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Well hello and welcome to a Saturday post. Oooooo it's been a long old time since I've done one of these so I hope you enjoy it. Today I'm going to be showcasing the best performances that MTV Unplugged has gave us over the past 21 years. Many great artists have performed for MTV on their Unplugged show from Aerosmith to Dylan, Kiss to Alice In Chains and newer acts such as Vampire Weekend and Paramore. These are just some of the artists to give amazing performances on Unplugged, but which artists were the pick of the bunch? Here I intend to[...]

Hello everyone and welcome to another in the series of weekly guitar quizzes. Firstly I just want to say, over these last two weeks I've probably played guitar more than I have done in a year. I've really enjoyed it. Anyway here's last weeks answers: Van Morrison The Swankers A-C-D-E-G Fear Of Snakes Frank Zappa I hope you all got the questions correct :-) Now on to this weeks quiz: [quiz=20] // Good luck for this weeks fascinating guitar quiz. The answers will be posted on next Fridays quiz. Want Regular Free[...]

Hello everyone and welcome to another Guitar Duel. I apologise for not doing one for a week but I've been busy. Anyway the last Guitar Duel between Paul Weller and Johnny Marr ended with Marr taking 88% of the votes, so thanks for all that voted. Now to this weeks fascinating battle between arguably Ireland's two best guitarist exports. Between this weeks guitarists we look back at 70s blues and technical ability with the guitar. We look at some Bullfrog Blues and some apregio'd delay. So who are these two Irish guitar gods? Well its none[...]

Hello everyone and welcome to the weekly riff. A feature where I teach you a riff, every week (rocket science, uh) Anyway this weeks riff is one where I'm reliving my British youth and I'm sure a lot of other people out there are too. It comes from one of my top ten most influential guitarists and also, in my opinion, one of the best debut albums ever. They were the biggest band in the UK for some time, and even up until they split last summer they were a commanding force in the music industry. So, who are this band? Whos the Guitarist? Whats[...]

Hello everyone and welcome to another Friday quiz. I can't believe the weekend is here already. Those of you who follow my tweets will know I've been playing guitar a lot more recently, mainly Beatles stuff like Day In The Life and that. Anyway here are last weeks quiz answers: 1980 Show me how to live (What's the story) Morning Glory 2 Eddie Van Halen Hope you all got 100% on that one ;-) Here's this weeks quiz: [quiz=19] // Good luck for this weeks fascinating guitar quiz. The answers will be posted on next[...]