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Hello everyone and welcome back to another weekly riff and one of my favourite songs of the late 70s and my favourite song from this particular band. It also comes from a band who I am really into at the minute, maybe you could already tell with yesterdays Hero Worship post. The song was released in 1979 and was put on the compilation album Boys Don't Cry which was released in 1980. It feels weird that such an amazing song could not make it onto any studio album but maybe that adds to its charm and stature. I think the first time I heard this[...]

Forgive me Father for I have sinned, it has been 7 weeks since my last Hero Worship post. But what a way to carry on the Worship with  a  great, if not weird looking guitarist. He comes from a band that first formed in 1976, but had their most success in the 80's. He is often considered as one of the pioneering guitarists of the Alternative Rock and Indie music scene. The band have sold more than 27 Million Albums worldwide and have their main success in the United States. They have had 13 studio albums to date with their eight studio album,[...]

Hello everyone and welcome to another weekly guitar quiz. Guess what? We've reached our 25th quiz :-) Good Times. Hopefully now the world cup is over I can finally get some work done on this blog. So you should all expect a few more posts than there has been in the last few weeks. Anyway lets look at the last quiz answers: 2001 1968 Muddy Waters 1975 1972 Western starring Jeff Bridges Let's hope you all got the questions right. Now onto this weeks quiz. [quiz=25] // Good luck for this weeks fascinating guitar quiz.[...]

Well hello there and welcome to another weekly riff! I know its been quite a few weeks but the World Cup was on, so you can't begrudge me that can ya? :-P This weeks riff comes from one of my favourite acoustic performances ever. The version that I have decided to do is from 1993 and an MTV Unplugged performance in New York, which was actually featured in my MTV Unplugged post a few months back. The original version of this song was released way back in the early 70's by the legendary David Bowie and then covered again in the MTV performance[...]

Well there have been some really iconic albums down the years, sparking a certain something in people when they listen to the album. A music album can take you back to a different time in your life, that great summer, that first love, or it can be the icon of a generation. But aside from the music, albums can be made iconic or more iconic with the artwork that accompanies them on the front of their album sleeve. There have been some great album covers over the years and today I am going to take a look at some of the best. But first we have to[...]