March 14, 2025

A couple new lessons this week, both with Eagles connections or implications… It recently came to my attention that we had missed some important Eagles tunes in the ever expanding Totally Guitars Library (now well over 2000 songs!). That was remedied with a new lesson on After The Thrill Is Gone and the addition of the Eagles’ cover of Tom Waits’ Ol’ 55 to a lesson on Tom’s version we have had up for years.

This week’s Update started with a bit of improvising on Windy & Warm thanks to a couple students working on it recently. There was also a take on Ol’ 55 touched on, along with a bit of Led Zeppelin which crept in somehow.

You may have noticed the return of my Santa Cruz guitar, which has been MIA since it lost a battle with an errant cue ball courtesy of some young relatives at the pool table a couple months ago. A brilliant and talented luthier at The Santa Cruz Guitar Company, Darren to be specific, did a miraculous job restoring and repairing the guitar. Before and after pics are attached at the end of this video.

We are at the end of our second week of the 3-Minute 30-Day Challenge and I have really enjoyed reading about what folks are working on. We awarded our first week’s prize and there are three more to come before we pick a grand prize winner. It is not too late to jump in, details are on the TG Forum.

Enjoy the Eagles tunes and I will see you next week,

Neil