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…and grainy images
…rummaging through the shoe box of old photos in the attic last week, I found a few interesting ones … …so I’ve upgraded Rough Notes with them … … “just in time for Christmas” (some might say) …
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New Book!!!
For more information visit the page… Or buy from Amazon UK …or Amazon US
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Enter the mind of Bruce Lee
I’ve contributed to an article – Enter the mind of Bruce Lee – just published on the CNN website…
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Here’s one from the archives I only happened upon recently … anyone know where it is … and when? Bob Foulks just sent me the second image — but this gig was a full three months before my bass was re-sprayed — so it must have been ‘colorized’.
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Bass Tabs
An increasing number of people keep asking if there’s a book of tablature or scores of my bass parts. It’s a project I tried to get underway a while ago with a guy called Paul Wolfe. The problem is that once you attach the parts in any way to the chord structure or lyrics of the song in question, copyright issues become involved, and EC’s music publishers Hal Leonard basically made the entire project non-viable. There is a certain amount … Continue reading
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A band!!
I haven’t seen this shot since it was first taken. In Tokyo we all went out and bought matching Japanese school blazers because they look so much like the jackets The Beatles wore at Shea Stadium.
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The Distractions!
I was recently alerted to San Diego tribute band, The Distractions. My only advice to them is to make sure the bass player has no literary ambitions – otherwise he’ll be out on his ear. (And to get himself a Profile Bass 🙂
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Uber Rock Interview
I’ve recently done an interview for the online magazine Uber Rock. Visitors to this blog and readers of Rough Notes will be familiar with some of the material. But there’s always an opportunity for a new joke or a bad pun…
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