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It's getting better all the time

It’s Getting Better All The Time

When I was a kid having a treat was stuff of Sunday afternoons. Sardines on toast & an extra parcel of sea coal on the fire. – you think I’m joking. All sat in one small room, no TV, huddled round the grate, faces glowing, backs freezing, or so it...

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The Guitar

The Guitar Shop

The “Guitar Shop” intrigues me, I don’t know why as I’ve been in many in various countries around the globe. Strangely they all follow the same formulae – 100’s, if not 1000’s of guitars crammed in to all sorts of places. All carefully placed so if you so much as...

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Lee Ritenour

Lee Ritenour

Soho, Saturday afternoon. Looking round the hot sweaty queue, from my even hotter casual repose on the sunny side of Frith Street, I wondered if we were all really the same, those of us with a common interest ? Was I like them ? A bunch, or rather line, of...

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More sound stuff

More Sound Stuff…

What puzzles me about all this Vintage Sound stuff is nobody, or very few of us still breathing and in control of all essential faculties, actually know what these critters sounded like when they rolled off the belt at Fender. Here I’m referring to my earlier blog on vintage pickups,...

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In search of that vintage sound

In Search of that Vintage Sound?

Beautiful sunny day so I thought I’d spend it over the bench and stripped an early 1960’s Fender Strat pickup that’s been dead to the world for some time, despite my best efforts and customer’s lucre. Being the curious type I thought it was time to dig deep and look...

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Big Stuff Happening

Big Stuff in Middlesbrough

I‘ve just had a bowl of cereal that tasted like the smell of a pet shop. That reminded me of being a kid and made me think of this and Anish Kapoor’s plans where I grew up – What is art ? I’ve no idea. I’m not sure of the...

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1961 Strat

1961 Strat

Got my first US import due in any day… hope it fares better than the last one, posted all the way from sunny Liverpool. Watch this space. Well it did. Amazing. Must have felt like the Prisoner of Zenda with a plec instead of a spoon. Took me ages to...

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The Establishment Club

Stephen Fry – The Establishment Club

Just back from a very late but excellent night at The Establishment Club, hosted at Ronnie Scott’s. Strangely was sat next to Stephen Fry. He’s a big bloke ! Doubt he’ll remember me and didn’t get chance to flog him a guitar. We were sat right at the front but...