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The Blues Scale

When I learned to play guitar my first lick was probably Shaking All Over by Chad Allen and the Expressions, later to become the Guess Who. It was was a blues scale of sorts that went G, E, D, B, A, G, E, D and then groove was: E, E then up an octave E, [...]

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Crippled Inside – Is It About McCartney?

“You can wear a mask and paint your face You can call yourself the human race You can wear a collar and a tie One thing you can’t hide Is when you’re crippled inside” John Lennon: Crippled Inside from the Album, Imagine When you look at the personalities and follow the chronology the break-up of [...]

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Live Music, Like Gold, Is Where You Find It

I was out in Calgary recently and saw a band called The Beautiful Unknown from Toronto. A bunch os kids, really, but boy could they play. Their stuff was all original, some “Green Day-ish” style songs and this was okay with me. I was probably the oldest guy in the place! As I looked around [...]

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From Bricklayer to a Trogg in One Day

In 1966 Reg Presley (no relation to Elvis) was a bricklayer when the song With A Girl Like You came into his head. His band, The Troggs, had been signed by CBS with help from Kinks manager, Larry Page. And much like The Kinks they spent a lot of time fighting amongst themselves. Troggs was [...]

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