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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[...]

Hello everyone and welcome to another weekly guitar quiz. This is where you can test your guitar knowledge every week. Here's last weeks answers: 1936 Pete Townshend Palm Mute MC5 Beefeaters Lets hope you all got those correct and your guitar knowledge is outstanding. Now onto this weeks quiz: [quiz=27] // I hope you got all of those questions correct. The answers will be posted on next weeks quiz. Want Regular Free Updates? Just sign up below with an RSS Reader or by email for your free updates. Subscribe in[...]

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[...]

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[...]