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Alright everyone, hope you had a brilliant weekend. I'm currently skint so no outings to the pub for me :-( Bad Times. Anyway, as I write this I can already feel that the choice of guitar hero isn't going to go down to well. His band. The Darkness had only one truly successful album, their debut, and they got a lot of stick for prancing around in leotards. But I assure you, if you listen to the music, especially from the album Permission To Land you will find some outstanding guitar playing for a debut album. This weeks Guitar Hero is[...]

Hello everyone? How was your monday? This week's riff comes from one of the greatest guitarists on the planet, and one of the biggest bands of the late 80's. The band is Guns n Roses. The guitarist is Slash, and the riff... You've guessed it, Sweet Child O Mine. Arguably one of the greatest guitar tracks ever. Q Magazine placed it as the 6th best guitar track of all time, and I would probably say rightly so. Anyway here it is, if you don't know it already, its a riff that every guitarist should have in their catalogue. Here's how[...]

Hello everyone, hope you are all keeping well. Ok, so now that all of the best guitarists of the decade polls are over, I can finally move on to who you think the best guitarist is. The winner of the best 00's Guitarist goes to Matt Bellamy so he has put himself in the running for Greatest Guitarist Ever. Now, the only way that I can think about putting this list together in the fairest way is to take all of your choices on the decade polls and only use those guitarists to determine the Greatest Guitarist. So all of you who didn't[...]

Well the decade is nearly up now and I thought that I should do a little review of it. It has seemed to have gone so fast! It has also seen the revival of guitar-based music within popular culture, but also by the end of the decade, we see Guitars used less and less within this culture as 80's-esque electronica has been bought back. So, what were the big events? We've seen technological advances far beyond anyone expected. We've seen some of the greatest guitar players that graced the planet, sadly pass away. We've seen skinny jeans, robot[...]

Ahhhh we're now in December. I can usually tell from a few things; The bitterly cold wind whilst walking home from the pub, the television is immersed with 'that' Coca-Cola advert, there are various LED Christmas lights being put up around my area. But all of these are just little signs. The main give away that we're nearing close to Christmas is more of a personal one. My sudden want, no need, for a new guitar! I don't know if it's just me or if it is all guitarists, but I could really do with a new guitar this Christmas. In fact one of my[...]