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Alright everyone, hope you had a brilliant weekend. I'm currently skint so no outings to the pub for me :-( Bad Times. Anyway, as I write this I can already feel that the choice of guitar hero isn't going to go down to well. His band. The Darkness had only one truly successful album, their debut, and they got a lot of stick for prancing around in leotards. But I assure you, if you listen to the music, especially from the album Permission To Land you will find some outstanding guitar playing for a debut album. This weeks Guitar Hero is[...]

Hello everyone? How was your monday? This week's riff comes from one of the greatest guitarists on the planet, and one of the biggest bands of the late 80's. The band is Guns n Roses. The guitarist is Slash, and the riff... You've guessed it, Sweet Child O Mine. Arguably one of the greatest guitar tracks ever. Q Magazine placed it as the 6th best guitar track of all time, and I would probably say rightly so. Anyway here it is, if you don't know it already, its a riff that every guitarist should have in their catalogue. Here's how[...]

So the last decade was a pretty good one for music, and especially guitar music. We saw some great Guitar bands, and some great Guitarists. But what can we look forward to in the first year of the next Decade, 2010? Well, there are some great bands that are releasing some new material. There are also more Guitar games coming out. And there is an ever increasing presence of Guitar-related websites. Albums To Look Out For Vampire Weekend - Contra The Strokes MGMT Red Hot Chili Peppers Kings Of Leon The White Stripes Fleet[...]

Ahhhh we're now in December. I can usually tell from a few things; The bitterly cold wind whilst walking home from the pub, the television is immersed with 'that' Coca-Cola advert, there are various LED Christmas lights being put up around my area. But all of these are just little signs. The main give away that we're nearing close to Christmas is more of a personal one. My sudden want, no need, for a new guitar! I don't know if it's just me or if it is all guitarists, but I could really do with a new guitar this Christmas. In fact one of my[...]