Category Archives: Music

While browsing the auction sites, I came across this fantastic website. It’s an absolutely fabulous slice of rock and roll history. If you love rock or if you’re a collector or historian, then check these guys out!
www.rockstarsguitars.com/

I just recently got interested in auctions, after Eric Clapton auctioned off his most famous guitars Brownie and Blackie. Also, George Harrison’s rosewood Fender Telecaster, and then John Lennon’s piano that he composed the song “Imagine” on. So I started browsing through sites like Christie’s, and found some amazing things.
Keith Moon’s Premier five-piece drum kit from 1968 sold for $215,000 in London’s pop memorabilia auction in September 2004, which set another world record for the highest price paid for a set of drums at an auction.
Christie’s set a new world auction record for Eric Clapton’s 1956 Fender Stratocaster [...]

The House of Blues just opened in Dallas; last week on the 8th of May. Dan Aykroyd, aka Elwood Blues of The Blues Brothers, kicked off the debut party. The Hard Rock Cafe closed it’s doors, and then the House of Blues opened up. I’ve always said that when one door closes, another door opens.
It’s just good karma, man.
Top40-charts.com reports:
Live Nation, the world’s largest live music company, opened it’s 11th House of Blues in Dallas, Texas. The new venue includes a 1,625 capacity music hall, a 400 seat restaurant, special events facilities, a company store and a Foundation Room [...]

If you forget the title of a song, there’s a new way to jog your memory—www.midomi.com.
This site allows you to find a song by typing some lyrics or humming a portion of it into it’s recording mechanism. Then it provides you with the title and a means by which to buy the song (if you are masochistically inclined, that is.)  Think of it as a public service for earworm sufferers everywhere.
found in…
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/career/?p=110
This just goes to show you never know where you’ll find the good stuff…usually not where you expect.

The 30th Anniversary of the Dallas International Guitar Festival happened last weekend at Dallas Market Hall, and the show was awesome as always! There were acoustic and electric guitars, all kinds of amps, vintage gear, showcase and custom shop models, and lots of cool bass guitars.
Some really great players were there too! I saw Eric Johnson and Rocky Athas play last Saturday and they were both great.

This is a working songlist for our jam band.

I’ve discovered a cool new streaming audio website called finetune.com.

Eric Claptonshow in Dallas on February 28, 2007.

The blues are an essential part of music history and touches every genre, be it rock and roll, jazz and even country music. It’s very much a social thing, and KNON Blues Radio is a hub of blues activity in North Texas. The two hour show is on the air five nights a week, from six to eight pm, broadcasting from Dallas.
There’s a different host every weeknight…JMAC on Mondays plays all styles of blues, from the classic years of the early 20′s and 30′s, through country blues and 50′s Chicago, up to today’s contemporary artists. There’s Big [...]