Effectology volume 17
Transforming Guitar To Bass…Or … “How Low Can You Go?”Bill Ruppet is back with another of his videos showcasing the amazing non-guitar sounds he – and now you with the help of these videos – can get...
View ArticleCiff ’em
all.Forgot to post yesterday about it being 24 years since Cliff Burton drew the ace of spades and took Kirk Hammett’s bunk that fateful night on their European tour in Sweden. 24 years ago, he was...
View ArticleIf I don’t get some shelter
Oh yeah, I’m gonna fade away.The Rolling Stones’ “Gimme Shelter” one of my favourite, if not my number one fav, tracks of all time. It’s got the lot, from the inclusion of Merry Clayton’s cracking...
View ArticleR.I.P. Mike Starr
another fallen.So the original Alice In Chains line up has been halved with the news that bassist Mike Starr has been found dead in Salt Lake City, aged 44.This of course follows front man Layne...
View ArticleFleetwood Brun wouldn’t have worked
would it?It was announced yesterday that the original Fleetwood Mac bass player Bob Brunning died last month, October 18th.Now Peter Green named his band after the rhythm section he wanted behind him,...
View ArticleKick out the jams mother
fuckers.MC5 bass player Michael Davis died last Friday, February 17th, of liver disease at the age of 68. Which means with the deaths of Rob Tyner and Fred “Sonic” Smith, in the 90s, that 3/5ths of the...
View ArticleR.I.P. Donald “Duck” Dunn
one quarter of the best house band in the business.To play in one of the great house bands is one thing Dunn played in two as he was part of the original Stax house band the Mar-Keys before later...
View ArticleIn the white room with black curtains
near the station.R.I.P. Jack Bruce, one of the finest bass players of his and any generation.The bass, voice and with Pete Brown the songwriter for Cream – well for those tracks not reworkings of blues...
View ArticleLast of the classic Motorhead
line-up.Sad news about the death, last week, of “Fast” Eddie Clarke aged 67, the last of the classic trio line-up of Motorhead.The Three Amigos of Lemmy on bass and vocals, “Philthy Animal” Taylor on...
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