In 1968 the Beatles learned a bit about fingerpicking from Donovan while they were in India for a short time. This resulted in a much more refined guitar sound for a few songs on the ...
Led Zeppelin’s *Tangerine *has been one of the leading requested songs here at TG for quite some time.
*Touch Of Grey*was a song that the Grateful Dead starting playing live in 1982 but became a hit 5 years later when it was released on In The Dark.
John Fogerty’s 1984 come back album, *Centerfield *brought him back into the limelight with a bang.
By now everybody should be aware of the incredible talents of Ian Anderson, on many levels.
*We Used To Know*was released on the second Jethro Tull album, Stand Up, as they were starting to head out of their blues roots and into a more progressive direction.
*Birthday*is a classic example of taking a simple riff, dropping it into a 12-bar blues format, adding some catchy vocals over a short chord progression, throwing in a little drum break and lead guitar fill, ...
One of the bands that really helped define the Psychedelic Sound of the Sixties was The Byrds. Their early line up with Roger (Jim) McGuinn, David Crosby, Chris Hillman, and Gene Clark produced a defining ...
The album George Harrison was working on in his last days was Brainwashed, and it was released posthumously in 2002.
George Harrison and his old band mates were masters of interesting chord progression, many times combining chords from multiple keys into one section of a song, and other times reaching out pretty far from conventional ...