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Hey there everyone, hope you're all feeling ok. I would like to welcome you to a new series of posts that I shall be writing every Saturday. Basically I will be showing you guys all the best Guitar blog posts on the web from the current week. So its all in one nice handy place. Guitar Round-up Share My Guitar So you think you can rock world music? - A clever look at the genre that is 'World Music'. It details that as westerners we categorise anything that doesn't fit into our culture of music, to be classed as world music, when in[...]

I have to really get back into posting more often. It's just not on. Anyway I welcome you to quite a sad post today, as I look to remember some of the greatest guitarist that were tragically murdered or assassinated. Luckily in my whilst doing my research for this post I didn't find that many, probably about 6, but that's still 6 too many. All these musicians wanted to do was play music and make the world a better place, and instead they got savagely gunned down or killed. So let's remember them. So here are the best guitarists that were[...]

Hello everyone and I appreciate that I haven't posted in a couple of weeks but hopefully today's post will spark more. This is more like a list of the guitar blogs that I read on the internet, but nonetheless it is still a list of awesome guitar blog thats you must read. I've been wanting to do this list for some time now because it's sort of a thank you to these blogs aswell. This blog wouldn't have been possible without some on this list showing me that a guitar blog would be a good place to jot down my thoughts. So lets have a look at some[...]

Can I introduce you please to a lump of cheddar cheese? Knit one! Pearl one! Drop one! Curl one! Yes, these are in fact lyrics to a song that very nearly reached number one in the UK charts back in 1998. They are from the England World Cup song, Vindaloo by Fat Les. Granted, it was meant to be tongue-in-cheek, but when you look at some of the biggest songs ever written, you start to see some of the lyrics were extremely obscure and weird. And when you look deeper into it you can find that most of the obscurest lyrics were written around[...]

Our most favoured guitar idols are often people that inspire us with their musical ability and guitar prowess. Their songs often speak to us and tell us that we should try and pick the guitar up, whether it be to emulate some of our favourites or to start our own band or write our own music with our very own style. But it isn't just the music that inspires us to create our own music, sometimes, when they are not getting wasted, sleeping with groupies or taking drugs, guitarists can say some pretty awe inspiring things. So what are the best[...]