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More gear photos…

 

Ready for a 5th-fret power chord ?? - Taking some more aesthetically pleasing gear photos over the next few days, plus an update on some new gizmos in the collection… view here

Get Up - again!

I recently took an online course run by a professional producer - it covered all aspects of taking a tracks from its raw recording through compression, EQ, gain-staging, reverb, saturation, balancing, mastering and more! I was never quite happy with…

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It's Been A Long Time... Get Up!

wow - that took a while! Here's a track I started on back in early 2020. It's been through various iterations - acoustic, heavy solos etc and I couldn't seem to get them all together. So over the last couple…

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Getting the band back together...

We have a new drummer!! - John (sure that won't get confusing 🙄)

So, with Bill on bass and Wayne on vocals that means Almost Famous IV is up & running!

I've just been playing around on some tracks for…

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Inspirations (1) - Lindsey Buckingham

Fleetwood Mac - can divide opinion in a room. I’ve met my fair share of haters but ever since hearing ‘Rumours’ as a young teenager - their music has captured my musical heart. Clearly Stevie Nicks appealed to the teenage…

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Studio Practice

Back at Tweeters for the first time in 18 months! Just trying out the new guitar and learning a couple of new tracks. Very rough phone recordings, playing along with 'Chasing Cars' and 'All You Ever Wanted'

Videos here...

Acoustic in the works

working on our acoustic setlist - here's an impromptu recording on my phone, taken in Bill's front room yesterday evening. Certainly not the finished article, but shows promise - I think ;)

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Back to the 80s

So, visitors to the site have asked for a little more 80's in their lives! For a guitarist, there is a huge range of choices - lot's of hair-metal out there (and I'll be covering some of that in the…

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