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- Early Pil Excellent Video, Featuring A Travis Bean Wedge And An Ampeg Scroll Bass
guitarz.blogspot.com Er, the title says it all but I can give some extra details: this is Public Image Ltd's first TV, on BBC2's show The Old Grey Whistle Test in 1980, performing Poptones from the Metal Box album. You can see Keith Levene...
- Ibanez Talman Artcore Tm 81 Thinline
guitarz.blogspot.com I already told here and here how much I liked Ibanez Talmans, a short-lived nice no-nonsense guitar series from the 1990s than could have become a hit and disappeared without much legacy (but the acoustic model that still is...
- Concert
In the last months I started again to play music on stage with my band Soft Power Ensemble of Vienna, now it's time to go back to solo, it will be on August 22nd at the Klangfestival #7 in Gallneukirchen, Austria. I announced...
- More Sketches
music of the week: I easily listen to pop music from Mali or China or Nunavut, more rarely from France (I'm French for those who didn't figure it out), but I just rediscover the 1982 album of Alain Bashung, Play Blessures, and it's...
- Native Tongues
Uh, oh. Time for some philosophical mumbo jumbo One of the great challenges of being a musician is worrying less about how you'd like to sound, and concentrating on how you do sound. We spend years as intense listeners, trying...
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Tinariwen play guitars
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A few months ago, a reader mentioned Tinariwen, wondering why a Malian band was performing on an American TV evening show - the answer being of course "because they're good". And that is good news, it means that musical quality can sometimes be a criteria to be on a music TV show, and it even allows to grab a Grammy Award (whatever it is) once in a while.
Anyway, I like what they do with guitars! You cannot ignore that the blues scale comes from Mali and was directly transposed from the kora to the guitar - koras were not accepted onboard slave ships it seems... But it comes from southern Mali, in the north people are tuaregs and play assouf - that means blues -, and some are successfully touring around the world for a decade with this music...
© 2012, Guitarz - The Original Guitar Blog - now in its 10th year!
- Early Pil Excellent Video, Featuring A Travis Bean Wedge And An Ampeg Scroll Bass
guitarz.blogspot.com Er, the title says it all but I can give some extra details: this is Public Image Ltd's first TV, on BBC2's show The Old Grey Whistle Test in 1980, performing Poptones from the Metal Box album. You can see Keith Levene...
- Ibanez Talman Artcore Tm 81 Thinline
guitarz.blogspot.com I already told here and here how much I liked Ibanez Talmans, a short-lived nice no-nonsense guitar series from the 1990s than could have become a hit and disappeared without much legacy (but the acoustic model that still is...
- Concert
In the last months I started again to play music on stage with my band Soft Power Ensemble of Vienna, now it's time to go back to solo, it will be on August 22nd at the Klangfestival #7 in Gallneukirchen, Austria. I announced...
- More Sketches
music of the week: I easily listen to pop music from Mali or China or Nunavut, more rarely from France (I'm French for those who didn't figure it out), but I just rediscover the 1982 album of Alain Bashung, Play Blessures, and it's...
- Native Tongues
Uh, oh. Time for some philosophical mumbo jumbo One of the great challenges of being a musician is worrying less about how you'd like to sound, and concentrating on how you do sound. We spend years as intense listeners, trying...