Hello everyone and welcome to another Guitar Duel, a battle of legendary guitarists wits, stamina and skills. These contests provide blood, sweat and tears from our guitar heroes but I'm afraid they have to be done. Well done for everyone who voted on the last guitar duel between Chuck Berry and BB King, it was close at the start but then King started to pull away and he was the winner in the end. Anyway now on to this weeks fascinating encounter between two of the best British guitarists of the 70s and 80s and two guitarists that are still[...]
Hello everyone and welcome to another Hero Worship post. I know it's been a while on the old worship front so I thought you guys deserved a lil Hero Worship. This weeks legendary guitarist is a real corker. Inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990, voted 50th in Rolling Stone Magazines 100 Greatest Guitarists and the godfather of smashing guitars and a windmilling picking arm. He's also wrote several rock opera's from Tommy to one of my favourite films of all time, Quadrophenia. He still tours with his band, The Who even though hes[...]
Hello again everyone, hope you're all dandy. Welcome to another weekly riff. This weeks riff comes from one of my personal guitar heroes and one that I covered a few weeks back in the Hero Worship post, Justin Hawkins. It comes from The Darknesses first album, Permission To Land. It was released twice, once in 2002 and then re-released as a third single from the album in 2003. It is an instantly recognisable riff and probably the Darknesses most recognised song, reaching number 2 in the British charts. The song, of course, is that amazing[...]
Well harrow everybody and welcome to another edition of that favourite Guitar Duel! This is a feature on the blog where I put two of the worlds best guitarists and make them fight to the death. Well, not literally, but they have to fight for the readers votes. It's kinda the same. Anyway last weeks duel of White Vs Bellamy did not result in a winner as you lot couldn't decide between them. This weeks duel comes from two of the finest British guitarists ever. Between them they have sold over 400 million albums worldwide and have been in two of[...]
Hello everyone and welcome to another post in the series of Hero Worship, where I take a weekly look at someone who I think is a Guitar Legend. This week is the turn of Blur guitarist, Graham Coxon. A bit different from the flamboyant antics of last weeks Hero, Justin Hawkins. But a Guitar Hero none the less.
Coxon played some amazing guitar and I have already covered one of his classic riffs in the weekly riff section before. From Parklife to Song 2, Coxon has belted out some top quality riffs. So here's what Total Guitar said about[...]