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Hello everybody and welcome to a new feature within the blog... Guitar Duel. This is going to be a weekly feature where I pit two legendary guitarists against each other and you lot have to vote on who you think is the better guitarist. I must admit some of these choices will be hard to bare, almost like choosing who is the favourite out of your Mother or your Father. So grit your teeth and get ready to make some agonising but amazing choices. Right, lets get on with the first in the series. This weeks Guitar Duel is going to be[...]

I was walking through my city centre the other day and noticed something very strange. No, it wasn't the massive concrete playground that failed architects had created. Neither was it the still icy floor for the fifth week running. It wasn't even the increased Police presence that I had noticed. No, it was the Guitar shops, or, lack of. I remember when I started playing the guitar about 6 years ago, there were 5 guitar shops within at least five miles of my own house. Let me tell you a little bit about them. Shops, shops, shops! The[...]