View from the Potting Shed

If you can’t view the embedded video clip maybe you can still watch it at YouTube.
Spotted on Digg.com yesterday, I’ve seen clips of guitarist extraordinaire Andy McKee before and he’s no less inspirational now than the first time I watched this video.
I think what makes the video appear more remarkable is his unorthodox guitar-playing style, […]

Back at work yesterday and I was still feeling a little dizzy and headachy but delighted to be back. Feeling a little fragile, I listened to Delirious? The Mission Bell. (If you don’t believe me just check Last.fm!)
I’m quite particular about the music I listen to: for example, I’m one of these people that […]

Pete Cornish TB-83 Treble Boost guitar pedal. Sadly I don’t have one of these, though.
For as long as I can remember, I’ve loved Brian May’s guitar tone. That unique combination of his fingers, his homemade guitar (the Red May Special, famously built by Brian and his dad Harold out of amongst other things an old […]

So there I was the other day innocently browsing the World Wide Web looking for a suitable, compact treble booster pedal for my guitar setup when I stumbled upon the news that DigiTech are to release a Brian May pedal in their Artist Pedals series of effects pedals.
I found elsewhere online a list of the […]

Calamateur in concert, Andrew on acoustic guitar and Mark at keyboards.
This evening Valleyboy Rich, the lovely Jane and I popped over to The Vine Church, Dunfermline to see our long-time Inverness-based friend Andrew Howie’s band Calamateur gig at the Vine Café.
The venue was contemporary, and not at all church-like, which suited the gig perfectly. […]

Today was the first time, I’m ashamed to say, that I’d changed the strings on my Burns Brian May guitar. I’d got it into my head that the Grover Locking Machine Heads (tuning pegs, to you and me) would be difficult to operate.
Quite the opposite. They were a dream to use: […]

Last night at the Powerpoint band rehearsal I discovered why my guitar hums more on stage than it does when I’m playing it at home.
It’s been quite annoying these last few months. When I’m playing, it’s not too bad because I can’t hear the hum and buzz because of the volume, but as soon […]