Mason Ruffner – Texas Blues Legend – Ready To Rock August 16, 2010
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Mojos was a classy, roomy, atmospheric blues bar and restaurant tucked away off one of Bangkok’s raunchier back streets. It was early one Sunday evening and the weekly blues jam there was just shuffling off to a cautious start, with the usual suspects and wannabes hanging and waiting to perform.
The gig always attracted some good players, some local expats and some from around the world – just passing through mostly – Bangkok being one of the hedonistic capitals of the world and a magnet for musicians with that recurring dream that somehow Bangkok had it all – the gigs and the chicks on tap. (more…)
Giant Step August 11, 2010
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Coltrane
Coltrane
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Jazz Search Engine July 31, 2010
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Breaking Jazz News
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Best Serious Guitar Shop In Bangkok July 31, 2010
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Ask Dad: Types of Guitars July 31, 2010
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They come around with the simplest questions kids do…but sometimes you are stumped because you know but you don’t know how to condense it for the ten-year-old instant answer…get him a laptop and tell him to go here with any guitar questions.
Guitars With An Image problem? July 31, 2010
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If you’ve been down to your local blues bar recently and seen some young gun playing a beat-up 1959 Stratocaster, your eyes may have been fooling you. What looks like a vintage Strat is probably a “relic,” a modern-day copy that’s been artificially aged by master artisans: carefully worn, tarnished, rubbed, beaten and otherwise altered to look like it’s seen 50 years of sweat, smoke and back-room jam sessions. (more…)
Tune That Name July 31, 2010
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Sticks and stones, you may have been told, can break your bones, but names can never hurt you. True, perhaps, in everyday life; not so in pop music. Names can do serious damage. There’s one very good reason why Parisian baggy revivalists Shit Browne may struggle to make it on to daytime radio playlists, for instance. But at least they’re trying. Better than hedging your bets like the increasing number of bands, or individual artists, who’ve removed the traditional “The” from their name to become vague, indefinite articles – something, yet nothing. Klaxons, Liars, Foals, Editors, Villagers, Hurts, Battles … the list goes on. In their desire to sound fashionably vague, I fear these acts are selling themselves short.
