02005-02-16 | Uncategorized
The white Gibson guitar has been bought and this morning I remembered this:
In 1983 (give or take a couple of years…) my band played at a club in Manhattan and after soundcheck I wanted to change strings. Even though I had been playing the guitar for a while I had never looked at the machine heads very closely, but that day the light must have been such that the lines of the crank showed up very defined.
…and to my amazement I found that each tuner had a built in crank that could be flipped out and used to tighten new strings! I thought that was the height of luxury! The photo shows the cranks flipped open, but they completely disappear inside each machine head…
02005-02-15 | Uncategorized
Here are links to the first couple of auctions:
Auction of Gibson 335 and auction of GrooveTubes amp.
02005-02-14 | Uncategorized
Canton exposes a large red heart. That’s lovely, now put it back where it belongs! Happy Velentine’s Day everyone.
02005-02-14 | Uncategorized
Music: Journey – Ali Akbar Khan
Journey is a beautiful album. Wonderful melodies carry each song. The instrument is a sarod and Mr. Khan is one of the masters of that fretless instrument. I attended a concert by Mr. Khan in Santa Fe around 1991 and met him afterwards. There was talk of recording some music together, but my schedule was crazy at that time and it never worked out.
A few years ago I met another great sarod master from India and was invited to come to India to record some music together. The problem is that while my schedule is not as crazy as it was in the early nineties, I usually rather stay in my cave and work by myself. There is so much swirling around in my head that I want to express – over time the music in my head becomes more, not less…
