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Hello and welcome to another in the Hero Worship series. Hope you are all ok? Anyway, this weeks post takes us to 70's Glam Rock in the form of the legendary Marc Bolan. Big hair, big riffs and premature death all make this guitarist and frontman an icon. What Total Guitar Said: You Know Him By His: Corkscrew curls, pre-Slash top hat, feather boas and glam rock riffs. Greatest Moment: 20th Century Boy. Who said galm rock couldn't be heavy? David Bowie had more staying power and the New York Dolls' burnout tale is more[...]

I was walking through my city centre the other day and noticed something very strange. No, it wasn't the massive concrete playground that failed architects had created. Neither was it the still icy floor for the fifth week running. It wasn't even the increased Police presence that I had noticed. No, it was the Guitar shops, or, lack of. I remember when I started playing the guitar about 6 years ago, there were 5 guitar shops within at least five miles of my own house. Let me tell you a little bit about them. Shops, shops, shops! The[...]

Hello everyone, hope you're all ok? This weeks riff comes from the best band that ever graced the popular music scene... The Beatles. The song I have chosen today for the Riff of The Week, is the great Beatles classic, I Feel Fine This classic guitar riff was written primarily by Lennon, who wanted to write a song around this particular riff that he had written. It was towards the end of the album so everyone else wasn't really too interested until Lennon cam back with the riff, and the song, and it made the album. And thank God it[...]

Ahhhhh well back to life, back to reality. It seems about a month since I last did a Hero Worship post, but in truth it's probably much longer than that. So, for that, I am sorry. But enough of me waffling on! Let's get to worshipping some guitar greats. And this weeks guitar god is the one and only Johnny Marr. What Total Guitar Said: You Know Him By His: Bittersweet symphonies and inspired songwriting, usually thrashed out on a Rickenbacker, Gibson SG or ES-355 Greatest Moment: The outro of 'the Boy With The Thorn In His[...]

Hello everyone. Hope you are all dandy. Welcome to another post in the series of riff of the week. This weeks riff is a real beauty. It is one of the most instantly recognisable riffs ever invented, and shows why Keith Richards was voted 10th best guitarists of all time in Rolling Stone magazines greatest guitarists chart. It signified a breakthrough for the Stones as it was their first record to hit number 1 in both the UK and the US. The song that I am talking about, of course, is (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction. Apparently it[...]

Hello everyone, hope you're all ok. Welcome to another quiz of the week. Hope you all did well on last weeks quiz and here are the answers: 1) Kurt Cobain 2) Black Francis 3) Duane Allman 4) Highway To Hell 5) Puddle Of Mud Hope you all did well. Now here's this weeks quiz: [quiz=8] Good Luck. :-) Amazon.com Widgets Other Posts in the Series: Quiz 1 Quiz 2 Quiz 3 Quiz 4 Quiz 5 Quiz 6 Quiz 7 Subscribe in a reader Enter your email address: Delivered by[...]

Heya guys, How are you all? Back to another weekly quiz now, as it's been a while since the last one. If you participated in the last quiz the answers were: 1) Seattle 2) London 3) Mirror 4) The The 5) Keith Richards Hope you all did well. So now onto this weeks quiz. Here it is: [quiz=7] Good Luck. :-) Amazon.com Widgets Other Posts in the Series: Quiz 1 Quiz 2 Quiz 3 Quiz 4 Quiz 5 Quiz 6 Subscribe in a reader Enter your email address: Delivered by[...]

Ok, Hello and welcome to the first of the Monthly competitions. I’ve decided to kick off 2010 by staging a monthly competition around 14/15th of every month. So be sure to check back around that time or sign up to the RSS for your chance to win some amazing prizes. So How Do I Enter? Aha, how do I enter, I hear you ask. Well, to enter this free competition all you have to do is; Comment on the post saying, "I'm In" Retweet the post using the Retweet button in the top right corner of the post Sign up to the email rss at the[...]

Hello everyone, hope you are all keeping well. Ok, so now that all of the best guitarists of the decade polls are over, I can finally move on to who you think the best guitarist is. The winner of the best 00's Guitarist goes to Matt Bellamy so he has put himself in the running for Greatest Guitarist Ever. Now, the only way that I can think about putting this list together in the fairest way is to take all of your choices on the decade polls and only use those guitarists to determine the Greatest Guitarist. So all of you who didn't[...]

Hello everybody. You all ok? I'm feeling slightly hungover as it was my birthday yesterday, so I went out last night. Anyway on to the post. Here is another Riff of the Week post, and this week, a classic riff. Enter Sandman is this weeks riff and I'm sure you all know it and can probably play it. But for all you people out there who have forgot it or haven't attempted it, here it is to jog your memory. And here's how it should sound: Hope that helps. Good Luck. Bye Subscribe in a reader Enter your email[...]