Category Archives: Music

Oh Well

This review from one Amazon customer puts it so well that I’m now  accused of being ‘him’!    

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New Interview

I’ve just done a new interview for Mr Harry Pye in his excellent  Rebel  magazine.

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New! New! New!

Here’s a new post … featuring my new YouTube clips … using my new guitar … to promote my new book. (Yep … that old trick.)

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Rough Notes

‘A most entertaining hybrid of memoir and cultural history’: Rock-n-Reel Magazine. More info on the Rough Notes page …or at Amazon UK and Amazon US      

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New Toys

These are a couple of Danelectro basses recently imported from the US. Left, is a Hodad with three lipstick tube pick-ups and a state-of-the-art “Selectomatic” tone switch. The other, is the Rumor Bass (also known as the Danoblaster) which has a built-in chorus effect. Both are long-scale and, as they are made from plywood and Masonite, are pretty lightweight. Both have that Mosrite body shape and a sparkle finish, too – very “surf”. I’ll be doing YouTube clips with them … Continue reading

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Who did it?!

The Who claim that their set at Glastonbury was one of their worst they’ve ever done because the equipment was sabotaged.

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Who

With all this talk about the Who — I thought it might be a good time for a pic of the band.        

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Andy Fraser 1953-2015

So another great bass player passes. Free’s Andy Fraser had a very original approach to playing … ‘less is more’  …as exemplified in the classic track, All Right Now, which he co-composed with my ex-Roadrunners cohort, Paul Rodgers.

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