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Category Archives: Guitar

“Earthman” on Last.fm

I am, as many of you know, rock incarnate. If the sound that Slash’s guitar makes was formed into a sentient biped and sent swaggering up to the bar, you’d get me. That’s a given.
What some of you possibly don’t know is that before Crashstars (formerly Little Monkeys), I was a solo instrumentalist and I [...]

Guitars page updated…

I’ve now added all the guitars I own and all the guitars I’ve previously owned to the Guitars & Gear page. Hoopy.
Amp and pedal details plus recording setup still to come.
–c.

What guitars?

In a moment of downtime at work, I shoved the first few guitars onto the guitars page! Look you!
–c.

Koch And Roll

WARNING: GUITAR/AMP TECHY POST.
A couple of years ago I was still using my ADA MP-1 preamp with a Marshall power amp. Then at a UKMG gathering, the excellent Wide Open were playing, and I was highly impressed with their sound. Vinny Burns leant over to me and said “You’ve outgrown that ADA, you know. You [...]

London Guitar Show

The London Guitar Show 2005 starts today - opens in about 20 minutes, in fact - and continues tomorrow and Sunday.
I will be demoing tomorrow and Sunday on the Arrowhead Guitars / Tipton Amps stand, playing tracks from my album and selling CDs at the reduced show price of £10.
At least drop by and say [...]

Desire

I WANT A LES PAUL, DAMMIT!
A white one. And no, it’s not because of the Darkness.

Playas From Planet Terrific

In no particular order:
Jamie Humphries
Mark Gibson
James Went
The Mighty Mighty Rob Balducci (you bugger!)
Oh, and Guthrie Govan almost goes without saying.

The Fest of Jems

Well, Jemfest UK 2003 happened on Saturday, and it was the ultimate blast.
I was third on the bill, which meant that there was a lot of waiting around to be done before my band got to play, but there were some excellent acts on during that time, my favourite of which was probably everRain featuring [...]