Actual Tone Dreams

Anyone else have actual tone dreams? I mean, actual ones. Not, ‘It’s my dream to play a ‘54 Stratocaster’, but ‘I had a dream last night that I was playing out of 4 Matchless amps at one time.’
Ya. I do. I know I shouldn’t……but I do.

That’s a ’70’s Gibson ES-335. And that’s the guitar I had a [...]

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Best Thing I’ve Ever Heard………Ever!!!!

Okay, okay, okay. You’re so not going to believe me. This is just…..okay, wow. I can’t even say this; I don’t know what to say, so here goes.
Thanks to the wonders of gearpage, I have just discovered that Steven Seagal has produced blues albums. And yes, that is ‘albums’, plural. And yes, he both plays guitar and sings [...]

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Boss PH3 & Out of the Guitar Center Loop

I know, I know, another Guitar Center post. But seriously, folks, you walk into Guitar Center and it’s just a blog waiting to happen. It’s like walking into a used car dealership if all the car salesman thought they were famous Indy 500 drivers. And if they played 6 bad versions of Metallica’s ‘Master of Puppets’ in 6 [...]

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Zendrive is Smashing my Overdrive Shootout Dreams

If you’ve been reading through my last few long-winded posts, wondering to yourself, ‘Is there ever going to be another gear review?’, then you have probably read about my plans for another overdrive shootout.

(Mmmm…. Tombstone shootout. Think they would have been happier then if they had electric guitar tone to soothe them and then instead of doing real [...]

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Worship Performances…..and Loneliness

(Love this photo.)
Ever get really excited on Saturday night because you know there’s a huge solo (or perhaps an anti-solo, as I prefer to play) coming up in one of the songs for the Sunday morning service and you’re the one who gets to play it on your instrument? And then you perform it…. and then you [...]

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New Site for Worship Musicians

Alright, I tried to do this post about two weeks ago…..and then blog.com decided to be retarded a lot and so I deleted this post thinking it was the trouble, but it definitely wasn’t. So, let’s try again.
There’s a new discussion board that Joe from gearpage started, and it’s for worship musicians. And it’s called ‘Worship Musicians.’ And it’s at www.worshipmusicians.com . [...]

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The Journey to my Amp Tech

I am very particular about who fixes my gear. I play a lot of handmade and rare stuff (yes, I know, I’m a boutique snob….but hopefully I’m an open-minded and friendly boutique snob who realizes that he’s still not that good of a guitarist and that most people sound better than he does even though they don’t play the [...]

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Hope

My complete apologies for posting this randomness, and not a guitar review, or tone rant, or something to help with ‘guitar for worship’, seeing as that is, of course, the actual name of the blog….not ‘whatever I feel like posting.’ But, I did really feel like posting this.
I have an unhealthy love for a band named U2, [...]

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Dumb

I seriously should have gone to wordpress for my blog. Blog.com can’t figure out how to wrap lines….it used to…..now it won’t…..so I’m having to go through all my old posts and manually ‘return out’ every line like I’m on a type-writer. Much fun. Not so much. Thanks to everyone for their patience when reading a post and not [...]

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The Exception to the Rule

I have this rule about playing any instrument for any type of setting….that means guitar, piano, bass, drums, etc. for concerts, shows, worship sets, personal practice, etc. (Sorry, just really wanted to get the point across that for me this is a ‘universal statement’, choosing to blindly ignore Charles Dickens’ statement ‘The broader a man’s statement, the narrower his mind’.)
The [...]

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