a brilliant comedian named: Steve Hughes with a statement that all musicians (and none mainstream media sheep) feel needed to be said:

Happy Christmas anyway, we can all put up our ‘pagan trees’ to celebrate.

Posted: December 24th, 2011 under General, Music.
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Well I have totally re done the guitarists page on the site to include other more recent influences and more guitarists that I have been listening to over the past 4 years. I go into more detail about each guitarist and explain why they are inspirational to me. Obviously my main influences are from the late 1980′s to early 1990′s as I saw that period being the best time for Rock and Metal music. Feel free to check out the page and leave feedback.

Guitarists

Posted: September 16th, 2011 under General, Guitar, Music.
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Well I have gone back to one of my old site designs to co-inside with my other site. The theme has some differences, hope you like the new design. I am going to be doing tech reviews mainly on this website from now on.

Posted: September 15th, 2011 under General, Programming.
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Hey all, well the new site launches have been put back a bit due to major site changes which are going to be happening over the next week or so. Basically I am optimizing the site and setting up new servers for all of my sites (including the new ones). I’m hoping that you have noticed a few changes to the site already (as in speed etc) as I have already set the site up with new security and other adjustments!

Posted: September 4th, 2011 under General.
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Well I have been busy working on other development projects over the past couple of week so have not got around to placing the new site up properly yet. I am hopefully going to launch the site after this weekend tho! Been trying to get around to doing mixing etc and getting some more music content before the launch!

Posted: August 26th, 2011 under General.
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Well I know I only posted a interview with Sammy a few months ago but this one is also great. Just love the way Sammy talks about Music, you can tell by how he talks that he is a passionate musician. Like he says on the part about Chickenfoot “I wanted Chickenfoot to be a jam band and about musicianship”.

Posted: August 26th, 2011 under General, Guitar, Music.
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Hey all, well I have not posted anything recently as I have been really busy doing development of two new websites along with trying to get demos done of my new solo album I have been working on. I was meant to be changing servers at the end of this month but I cancelled it at the last minute as the web host I was moving to went down, so not knowing how long the servers were down for I thought I would just as well stay with the best UK host for the moment! Anyway these two new sites go live at the beginning of next month!

Also trying to get some videos going on YouTube to co-inside with the launch, have so many Guitar competitions going at the moment too that I am trying to record for! Can’t say much else for the moment!

Posted: July 28th, 2011 under General.
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Well I have been working on a book which is about guitar and music theory. The book will contain all the information you need to know about guitar theory, chords, scales and keys. The main reason for writing the book was for myself as a reference guide when composing, but when it is finished I might even release the book as a digital document – probably a pdf with proper indexed sections. I chose to write this book also in a way in which I would have liked to have learnt it. I think a lot of books out there are not ordered that greatly and do not explain scales and relative keys very well – they make mode and scale explanations confusing. This book will be pure theory, or at least that’s all I have planned for the moment anyway. I learnt all my theory from a well known tutor at ‘The Academy Of Contemporary Music‘ and I think this book will be beneficial for both learning and referencing when composing music. I will hopefully post some more information soon!

Posted: June 3rd, 2011 under General, Guitar, Music.
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