January 8, 2021 Welcome to 2021! I remember thinking as a teen that if I made it to 2000, I would be pretty old. Funny how things change… This week’s update started and ended with ...
December 25, 2020 On Christmas Day 2020 I sat down near our tree and played a few tunes that popped into my head, without any real plan. I hope you enjoy it. Happy Holidays and ...
December 18, 2020 Today I started the clip experimenting with bits and pieces of some Holiday tunes, mixed in with some random bridges and wanderings, before remembering that a couple of our members have recently ...
User avatar TGNeil Posts: 154 Contact: Contact TGNeil Status: Online 11 Dec 2020 20:44 December 11, 2020 As I started the camera today, I lapsed into a bit of channeling John Fahey with something reminiscent ...
December 4, 2020 Country Blues came up this morning with one of my students, which got me to search for some lessons I had done on that. I discovered a good way to find them ...
November 27, 2020 Gordon Lightfoot, John Fahey and Al Stewart popped into my head at the start of today’s clip. Tunes referenced included Walls, Sligo River Blues and Year Of The Cat. But the focus ...
November 20, 2020 Jorma Kaukonen’s album Quah made a big impression on me when I was a teenager, and it was great to see it mentioned on the Forum this week. I did take a ...
Pictures At An Exhibition has been on my mind lately, and tickling my fingers as well. Of course, many of us were first exposed to this by Emerson, Lake & Palmer in 1970, which was ...
November 6, 2020 Today’s playing was inspired by a couple lessons I had this week. The opening one came out of working on Gimme Shelter, which got me pondering how necessary it is to play ...
October 30, 2020 Just as I was sitting down to write out some thoughts and comments for today’s update, I was interrupted by a text from one of my oldest friends (actually the best man ...