Welcome back to the Grapevine. This has been one of the strangest (or most frightening) months I’ve experienced in a long time. People hoarding toilet paper? Seriously bizarre. Since it’s best to stay in and avoid contact with people – OK, I do that a bit anyway – it’s a good time to sit backContinue reading “March 2020 Grapevine”
Category Archives: Studio Tech
Messin With The Music Part 7 – Dead Flowers
There’s so many Rolling Stones songs I’d love to tackle and mess with. We decided to start with ‘Dead Flowers’ from the Sticky Fingers album. The song checked off a couple of boxes for us. People have heard it, but it’s not one of their real famous commercially played songs. It was also one ofContinue reading “Messin With The Music Part 7 – Dead Flowers”
In The Studio Ep 9 – Electrostatic Rhythm Pigs ‘Born Again’
For a while now we’ve been thinking of how to do ‘live’ videos for Electrostatic Rhythm Pigs. We do practice the songs live with just vocals and acoustic guitar. But that doesn’t always give the essence of the song as it was written since many of the songs are the result of several small ‘riffs’Continue reading “In The Studio Ep 9 – Electrostatic Rhythm Pigs ‘Born Again’”
Dog In New Zealand Plays A Mean Blues Guitar!
When I look at my YouTube or Google feeds I often wonder how so many sublimely boring posts get hundreds of thousands of views. Then I realized I have to get the hang of using ‘clickbait’ titles. How many items have you clicked in to due to a sensational title? Once you view one categoryContinue reading “Dog In New Zealand Plays A Mean Blues Guitar!”
January 2020 Grapevine
It’s a new year, so what should we take a look at as far as new music? Sometimes in Grapevine we’ll take a look at music that falls in to a relatively specific style. Not that long ago ‘styles’ of music were relatively basic – music was lumped in to a few large categories: ‘rock’,Continue reading “January 2020 Grapevine”
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