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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, hope you had a fantastic weekend. Mine was ok, felt a bit ill Saturday though so didn't do too much. Anyway lets get back into a new week with another Hero Worship post. And this week's Hero comes in the form of the Legendary George Harrison. The lead guitarist in the Beatles and a great solo artist aswell. Great friends with legends such as Clapton, even after Eric had an affair with George's missus. What Total Guitar said: You know him by his: Beautifully constructed 'song within a song' solos, exquisite slide[...]

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[...]

So Are You? Or don't you want to be? This relates back to an article I read a few weeks back about guitar motivation. I had plans to write a post about it back then but I was busy so it must have been pushed to the back of my mind. Until I seen a picture of the Hendrix statue in Seattle. This immediately sparked a thought process. Why do we decide to learn the guitar in the first place? What is it that draws us to want to tame this magical beast? Potential Fame? Commanding a Stage? Or maybe just for the general Fun Factor of it? This[...]

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[...]