OK - I admit it: I have a thing about rock journalism. I stopped reading rock reviews years ago because so much of it was utterly bewildering (a bit like this sentence; can rock reviews be an ‘it’?).
It’s as if the reviewers have a completely different set of parameters for assessing music to either [...]
I’ve changed the format of the music section. It still covers only a short section of my long and varied career, but it’s now a little bit more accessible.
Instead of linking full length tracks, you can now listen to short 30-40 second snippets. There’s a couple of Jazzrascals tunes, A Reel Funk Inc clip, [...]
I’ve re-organised the guitar section of the web site. The history of the guitars I’ve used has been moved over to the biography section where it rightly belongs, and the 50th Anniversary Strat now has a page of its own in the project section.
Even better, there are some pics of the new guitar, which I’m [...]
Well, the nuts and files finally arrived and I’ve strung the James Bisset 50th Anniversary guitar, opened up the current nut with the files to suit my strings and played it for a while. I’m afraid it makes the old Hank Marvin Squier sound dull and clunky by comparison. Yippee!
But the wiring still isn’t right. [...]
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - oh bugger!
Since I started putting pics on the site to accompany the biography, I’ve been pestered to add more. For some reason, you want to see pictures of this grizzled fifty year old Scotsman when he wasn’t (fifty years old that is). This is of [...]
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