Sam's Blog (8)

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Scary good tone, tasty chops. The total package. And I didn't know a Tele could sound like that. According to his comments, he's using Keystone pickups.

And if you dug that, head over to his website and download his all his songs for free. No joke.

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Ian Crichton, I dub thee the "Unknown Shredder". Ian plays guitar for the band Saga (and is the original guy, unlike the quitter singer, quitter keyboard players, and quitter drummers). I remember exactly one song by them: "On The Loose". I heard it yes… Continue

Late last year, Gibson unveiled the much-hyped Robot Guitar (official Gibson page). The Robot Guitar not only tunes itself (to several different tunings no less), it also practically strings itself AND corrects intonation problems. I remember thinking thi… Continue

My favorite scale to noodle around in is G major. It tastes as good in G as it does in E minor(G's natural minor). Plus it's right in the middle of the fretboard. When played in the Ionian-ish mode pictured below, I like its symmetric-ness. ((I suppose with those last three notes, it's not technically Ionian since I'm not stopping on G, but who cares?)) The fret intervals are (Low E) 2-2, (A) 2-2, (D) 1-2, (G) 1-2, (B) 2-1, (E) 2-1. ()Nice and clean

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I got this little Ibanez Mikro for my birthday. I had been looking for a junior sized guitar for my kids to play with. Half so they'd have fun, half so they'd stop abusing my Strat. I played it in Guitar Center and decided to ask for it for my birthday.

It's actually quite fun to play. It tunes to standard

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According to that Tool magazine Fast Company, Ning is taking over the world. So I had to check it out. Not sure yet exactly what Ning does that Facebook and MySpace (or any of the other thousands of social networks) don't do. Except Ning has Marc Andreessen (Netscape creator, gazillionaire) at the helm. I see many Google ads running down the right side that are non-movable and non-removable. Oh well, I'll give it a spin. Continue