R.I.P. Ronald Belford Scott…

...can it really be that long. It really is 30 years since Bon Scott of AC/DC lost his life in the back of a mates car after a night on the booze. ...read the full post →

The decade isn’t…

...over yet. Still one more year to go, we start at 1 not 0. So it's just my favourite five albums of the year 2009. Old favourites, super groups and a super artist. ...read the full post →

Let the music do the…

...talking...been a lot of talk about what's happening within Aerosmith of late, Joe Perry ain't happy and says the band will continue with a new singer but Steven Tyler now says he's going nowhere. ...read the full post →

Effectology volume 4…

...the Hammond B-3 Organ. I'm having to catch up with Bill Ruppert as he email's me about another in his line of Effectology videos, so here's the sound of a Hammond Organ with just a guitar and two EHX pedals. ...read the full post →

Effectology volume 3…

...The Cello Concerto. In the next volume of his Effectology series Bill Ruppert uses just two EHX effects pedals to make his guitar sound like a cello, a few more pedals creates the concerto. ...read the full post →

Mock rock…

...that's what Whispering Bob thought back in '73. New York Dolls are still going, of course minus some original members, unlike some of the pretentious wankers, hunched over their acoustics, old Bob used enthuse over on The Old Grey Whistle Test. ...read the full post →

Year of the ‘Foot…

...Chickenfoot. In these days of economic depression the world needs a band that can just out and out rock and that band is Chickenfoot. Though Joe Satriani prefers a new amp for that Foot sound. ...read the full post →

What no mention of M&Ms…

...not even the brown ones. Van Halen seemed to have dropped that little clause from their tour rider, now they just require plenty of space and trash cans oh and some cheap bottles of wine for Eddie. ...read the full post →

Top 25 guitar riffs…

...of all time. I'm thinking no from this list that some students have come up with there's far too many missing and too many nonentities included. ...read the full post →

R.I.P. Jeff Healey…

Sad passing of the Canadian blues guitarist who lost his battle with cancer, which took his eyesight as a baby leading to his unique guitar splaying style, aged only 41. ...read the full post →

Before The Fancy Cars And Fuzzy Guitars…

...they were just that little ol’ band from Texas. Some great live videos of ZZ Top one of the great blues rock bands with Billy Gibbons playing his Pearly Gates. ...read the full post →

Seven Ages Of Rock didn’t disappoint…

New BBC show 'The Seven Ages OF Rock' didn't disappoint, I thought it wouldn't be that good and it wasn't. The first programme about Jimi Hendrix could have been so much better and the rest of the series looks just as bad. ...read the full post →

Eddie’s in rehab…

Eddie Van Halen has announced in an open letter on the official Van Halen website that he's going into rehab to sort out his problems. ...read the full post →

Eddie vs Sharon

After Sharon Osbourne sabotaged Iron Maiden's final Ozzfest show Ron Smallwood and EMI reply to the acts carried out against the band ...read the full post →

Jimi Hendrix pretended to be gay…

Jimi Hendrix pretended to be gay so he could leave the US army to play music and revolutionise the guitar ...read the full post →