Back at the archive after a couple of months away, playing with Anekdoten in Norway, playing with Olivia in Germany, seeing Patti Smith at the 49th Burg Herzberg festival (where I played my first ever gig with Anekdoten). Attending the Night Of The Prog festival that Olivia hosts and seeing 3 days of the genre […]
With little effort, tapping into those talents that allow me to predict the future, I have been saying this was coming since I realized quite recently that Chuck Berry would be 91 in 2017 – note that Little Richard will be 85 in December. Sadly Chuck didn’t make it to that 91st birthday but his legacy runs […]
Although Brown Sugar might be one of the most overplayed songs in Rock history, one never tires of Jagger’s antics. I saw the Stones live in Stockholm a couple of years ago and Jagger was amazing, it really felt like you were seeing the world’s greatest front man and I would have sworn he was […]
My favourite guitarists are not gymnasts or show offs, they are not experts in technique, scales, modes or theory. Having said that Blues players usually have deep musical knowledge. Blues is a tradition and traditions have guide lines, rules or else the tradition is broken. But what makes this kind of player special is the […]
Keith Richards has a new single, Trouble from the album, Crosseyed Heart to be released on September 18th. I like it – simple, catchy, ragged, biting with the distinctive Richards approach to guitar that shows that he isn’t just influenced, he invented a dish with a different taste using an old recipe – and that of course is […]
One night when Bill Wyman arrived at the studio for a Satanic Majesties recording session, engineer Glyn Johns informed him that the rest of the band hadn’t shown up and enquired as to whether he had anything that he might want to record. This gave birth to, In Another Land, the only song the Stones ever […]