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What's new about me is new, as I hope this link can show. I haven't asked for an SST certificate, so I can't be an https. A warning my tech can't remove was added right away, and my tech added a Firefox statement saying it's secure. That's criminal activity following me from my previous home...

When I heard about Solo Music in Toronto selling do-it-yourself guitar kits, I took a look. What surprised me was the prices for the left-handed models they had. A right-handed Strat-style was $139 and the lefty was $149. I'm used to anything left-handed costing twice as much as a righty...

I'm watching Frederik Magle on You Tube now more than anywhere else, thinking it's time I showed up with something new in his website. While some of these paintings have been displayed here before, all of them have been painted on this last few weeks. And while I'd love to keep fonting away...

This demonstration also describes what is said to be the best acoustics of any church, saying it has eight seconds of, what I see as a combination of echo and reverb.

I am here, on a world stage, typing about a Danish and global musical artist, Frederik Magle. At one point, making a video of me playing piano, where I would mention Frederiks' name, I phoned the Danish Embassy in Toronto to learn how to pronounce it properly. Frederik as in Frederik, and Magle...

A new northern Canadian band, Falling Ice, is inspiring other artists. You still have to beware of Falling Ice, especially when we're hanging out, pointing down at you. baby... babeeee... oh baby baby, you're gonna make the water drip, drip drip drip down my icicle... Hey! Where'd that Robert...

Oh! This is interesting already. I just riffed off about psychics for an American talk show host, who was doing a program about psychic fraud. This is the first time here I cut and paste something I word processed elsewhere, thinking yeah... I think it's an interesting read... and when I log in...

This link is for a news article about the rise of autism in the United States. It says in 2,000, one in every 150 Americans was diagnosed with a form of autism. Now, in 2018. it's one in every 59, saying it's a surge that the health system isn't prepared for. Down Syndrome was something that...

If Eric Clapton and his British Invasion cohorts weren't shoving him in my face all the time, I wouldn't be up, not in arms, but with my fretting fingers. Now he's in packs of Ernie Ball strings. This is a video made in Copenhagen, Denmark, and is seen as the best reference for these times. I...

No... no... I'm not going to riff off about this use of marbles. I'm pretty sure you'll be riffing off in your own mind right away.

This is an easy question for me because I'm my favorite artist and I'm updating all day. I'm known for wandering around with an electric guitar and portable amplifier, both strapped over my shoulder, singing songs and, as there divided opinions about this, I'm either just making up my own words...

This article says it all. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2191814-we-may-finally-know-what-causes-alzheimers-and-how-to-stop-it/

"You Oughta Know" was a pop-rock recording that climbed the charts almost explosively, the combination of anger, sexual content, and what was seen as empowerment for women, being a very potent brew for North American audiences at that time. Alanis was born in Ottawa, Canada, and performed as a...

Good evening everyone, especially Marcus and Mora Amaro La Loba. I tried to send you a private message so there was more of a chance of you seeing this, something I first posted in a thread here that I began, thinking you might not see it. But a pop-up said you weren't receiving private...

okay... okay... you might not see me as having the most serious musical intent, but I received a chromatic harmonica as a gift from a friend in British Columbia, who remembered what I said about my harmonica as a child. He included it in his box of gifts that he sent for his relatives here...

This video about a contrabassoon had a strange effect on me. I imagine that goes with playing, maybe even just with owning, this imposing, if not impaling instrument. I used to date a bassoonist for The Ottawa Symphony and The Ottawa Symphony Orchestra, so I know bassoons. One of my first...

A hologram as the star of a stage show isn't new to America, but it's been hip-hop stars with all their electronics that first used it. This video and the comments of the people who were there should be enough to start a debate. As a musician I never played with samples or loops and wouldn't...

Is "Prog Head" too retro progressive to be able to comment on new progressive rock? I've been reading a lot of Prog Heads' comments about progressive rock bands, but I never really noticed it was all about the originators of progressive rock, and all the other new bands that imitate them, or...

Oh! I would have thought this is a thread topic I should have started right away. That's how I play, basically, with a right-handed neck on a left-handed body. When I was a teenager, I was playing my brothers' acoustic guitar, my neighbours' acoustic guitar, my other neighbours' electric guitar...

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and rock band fans everywhere. This is a cut and paste of some comments I made at the end of a reply, being inspired by seeing an "electric guitar orchestra", and rock bands playing with symphonies. I see this new genre of musical performance as being worthy...