Love MUSIC GEAR?! Then you've got Serious G.A.S.!!
Happy New Year, everyone!! Here in the first days of 2018 I’m rarin’ to go, ready to dish out to you all some hot, fresh music gear content to rock your world! New days; new months; new opportunities for all-surrounding G.A.S. Whoot!! Let’s jump into the bangin’ fray! David Lee Roth wrote in the lyric …
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So, Christmas and New Years Eve 2017 are now left in a crazy haze behind us. Hope yours was great! Hope your music G.A.S. was passed with brightly wrapped presents that gave you the “Ahhhh…!” of sweet Gear Acquisition Syndrome relief! Ahead of us now is a great big open sky to fly into: live gigs; …
A Classic Rock station here in Detroit has a tendency to play the Boz Scaggs song “Lowdown” a lot. I like it; it’s a great song with great players. In fact, most of the backing musicians on that album soon after formed Toto, a band which is still out touring, for a brand new album, right now, forty-one …
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Noela Evans wrote: “Challenge is a dragon, with a gift in its mouth – tame the dragon and the gift is yours!” Since 2012, I’ve made a musician’s addendum to that: Tame a dragon and your MUSIC WILL SOAR! That’s because I am the glad owner of a Jay Turser Serpent Electric Guitar, model JT-200! I call …
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Every Christmas the same uncertainty surfaces about my musician friends: “I know she’s into music, but… what do I get her??!” “You’re a musician too – what can I get him that he’d like??” Well, those are excellent questions, so here are hand-picked, tried-and-true ‘perfect gifts’ in 2018 for your melody- makers. They’re not only going …
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It’s the second night of a beautiful, bright, fall supermoon over Detroit tonight. My computerized telescope is at the back door, ready to capture some video footage as it climbs into the sky and struts its stuff for those of us who care to look on. The skies have always pulled at me, like music, …
This morning at 8:30 a.m. my family was awakened from Sunday morning sleep-in by a boom outside. A loud boom! A boom that at first we thought was thunder, but then… it lasted way to long for that, and just seemed… bigger. My wife immediately got out of bed and looked out the window. Clear …
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