News and Rants

Electric guitar tone wood – a myth, complete tosh. Believed by those who have bought in to it, probably at great expense. Bit of a sweeping statement. An electric guitar works on basic electro-magnetic principals, school boy physics. No amount of vibrating wood is going to add anything positive to...

COP 26 has rumbled on, under intense public scrutiny, now drawing to an impotent close. I bet you don’t know what COP stands for. I looked it up. The great and the good and the not so great and the downright corrupt and greedy, those who couldn’t give a fuck....

They say plant a tree to save the planet. Fuck that, have you seen what they do? Look at Greece, California, Siberia, Australia – Mental. All burning. Fucking dangerous things trees. Chop them all down and make loads of bog paper and guitars I say. Something we really need. When...

Another gorgeous day dawns in lockdown, early morning frost blooming on the lawn, driven back idly by the rising sun. Blue skies. Promise of a good day. Bird song, blossom on the hoary trees, dripping in the thaw. Stay indoors you fucker or you’ll catch it and die. Nature’s toying...

I was driving North the other day, proper grim. Off to pop round some granny’s attic to look at a vintage guitar. You can do that in lockdown if you sell guitars. I drive all over the place, look in attics. Grim North, then round the corner looms the Angel...